Course on Heritage Law and Regulations

Starting tomorrow, January 15, at 6 pm, at the Pousada de Mong Ha Conference Room (2nd floor), is a Course on Heritage Law and Regulations, as part of the Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao. Organised by the Legal and Judicial Training Centre and the International Law Office, this course will have as speakers Nuno Portas, Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Oporto and renowned international specialist in areas such as urban rehabilitation and heritage protection, Ricardo Rodrigues, architect and member of the Municipal Office of the Historical Centre of Guimarães, Francisca Abreu, architect and town councillor responsible for Culture at the Municipal Council of Guimarães, and Stephan Chan, Vice-President of the Cultural Institute of the MSAR and responsible for the area of heritage protection. The subjects that will be discussed during the six sessions are: The Process of Urban Rehabilitation – Difficulties and Contradictions – Some Portuguese Examples; Talking about Cities: Macao as a Scenario; The Rehabilitation of the City of Guimarães (Introduction, The Local Office for the Historical Centre, The Plan, Criteria for Intervention); Cultural Promotion: City and Citizenship; Macau – A World Heritage City. This course will take place daily, between 6 pm and 8:30 pm, until January 20, and will specifically target legal advisors, specialists in the area of culture, architects, historians and groups of people linked with Heritage, having already an enrolment of more than sixty local participants. The Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao, in which this course is incorporated, has as its main objective the “Consolidation of the Macao Legal System” and is currently in its fifth and final year, taking place until the end of this coming February. The total budget for the programme is of 1.980.000 euros, shared in equal parts by the European Union and Macao. The co-ordination of the Co-operation Programme is at the responsibility of the International Law Office, being the organisation of the pertaining actions ensured by several other entities of the MSAR’s Government, namely the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Legal Affairs Bureau, the Economic Services and the Institute of European Studies, other than the International Law Office itself.