6 Amendments of Bogdan Brunon WENTA related to 2017/2023(INL)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal for a regulation on the import of cultural goods of 13 July 2017;considering the global scope of the art market and the number of objects in private hands, underlines the need for further efforts concerning the cross- border restitution of works of art and cultural goods looted in armed conflicts and wars; underlines that provenance research and European cooperation have proved to be useful for the identification of looted objects and subsequently enabling them to be restituted and in some cases preventing the financing of terrorist groups or wars;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is convinced that the absence or laxity of rulesRegrets that in certain Member States concerning provenance research and due diligence isare not carried out in a coordinated way, which may as a result fostering looting and smuggling and that a. 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 harmonizinge 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 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the growing public awareness with regard to art looted during World War II, and during the more recent cases of the wars in Iraq and Syria, and with regard to the importance of provenance research, has led to the development of useful resources for establishing the ownership history of a work of art; 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 informationvalues the initiatives taken by museums and other public and private institutions aiming to develop tools to facilitate provenance research; urges the Commission to proceed to a thorough mapping of existing databases and initiatives in place in the Member states;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that on the basis of such databases, a common cataloguing system could be put in place which could use standardised object IDs; asks therefore the Commission to enviscourage introducing the object IDs as developed and promoted by ICOM and other organisations as the market standard within the entire internal market;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that to enable proper provenance research, the creation of a documentary record or, and previous 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 ofthat is as detailed as possible, its creation by the artist until the present daycommended; 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.encourage Member States to adhere to the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on stolen or illegally exported cultural objects;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Urges the Commission to encourage and support financially provenance research activities throughout the Union; suggests that the Commission organise a discussion forum in order to exchange the best practices and find the best solutions for the present and the future;