Guarantees for the protection of cultural heritage in Algeria

Abstract

Since its independence, Algeria has enacted laws on the cultural sector to manage the infrastructure inherited from France and to regulate a sector that has become strategically important from an ideological point of view for a newly independent state. Algeria was one of the first countries to sign the World Heritage Convention in 1972, a major milestone in the protection of cultural heritage. The Algerian legislator has established general rules and created bodies and institutions to protect and promote the nation's cultural heritage in general and its cultural properties in particular, as they are important indicators of the country's history - past, present and future - and a strategic factor for economic development. In view of its national and international importance, it has therefore established legal and institutional guarantees for its protection.