3 Amendments of Dominique BILDE related to 2017/2023(INL)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is convinced that the absence or laxity of rules in certain Member States concerning provenance research and due diligence is fostering looting and smuggling and that as a result of the lack of common standards, the applicable law often remains unclear for museums, art dealers, collectors, tourists and travellers; asks, therefore, the Commission to envisage harmonizing the rules on provenance research, andan exchange between Member States on their respective legislation and practices related to provenance research, in order to build on each other's successes while adapting to national contexts for greater effectiveness, and to envisage incorporating some basic principles of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on stolen or illegally exported cultural objects in a legislative act;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the growing public awareness with regard to art looted during World War II and to the importance of provenance research has led to the development of useful resources for establishing the ownership history of a work of art; stresses that what happened during the Second World War is no exception and that, in each conflict, robberies and looting increase, and that it is therefore also necessary to prevent the illegal trade in such goods; urges the Commission to proceed to a thorough mapping of existing databases and to envisage the creation of a central database that takes account of the available information;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that to enable proper provenance research, the creation of a documentary record or transaction register is needed, encompassing information on owners’ names, dates of ownership and means of transference, i.e. inheritance, or sale through a dealer or auction, but also on locations where the work was kept, from the time of its creation by the artist until the present day; asks the Commission to support the drafting of common guidelines on such registers and to adopt appropriate measures in order to encourage Member States to introduce a general obligation for art market professionals to keep such a transaction register., while shielding the owners of works of art or cultural goods from an excessive administrative burden;