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This Law shall regulate protection and state management of protection of immovable cultural properties, located within the territory and territorial waters of the Republic of Lithuania, and according to right of ownership, belonging to the state, local governments, religious organizations and other legal and natural persons. Immovable cultural property means structures of cultural and public significance, their parts and groups, complexes, clusters and sites, which shall be registered according to the procedure prescribed by this Law. The State Commission for Cultural Heritage Protection shall be the institution responsible to the Republic of Lithuania Seimas with regard to formulation of the state policy on protection of state monuments and management of the implementation of this policy. Functions of the State Commission for Cultural Heritage Protection shall be as follows: 1) to form state policy and strategy on protection of cultural properties; 2) to evaluate programs that implement the policy and strategy on protection of cultural properties; etc. The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania shall approve, upon the recommendation of the Government of Lithuania, a list of historical, archaeological and cultural objects of state significance. In order to protect the structures and their clusters, groups and areas that have been included in the Immovable Cultural Property Register of the Republic of Lithuania, from external influence and to preserve their surroundings, the Department of Cultural Heritage Protection shall establish individual protection zones.
