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State administration bodies
The bodies of heritage protection are, according to Act No. 20/1987 Coll., competent for issuing binding opinions
concerning listed heritage elements within the nominated property. The municipal authorities issue binding judgements
B. ANALYTICAL SECTION OF THE MANAGEMENT PLAN
with extended powers. These are the regional authority and their superior body, the Ministry of Culture.
Ministry of Culture
The Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic is the supreme executive body of national heritage protection and the
body for appeal against decisions given by the regional authorities. The Ministry prepares departmental conceptual
measures and assigns financial means for the restoration of cultural heritage assets from public resources.

Regional Office of Ústecký Region
The Regional Office of the Ústecký Region controls the implementation of national heritage protection through its
department of heritage conservation. The office communicates with the owners of cultural heritage assets, such
as municipalities and legal or physical entities. Their tasks include the implementation of their specific authority in the
determined field of national heritage protection. They manage appeal proceedings against decisions and binding
judgements issued by the municipality authorities with extended power and authority in the field of heritage protection
within the region.

A municipality with extended power
For the protection of values of the nominated property, the department of land-use planning and heritage conservation
fulfils the tasks of a body for national heritage protection as follows:

- it applies judgements to land-use planning documentation for the whole territory of the property. For the nominated
property this authority is transferred to the Ministry of Culture and the Regional Office in Ústí nad Labem,
- in matters concerning the whole property and the individual protected historical structures, it implements supervision
over their restoration and during any construction: changes, terrain or greenery modifications and the placing
or removal of historical equipment,
- it regulates building activities and any significant changes related to maintenance work, and changes on other real
estates, within the nominated property that are not designated cultural heritage assets, as well as any possible
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- it may impose penalties to physical and legal entities for breach of obligations imposed by the Act on National Heritage
Protection.

Within the nominated property, there are two municipalities with extended power:

A municipality with extended power: Žatec
This body performs national heritage protection for the area of component part 01:
Saaz Hop Landscape Heritage Zone (for parts of the property in the cadastral areas of Trnovany by Žatec, Bezděkov
by Žatec, Lišany by Žatec, Zálužice upon Ohře, Stekník, Rybňany, Liběšice by Žatec, Dobříčany)

Stekník Rural Heritage Zone
Cultural heritage assets within component part 01, including the Stekník Chateau

for the area of component part 02:
Žatec Urban Heritage Reserve
Žatec Urban Heritage Zone
and their protective belts
Cultural heritage assets within component part 02
A municipality with extended power: Louny
This body performs national heritage protection for the area of component part 01
Saaz Hop Landscape Heritage Zone (for parts of the property in the cadastral areas of Hradiště upon Ohře and Strkovice).