cultural object [ cultural goods | cultural property | restitution of cultural objects | return of cultural objects | cultural property(UNBIS) ]

art trade [ exportation of works of art | sale of objects belonging to the national heritage | trafficking in works of art ]

Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects | Unidroit Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects

illicit trade in cultural objects | illicit trafficking in cultural goods | illicit trafficking of cultural property | trafficking of cultural goods

Ordinance of 17 October 1984 on the Protection of Cultural Property during Armed Conflicts | Cultural Property Protection Ordinance [ CPPO ]

Federal Act of 20 June 2003 on the International Transfer of Cultural Property | Cultural Property Transfer Act [ CPTA ]

Ordinance of 13 April 2005 on the International Transfer of Cultural Property | Cultural Property Transfer Ordinance [ CPTO ]

restitution of cultural objects | return of cultural objects

International Code of Ethics for Dealers in Cultural Property for the Purpose of More Effective Control of Illicit Traffic in Cultural Property

cultural organisation [ cultural centre | cultural institution | cultural organization | Cultural sector(STW) ]

8. Denounces in the strongest terms the destruction of religious and cultural sites and artefacts by the so-called ‘ISIS/Daesh’, which constitutes an attack against the cultural heritage of all inhabitants of Syria and Iraq and of humanity at large; calls on all states to step up their criminal investigations and judicial cooperation with a view to identifying all groups responsible for illicit trafficking in cultural goods and for damaging or destroying cultural heritage that belongs to all of humanity in Syria, Iraq and the broader ...[+++] Middle East and North African regions;

30. Recalls that the EU has ratified the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and calls on the Member States who have not already done so to ratify the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, and the 1950 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen and Illegally Exported Cultural Objects, which represent important tools for strengthening the protection of global cultural heritage and cultural diversity, as well as the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Confli ...[+++]ct and its two protocols, the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage; calls for the harmonisation of legislation and an international agreement on cultural heritage and illicit trafficking;

D. emphasising that such acts of destruction of cultural and historical sites and objects are not new, and are not confined to Iraq and Syria, and that, according to UNESCO, ‘Cultural heritage is an important component of the cultural identity of communities, groups and individuals, and of social cohesion, so that its intentional destruction may have adverse consequences on human dignity and human rights’; stressing that, as stated by UNESCO amongst others, the products of looting and smuggling of cultural and religious sites and objects in Iraq and Syria by Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the ISIS/Da’esh and ot ...[+++]her groups involved in the conflict are being used to help fund conflict and terrorist activities, with the result that artistic and cultural goods are becoming ‘war weapons’;

Save as otherwise provided in Articles 8 and 14, the competent court shall order the return of the cultural object in question where it is found to be a cultural object within the meaning of point (1) of Article 2 and to have been removed unlawfully from national territory.