The Approval of the Ministry of Culture, a Means of Preserving the Heritage Attributes in the Process of Intervention on Historical Monuments

The paper analyses the issue of the approval/consent, documents issued by the Ministry of Culture through its specialized departments and decentralized public services, in the context of carrying out intervention works on historical monuments, implicitly of protecting the heritage component. Constituting a filter with official, legal value, guaranteeing that under the conditions of respecting the rigors stipulated by the matter of the technical documentation that was the basis for substantiating the fulfilment of its legal requirements, then the quality of the works carried out should simultaneously respond to the requirements of preserving the authenticity of the built heritage and those of increasing the lifespan of the building and/ or adapting it to its current functional requirements. The study analyses the significance of the approval issued by the Ministry of Culture for intervention works on historical monuments, the multifactorial determinants that contribute to the approval decision, the supporting specialized documentation, the main barriers that can distort or alter its issue, some proposals and future lines of study that could contribute to its efficiency.