6 Amendments of Ian HUDGHTON related to 2017/2023(INL)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. UnderlinEmphasises that systematic recourse to provenance research is urgently needed to achieve a more transparent and responsible art market, and to discourage lootingand deter looting and trafficking of art and cultural goods from armed conflicts and wars, and should therefore be actively promoted;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on Member States to take appropriate action to put an end to the illegal trade in cultural goods from the territories of states at war such as Syria and Iraq, thereby preventing cultural goods from being used as a source of terrorist financing;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is convinced that the absence orand laxity of rules in certain Member States concerning provenance research and due diligence is fostering looting and smuggling and that atrafficking and incentivising smuggling. As a result of the lack of common standards, the applicable law often remains unclear for all stakeholders, including 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 and to be mindful of the UN Security Council Resolutions 2199 and 2253;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the growing public awareness with regard to art and cultural goods looted during World War II and more recently the surge in looting of art and cultural goods during the conflicts in Iraq and Syria, in addition 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 mappingoverview of existing databases and to envisage the creation of a streamlined, central database that takes account of the available information specific to the Member States;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that on the basis of such databases, a common cataloguing system cshould be put in place which could use standardised object IDs; askrequests 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 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that to enable proper provenance research, the creation of a documentary record or a 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 keptstored, from the time of its creation by the artist until the present day; askrequests the Commission to actively support the drafting of common guidelines on such registers and to adopt appropriate and timely measures in order to encouragesure that Member States to introduce a general obligation for art market professionals to keepmaintain such a transaction register.;