Resumen de The treatment of religious heritage under Austrian law
The law on the Protection of Cultural Heritage regulates the classification of cultural heritage and the restrictions which apply thereto. It provides for some particular accommodation for religious heritage. The most outstanding is a claim for legally recognised Religious Societies to have modifications necessitated by liturgical provisions permitted by the competent authority. The two tier system of religious communities challenges this and other exceptions. The exclusión of registered Confessional Communities appers -at least partially- constitutionally doubtful. The same applies to the Law on the Restitution of Unlawfully Exported Cultural Objects whose scope of application even differentiates between the two levels of religious communities.
