On the Export and Import of Cultural Property

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International Treaty on 28.09.2001 N b/n3

Governments of the States - Parties to this Agreement, hereinafter referred to as the Parties, taking into account their mutual interest in creating an enabling environment for the development of cultural relations and cultural exchange, taking into account the provisions of the Agreement on cooperation in culture from 15 May 1992, have agreed as follows:

Article 1

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In this Agreement, the following terms and concepts:

"public authorities" - state authorities of the Parties authorized in accordance with national legislation, governmental regulation and control over the export and import of cultural property;

"State of export" - the state from whose territory exported cultural property;

"Transit State" - the state, through which cultural values are moved from the State of export to other states;

"State of import" - a state the territory of which imported cultural values;

"cultural values" - of a religious or secular nature, or their collection, which addresses each of the States Parties as being of importance for the history, culture, art, science and subject to the laws of the States Parties on the exportation and importation of cultural property;

"export and import of cultural property" - the movement of cultural property to corporations and individuals for any purpose through the customs borders of the States Parties with no obligation to re-importation or exportation;

"temporary export and temporary import" - the movement of cultural property to corporations and individuals for any purpose through the customs borders of the States Parties with the obligation of re-importation or re-exportation within a specified period of time;

"authorization" - a special document, which form is approved by the established law of the State Party concerned the order and formally communicated to the other party was the only basis for legitimate transfer of cultural property through the customs and borders the States Parties;

"illicit transfer of cultural values" - export, temporary export, transit, import and temporary import of cultural property committed in violation of laws and international agreements of the Parties.

Article 2
The import of cultural property in respect of which announced an international manhunt, is prohibited. Such values are subject to detention for their eventual return to its rightful owner in the manner prescribed by law and international agreements of the Parties.

Article 3
When transiting through the territory of cultural property to the State Party to the owner or authorized in the legislation of States Parties to the person who must provide the public authorities that produce customs clearance, customs declaration describing trafficked cultural values and an indication of transit as a target entry and to allow the export of cultural values, issued by the State of export. Customs transit of cultural property is made in accordance with the customs regulations of the State of transit.

Article 4
Cultural values are exported from the territories of States Parties on permits, the form which is approved in the established law of the State Party concerned manner and communicated to the other Parties.

Permits are filled in the official language of the State Export and in Russian and issued by authorized state bodies of the States Parties.

The issuance of permits governed by the laws of the State of export.

The export and temporary export of cultural property without a permit when crossing the border is prohibited.

Article 5
The Parties shall make available to the other Parties, information on legislative and other regulatory legal acts governing the movement of cultural property across the borders of the Parties on the list of categories of cultural property, as well as all changes to this policy or legislation.

Article 6
The Parties shall take measures to create the most favored in the permit and other required documentation to the temporarily exported and temporarily exported cultural property to the permanent custody of funds of state and municipal museums, archives, libraries and other public repositories of cultural values and claimed these public records to temporary export and temporary import for the development programs of cultural relations and cultural exchanges between States Parties, as well as when moving these cultural values through customs and borders the States Parties.

Article 7
Protection temporarily imported into the territory of the State Parties to the cultural values of other States Parties shall in accordance with its laws and international treaties.

Article 8
Cultural values exported from the territory of a State Party or imported to the States Parties to natural and legal persons, irrespective of their ownership on them and how they appear, must be declared at customs clearance, carried out by authorized state body.

Article 9
Permission is fixed in the customs declaration, and permission to bear the registration mark for the passage of cultural values through the customs border of the State Party in the manner determined by the laws of the State of export, import or transit.

Article 10
If necessary, the extension of the temporary export of cultural property to the person who carries out the temporary export of cultural property from the State Party shall, no later than two weeks before the expiration of a written appeal to the public authorities of the State of export from requesting an extension of the temporary export or for change the customs regime for appropriate action the public authorities of the State of export.

By treatment are copies of customs declaration and a list of temporarily exported cultural property, as well as a set of photographs of these cultural values, formatted according to the established law of the State export order.

Article 11
In the event that the public authorities of the State export solutions for an extension of the temporary export of cultural property to the person who carries out the temporary importation of cultural property in the territory of a State Party shall in writing notify the public authorities of the State of entry and apply to them for an extension of the temporary import of cultural values or to change customs regime.

The notification shall be accompanied by copies of customs declaration and a list of temporarily imported cultural values, as well as a set of photographs of these cultural values, formatted according to the established law of the State of import order.

Article 12
Customs and special fees and charges for removal from the territory of a Party into the territory of the state, re-export after temporary import and re-importation after temporary exportation and transit of cultural property are charged in the manner prescribed by law of the State Party concerned.

Article 13
Import controls on the territory of the State Parties, the export from the territory of the State Parties, as well as the timely return of temporarily exported cultural property is carried out in accordance with the laws of the States Parties.

Article 14
In the absence of the owner of the document confirming entry into the territory of the State Party of cultural values, their subsequent removal governed by the laws of the State Party in whose territory these cultural values are.

Article 15
Compulsory examination of cultural values to be detained by customs or other law enforcement agencies in the territory of one Party on suspicion of illegality of their displacement.

Article 16
Parties shall ensure the necessary arrangements for the implementation of this Agreement, including the preparation and adoption of appropriate legislative and other normative legal acts.

Article 17
This Agreement shall enter into force on the date of deposit of the third notice of the implementation by the signatory Parties of their domestic procedures necessary for its entry into force of <*>.

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<*> The agreement came into force for Russia on Dec. 11, 2002.

For Parties that have fulfilled the necessary domestic procedures later this Agreement enters into force on the date of the relevant documents to the depositary.

Article 18
By mutual agreement of the Parties to this Agreement may be amended and supplemented, have separate protocols, which are an integral part of this agreement and shall become effective as provided in Article 17 of this Agreement.

Article 19
This Agreement is valid for five years and automatically extended for successive periods of five years, unless the Parties decide otherwise.

Article 20
Controversial issues related to the application or interpretation of this Agreement shall be settled through consultations or negotiations of the Parties.

Article 21
Each Party may withdraw from this Agreement by giving written notification to the depositary not later than six months before the release, to settle their obligations under the Agreement.

Article 22
This Agreement after the entry into force is open to accession by other States which share its aims and principles and are ready to assume the obligations arising from this Agreement. For the acceding State, this Agreement shall enter into force on the date of deposit of instruments of accession.

Done in Moscow on September 28, 2001 in one original copy in Russian. The original copy is kept in the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which shall send to each signatory to this Agreement, a certified copy.
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[Meister]

better already existing topics about the importation and exportation to write, and then later this information is lost ...

[Евгений]

Сообщение от Meister

if not then this information is lost ...

There is a label import-export, information is all there is.

[Meister]

Eugene, agree that it is more convenient, when all in one post ...

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Сообщение от Meister

that is more convenient, when all in one post ...

Unfortunately so does not work .. different topic.
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Clarification of Export and Import of Cultural Property in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed the Law of Ukraine "On ratification of the Agreement on Import and Export of Cultural Property, adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of January 11, 2006 at the initiative of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

Act ratified the Agreement on Import and Export of Cultural Property, concluded in the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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