Safeguarding measures at national level worldwide

　　Croatia

　　The Law on the Protection and Preservation on Cultural Property (1999)
The law explicitly includes, along with "mobile and immobile" cultural properties, the "forms and phenomena of human spiritual creativity".

　　Cyprus

　　Copyright
Copyright Law No. 59, December 1976, as amended by Law No. 63/77, October 1977, and Law No. 18(1)/93, January 1994
Copyright (Competent Authority) Regulation No. 249/77
Amendment Law Nos. 54(1)/1999, June 1999 and 12(1)/2001, February 2001
Copyright (Amendment) Bill under consideration

　　Hungary

　　The Hungarian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, headed by a Secretary of State, is responsible for Folk Art and for Intangible Cultural Heritage. This ministry was created in 1998 on the basis of Law 140/1997, which establishes the public responsibility to "guard and protect" cultural heritage, and establishes measures for the protection of "communal culture".
Intangible heritage is included in the so called "Cultural Law and Cultural Policy" document. The National Basic Education Plan establishes the teaching of folk art traditions as compulsory. Intangible cultural heritage is taught also at Folk High Schools and at universities.

　　Japan

　　Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties (1950)
Intangible cultural properties first came under legal protection.
Under the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties, cultural properties are classified into the following five categories:
1. Tangible cultural properties
2. Intangible cultural properties
3. Folk-cultural properties
4. Monuments
5. Groups of historic buildings