We present selected paragraphs of the Federal Act on the Protection of Monuments Due to Their Historic, Artistic or Other Cultural Significance or Monument Protection Act that represent essential information and guidelines regarding issues of preservation and protection, permission, investigation, ownership and signage in Austria. The original version of the act is from 1923 and was the object of several changes until the last one in 2020.

Two important laws on heritage protection have been adopted in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2002 and 2008.

The Cultural Heritage Act in Bulgaria is from 2009, with some later changes.

The field of cultural heritage protection is in Croatia regulated by the Law on protection and preservation of cultural heritage (Zakon o zaštiti i očuvanju kulturnih dobara) from 1999, with several later modifications.

The Czech Act on State Landmark Conservation No. 20/1987 (Zákon o státní památkové péči č.20/1987 Sb.), with succeeding changes, defines an archaeological find as follows (§ 23, point 1): “an archaeological find means an object (a set of objects) that is a document or remnant of the life of man and his activities from the beginning of his development up to modern times and that survived, usually underground.” There are no definitions for archaeological parks.

Due to the federal structure of the country the responsibility for culture and cultural heritage is not on national but on regional level, which means that respective laws are developed and executed on the level of 16 Bundesländer or federal states.

The Act No. LXIV of 2001 on Protection of Cultural Heritage defines archaeological sites as follows: “clearly defined geographical areas on which the elements of archaeological heritage can be found in their primary relations and which have been registered by the Office”.

In relation to the topics of the ArcheoDanube project the principal act to consider in Moldova is the Law no. 218 from 17.09.2010 on the preservation of the archaeological heritage of the Republic of Moldova, related to several other bylaws.

The Government Ordinance 43/2000 on the protection of the archaeological heritage and the declaration of archaeological sites as areas of national interest and the Law 422/2001 on the protection of historical monuments are the principal legislative acts in Romania affecting issues concerning ARCHEDANUBE project.