Central
Ministry of Culture and Monuments Protection
- Defining the state cultural policy and programmes;
- Overseeing the legal entity of public law created in theatre, music, cinema, literature, folk law and art education
- Protecting cultural heritage objects and monuments ;
- Supporting cultural organisations and institutions;
- Supervising with the Cultural Heritage Board in its work to protect listed buildings and sites and implement programmes;
- Permitting and protecting archelogy works
- Managing the public library system and its financing
Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development
- Supporting tourism with the legal entity of public law,
Georgian National Tourism Administration;
- Managing 18 Tourism centers.
National Archives of Georgia ( a legal entity of public law supervised by Ministry of Justice)
- Preserve and conserve written, visual and audio documents
Government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara and Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia
- Cultural heritage protection
Responsible authorities/bodies
- Georgian National Tourism Administration;
- National Archives of Georgia
- Ministry of Culture and Monuments Protection
- Government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara and Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia
- Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development
Local
- Implementing State Culture policy and funding cultural programmes;
- Protecting and developing of the local identity and creative activities ;
- Maintaining, reconstructing, rehabilitating local cultural monuments and deciding on the placement of new monuments ;
- Constructing and providing for municipality-owned libraries, club facilities, cinemas, museums, theatres, exhibition halls, sports and recreational facilities;
- Constructing, developing and maintaining local tourism infrastructure .
Responsible authorities/bodies
Sources
- Georgia Country Report in 2013-2014 Preparatory Action ‘Culture in the EU's External Relations’
- Georgian National Tourism Administration;
- Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia
- Government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara
- Grzegorz Boguta 2005. A Strategy for Libraries in Georgia”; Council of Europe:
- Law on Culture
- Law on Protection of Cultural Heritage
- Law on Tourism and resorts:
- Ministry of Culture and Monuments Protection
- Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development
- National Archives of Georgia
