Analysis of Law 3/1999, of March 10, on Aragonese Cultural Heritage: the need for a new legal text

This work is fundamentally a legal and formal analysis of the current Aragonese Cultural Heritage Law, or, Law 3/1999, of 10 March; so the main documentary source has obviously been its corpus of law. Additionally, and for a better understanding, references are made to European, Spanish and regional regulations. These theoretical tools, which serve to reveal several essential problems, have been used in order to observe the practical application, and to indicate or draw attention to what extent the law and its objectives have been fulfilled. The final purpose is to describe the positive and improvable aspects, with special emphasis on technical deficiencies, undeveloped issues, those that should be present in a future law and those noteworthy from a legal perspective. In addition, a reflection on cultural heritage in Aragon is considered, in particular, its most important modifications and the laws that affect the regulation of our cultural heritage. The study of various regional laws allows us to analyse the different models of asset protection, as well as their categorisation, all of which is summarised as a proposal. Finally, and as a consequence of this examination, conclusions are drawn with a view to proposing a reflection for a new legal text.