URBAN HERITAGE: Fundamentals, procedures and justifications for listing and re-ratification
isting, re-ratification, procedures, urban heritage, special law no.25, heritage and preservation.
The Special Law no.25 of 1937 is the oldest legislation in force in Brazil, it regulates the policy for the protection of national heritage. Among the main limitations present in this law is the lack of clear procedures for the application of the instrument that lists propetys as national heritage in Brazil, generating legal uncertainty in the act of protection and preservation heritages, which may imply that these processes are re-ratified. The IPHAN's “List of Listed Assets and Listing Processes in Progress” (2021) presents 89 protected urban areas, of which 15 were re-ratified and are grouped into nine processes that were mapped in this research. Starting from the hypothesis that there are no clear and explicit procedures for the instruction of a listing process in Brazil, it was investigated whether procedures can be empirically identified in the group of selected processes. Such processes were evaluated based on nine objective criteria and classified as well or poorly instructed and, based on the well- instructed, contributions were extracted for a possible specific national legislation for the preservation of procedures.