Vitalie Bârcă, Câteva observații privind administrarea cetăților dacice din Munții Orăștiei înscrise în Lista patrimoniului mondial UNESCO / A few notes on the management of the Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains inscribed on the World Heritage List

In 1990, Romania signed the Convention concerning the protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 1972. Nevertheless, the effective enforcement of the Convention occurred only in 2000, when the government approved measures for the protection of the historical monuments on the World Heritage List. After 2000, various laws on the management, preservation and protection of the monuments on the World Heritage List were issued. Some of the provisions of these laws have not been applied or complied with, which made that some of the Dacian fortresses lacked to have a legal administrator, further resulting in the monuments decay. Presently, there are no management plans for six Dacian fortresses. In addition to this lack of management plans there is the lack of managers for these monuments, but also the lack of management plans and minimal short-term strategies that would solve stringent issues.