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1) Appoint one member for the institution’s management board;
2) Give opinion on the nominated members of the institution’s management board;
3) Give opinion on the electoral procedure for the election of the institution’s director.
If more than one National Council decides that an institution has particular importance in the field of culture in preserving, improving and
developing specificity and national identity of a national minority, the National Councils in question shall each appoint their member on the
management board referred to in paragraph 1, point 1 of this Article.
Other competencies in the field of culture
Article 18
The National Council shall:
1) Determine which institutions and events in the field of culture bear special importance in preserving, improving and developing specificity
and national identity of a particular national minority;
2) Create a national minority’s cultural development strategy;
3) Determine which movable and immovable cultural goods are of particular importance for a national minority;
4) Start a procedure before the competent body or institution for defining the status of movable and immovable cultural goods protected by the
law and having particular importance for a national minority;
5) Suggest taking measures for the prevention, reparation and reconstruction of the cultural goods referred to in paragraph 1, point 4 of this
Article;
6) Give opinion and recommendations regarding space planning and the design of urban development plans in the local self-government unit
where cultural goods referred to in paragraph 1, point 3 of this Article are situated;
7) Suggest that the implementation of space and urban development plans be stalled if these are considered detrimental to cultural goods
referred to in paragraph 1, point 3 of this Article;
8) Give the previous opinion to the competent body in the process of issuing a licence to dislocate the immovable cultural goods referred to in
paragraph 1, point 3 of this Article to another site;
9) Give opinion on the establishment or closing procedure for libraries or their organisational units, containing collections of books in a national
minority language;
10) Suggest that the resources be allocated through open calls from the budget of the Republic, autonomous province or local self-government
units to national minority institutions, events and associations in the field of culture;
11) Propose at least one candidate for a joint list of candidates in the elections for the National Council for Culture;
12) Nominate its representative in the National Council for Culture, who shall participate in its work without power of decision making when
issues important for the national minority culture are discussed;
13) Rule on other issues entrusted to it by law, normative act of the autonomous province or local self-government unit.
4. Competences in the field of mass media
Right of establishment
Article 19
The National Council itself or in co-operation with another legal personality may establish in line with law institutions and business organisations
for the purpose of exercising newspaper-publishing and radio-television broadcasting activities, printing and reproducing of the recorded media,
and shall have rights and obligations of the founder.
The Republic, autonomous province or local self-government unit as founders of businesses organisations and institutions in the field of public
information which entirely or predominantly communicate information in a national minority language may, in agreement with the National
Council, delegate their right of establishment, in its entirety or to a degree, to the National Council.
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