Germany/ 5.3 Sector specific legislation  

5.3.8 Other areas of culture specific legislation

Additional laws of relevance for culture include Article 96 of the Federal Law for the Expellees: both the Federal Government and the Länder are obliged to preserve the cultural traditions of those regions in Central and Eastern Europe which were formerly inhabited by Germans. In 2000, a "New Concept for the Investigation and Presentation of German Culture and History in Eastern Europe" was developed in an effort to match this task with the changed political and social conditions after the collapse of the socialist state systems.

The Federal Archive Law – and corresponding laws of the 16 Länder – was enacted in the 1980s in order to regulate the protection, preservation, development and utilisation of archive goods.

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