Activities of Jean-Marie CAVADA related to 2017/2023(INI)
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Amendments (7)
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the destruction and looting in Syria and Iraq in recent years have been significant in scale; whereas it is essential to make a firm commitment against the trafficking in works of art that can be used to finance illegal activities and terrorism;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas UNESCO, in conjunction with major auction houses, museums and renowned collectors in Europe, is developing advanced research into the provenance of these works in order to be able to return them to their owners;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
Fc. whereas ICOM has been publishing 'Red Lists' of categories of objects vulnerable to illicit trafficking for more than a decade, with the aim of complementing the Interpol database on stolen property;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that institutions such as UNESCO and Interpol are calling for the strengthening of the protection of cultural heritage and the empowerment of states to put in place measures to facilitate restitution;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the importance of raising collective awareness to denounce these illegal practices and recalls that each object removed from its owner represents historical and scientific treasures that have been lost forever;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that care should obviously be taken to create a comprehensive listing of all Jewish-owned cultural objects plundered by the Nazis and their allies, from the time of their spoliation to the present day; urges the Commission to support a cataloguing system, to be used also by public entities and private art collections, to gather data on the situation of looted cultural goods and the exact status of existing claims; urges the Commission to support digitization projects that would establish or connect existing digital databases in order to facilitate the exchange of such data and provenance research;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Recalls that close cooperation between police and customs services at European and international level is essential in combating the illicit trafficking in works of cultural heritage;