The agency, to be headed by Gábor Virágos, will be funded with monies available from the National Infrastructure Development Company, the Vásárhelyi Plan and local museums.
Virágos said the agency would operate with at most twenty people to work out a standard system for documenting and cataloguing archaeological finds. The agency will be supported by central budget funding as well as by fees from companies that build at sites which must first be excavated. The agency will operate with a fee schedule in order to avoid disputes over excavation costs with investors, he added.
The construction of motorways as well as other infrastructure developments in Hungary has led to a boom in the field of archaeology, Schneider noted, adding that with the big tasks at hand have also come legal, institutional and financing problems.
Source: Múlt-kor / Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
