11 Amendments of Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI related to 2017/2023(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas illicit trafficking in cultural goods plundered during the armed conflicts and wars in Libya, Syria and Iraq is an important source of funding for the activities of terrorist organisations;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Cart confiscated Artby Nazi Germany and its allies, the Vilnius Forum and the Terezin Declaration on Holocaust Era Assets and Related Issues have all emphasised the importance of providing restitution for individual immovable property; whereas the number of artworks that have been restituted since the Washington Conference is perhaps 1 000 to 2 0008; whereas there is no complete list of artworks restituted in recent years; _________________ 8 According to the Claims Conference- WJRO Looted Art and Cultural Property Initiative.
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the Soviet Union, both during and after the Second World War, authorised the plundering of works of art and cultural goods belonging to private individuals, state and local government institutions and religious associations in Central and Eastern European countries; whereas a significant proportion of these cultural goods continue to be illegally held by the Russian Federation, which is hindering searches for stolen works of art and their restitution to their rightful owners or their heirs;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas no EU legislation exists that explicitly and comprehensively governs restitution claims for works of art and cultural goods looted in armed conflicts by private individuals, state and local government institutions and religious associations;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the recognition by some Member States that the unique problems associated with the restitution claims of works of art and cultural goods looted in armed conflicts and wars need to be addressed in order to arrive at legal solutions ensuring the property rights of private individuals, state and local government institutions and religious associations unfairly dispossessed of their works of art during an armed conflicts ofr wars;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that care should obviously be taken to create a comprehensive listing of all cultural objects, belonging both to Jewish- owned cultural objects plundered by the Nazis and their alliesrs and to people of other nationalities, plundered by Nazi Germany and its allies, as well as by the USSR, from the time of their spoliation to the present day; urges the Commission to support a cataloguing system, to be used also by public entitiestate and local government institutions, religious associations and private art collections, to gather data on the situation of looted cultural goods and the exact status of existing claims;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that the issue of cultural and artistic works stolen by the USSR during and after the Second World War in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe is often overlooked in the development of international regulations on cross-border claims for the return of works of art and cultural goods stolen during armed conflicts and wars;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that statutes of limitation often create difficulties for claimants in restitution matters; calls on the Commission to assess the issue and strike the right balance for the limitation period applicable to Nazi-looted art restitution claims relating to art stolen by Nazi Germany and its allies, as well as by the USSR, which should take into account both the protection of the interests of the victims of looting and theft and those of the market, as well as the principle of legal certainty and the protection of the cultural heritage of the Member States; considers that the US Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act could serve as an example;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission to take action to stop the authorities of the Russian Federation and its cultural institutions from illegally exporting from the occupied territory of Ukraine and the illegally annexed Crimea exhibits that are part of Ukraine's cultural heritage, in clear violation of international instruments, including the Convention on the Law and Customs of War, the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, the Convention on measures to prohibit and prevent the unlawful import, export and transfer of cultural property, the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and UN Security Council Resolution 2347;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to develop common principles on access to public or private archives containing information on property identification and location and tying together existing databases of information about title to disputed properties, so that the claims of private individuals, state and local authorities and religious associations are regulated in the same way;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to identify common principles on how ownership or title are established as well as rules on prescription and standards of proof and the concept of looting and art, taking into consideration the relevant rules in force in the Member States;