1. . The Institute for the Restoration of Dubrovnik was established on the basis of an Act passed by the Assembly of the Municipality of Dubrovnik on October 10, 1979 for the purposes of carrying out work on the restoration of buildings damaged by the April 1979 earthquake.

2. In 1986, Croatian Parliament passed a special Law on the Restoration of Endangered Architectural Heritage in Dubrovnik ("Official Gazette", No. 21/86 and 33/89), which stated that the purpose of the Institute for the Restoration of Dubrovnik was to carry out professional and other tasks related to the organization and execution of programs concerning the restoration of architectural heritage in Dubrovnik.

3. In the passing of local administrative, self-government, and state administrative regulations, this institute did not follow the re-organization of other former municipal administration agencies as its legal status could only be resolved at the level of the Republic of Croatia, for its concerns dealt with public interests that were of import to the Republic of Croatia. There was no suitable reconciliation of the Law on the Restoration of Endangered Architectural Heritage in Dubrovnik, and accordingly, no settlement as to who would have the authority to execute this Law in the Municipality of Dubrovnik. On the day when the Law on the Designation of Self-Government Affairs in Local Self-Government and Administration took effect ("Official Gazette", No. 75/93), Article 40, Subsection 1 was applied ("Ministries and other independent bodies of State Administration are concerned with tasks that come under the authority of municipal assemblies, and which have not, by either this or any other law or regulation, been assigned to the authority of the local self-government and administrative body"), at which time the Ministry of Culture and Education took over the affairs belonging to the former Municipality of Dubrovnik, according to the Law on the Restoration of Endangered Architectural Heritage in Dubrovnik. On the basis of this article, the Ministry of Culture and Education passed an Act concerning the execution of tasks related to the restoration of endangered architectural heritage in Dubrovnik on November 5, 1993.

4. Once the Law on the Organization and Authority of Ministries and State Administrative Agencies took effect ("Official Gazette", No. 72/94), and on the basis of Article 37, Subsection 1.8, the above-mentioned affairs were taken over by the State Administrative Agency for the Conservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage. On the basis of this Law's subsections, the director of the State Agency for the Conservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage passed an Act on the Execution of Restoration Works on the Endangered Architectural Heritage of Dubrovnik.

5. Upon the passing of the Law on the Amendments and Supplements to the Law on the Organization and Authority of Ministries and State Administrative Agencies ("Official Gazette", No. 92/96), the State Agency for the Conservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage ceased to function, and the affairs of the Institute for the Restoration of Dubrovnik came under the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.

6. The Law on the Amendments and Supplements to the Law on the Restoration of the Endangered Architectural Heritage of Dubrovnik ("Official Gazette", No 128/99) was adopted on October 29, 1999.

The constituent session of the Administrative Council of the Institute for the Restoration of Dubrovnik was held on May 6, 2000. At its second session held on March 19, 2001, the Administrative Council adopted the Statute of the Institute for the Restoration of Dubrovnik, and the contract on mutual relations between founders and relations with the Institute for the Restoration of Dubrovnik was signed on the third session held on March 5, 2003. The Institute for the Restoration of Dubrovnik as public institution founded by the Republic of Croatia with 60%, the Dubrovnik-Neretva County with 20% and the City of Dubrovnik with 20% share was inscribed in the register of the Commercial Court in Dubrovnik on May 5, 2003 (registration number: Tt-03/1169-2 MBS: 090005820). After public competition procedure, the Government of the Republic of Croatia appointed Vjekoslav Vierda, Mr.sc., director of the Institute for the Restoration of Dubrovnik on October 10, 2003.