3 Amendments of Theodoros ZAGORAKIS related to 2017/2023(INL)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that systematic recourse to provenance research is needed to achieve a more transparent and responsible art market, and to discourage looting, and should therefore be actively promoted; notes the possibilities offered by European financial instruments in this direction; calls for consideration to be given to the promotion of European training programmes in provenance research in order to enable those involved in the fight against the illicit trade in cultural goods to develop and improve their expertise;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. INotes the legal difficulties that arise in cross-border applications for the return of works of art; 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, and incorporating some basic principles of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on stolen or illegally exported cultural objects in a legislative act;
Amendment 25 #
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; calls on the Commission and the Member States to launch information campaigns to discourage trade in cultural goods originating from illegal trade from war zones; 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;