9 Amendments of Julie WARD related to 2017/2023(INL)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Recalls that education fosters respect and appreciation for art works and other cultural goods as symbols of cultural heritage and identity, and that it therefore plays an important role in preventing and discouraging looting and illicit trade of cultural goods; calls on the Commission and Member States to encourage and support educational and awareness-raising activities in this regard, including in non-formal and informal settings;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Underlines that the cross-border nature of most restitution claims requires a clear and coherent cross-border approach that can overcome existing difficulties and facilitate the achievement of just and fair solutions; calls on the Commission to envisage setting up an advisory body at Union level to assist Member States and other actors in their efforts to locate and identify looted art works and other cultural goods and expedite their restitution to the legitimate owners;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 b (new)
Paragraph -1 b (new)
-1b. Underlines that looting of works of art and other cultural goods during armed conflicts and wars, as well as in times of peace, is a major common concern that needs to be addressed both in terms of prevention and restitution of looted cultural property in order to protect and ensure the integrity of the cultural heritage and identity of societies, communities, groups and individuals;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that systematic recourse to high-quality and independent provenance research is needed to identify looted art works, to facilitate their restitution to the legitimate owners, to achieve a more transparent and responsible art market, and to discourage looting, and should therefore be actively promoted and supported;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to encourage and support special training programs for current and future experts in provenance research at Union and national level, including through cross-border projects;
Amendment 18 #
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 hinders the settling of many restitution claims, 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 22 #
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; 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, is updated regularly and can be accessed by all relevant actors;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that on the basis of such this central databases, a common cataloguing system could be put in place which could use standardised object IDs; asks therefore the Commission to envisage introducing the object IDs as developed and promoted by ICOM and other organisations as the market standard within the entire internal market;
Amendment 32 #
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 and make available such a transaction register.;