Introduction
 

  Paulina Florjanowicz
 

1. Trajectories towards a knowledge-producing contract archaeology. 
   Kristian Kristiansen
    

2. Challenging attitudes – delivering public benefit. 
   Adrian Olivier
    

3. From Valletta to Faro with a stopover in Brussels. International legal and policy background for archaeology or simply the understanding of heritage at the European level
   Paulina Florjanowicz
   
   Session 1 Setting the scene
    

4. A survey of heritage management in Germany, with particular reference to Saxony-Anhalt
   Konstanze Geppert and Harald Meller
    

5. The organisation of Czech archaeology – a socialist legal system applied in a market economy
   Jan Mařik
    

6. Archaeological research in the Slovak Republic – positives and negatives.
   Matej Ruttkay, Peter Bednar, Ivan Cheben and Branislav Kovar
    

7. French preventive archaeology: administrative organisation, role of the stakeholders and control procedures.
   Bernard Randoin
    

8. A view from Turkey on the Valletta and Faro Conventions: effectiveness, problems and the state of affairs. 
   Mehmet Ozdoğan and Zeynep Eres
    

9. Everything you always wanted to know about commercial archaeology in the Netherlands.
   Marten Verbruggen
   
   Session 2 Balancing stakeholders
    

10. Scotland and a ‘national conversation’.
    Rebecca H Jones
     

11. The General Directorate of Cultural Heritage’s competencies in the context of safeguarding and promoting the Portuguese archaeological heritage.
    
    Maria Catarina Coelho

12. Working for commercial clients: the practice of development-led archaeology in the UK.
    Dominic Perring
     

13. Balancing stakeholders in the Netherlands. A plea for high-quality municipal archaeology
    Dieke Wesselingh
     

14. The legal basis and organisation of rescue archaeology in Poland
    Michał Grabowski
     

15. Preventive archaeology in Wallonia: perspectives
    Alain Guillot-Pingue
    
    Session 3 Assuring quality
     

16. Is everybody happy? User satisfaction after ten years of quality management in development-led archaeology in Europe
    Monique H. van den Dries
     

17. Challenges and opportunities for disseminating archaeology in Portugal: different scenarios, different problems
    Ana Catarina Sousa
     

18. From Valletta to Faro – avoiding a false dichotomy and working towards implementing Faro in regard to archaeological heritage (reflections from an Irish perspective)
    Margaret Keane and Sean Kirwan
     

19. Assuring quality: archaeological works on Irish national road schemes
    Ronan Swan

20. Archaeology as a tool for better understanding our recent history
    Peep Pillak
     

21. Archaeological sites: the need for management and legislation improvements (some thoughts on the Albanian reality)
    Ols Lafe
     

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