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Erro hat geschrieben:Auf meine Anfrage warum es die Befragung nur in Englisch gibt und ob bestimmte Gruppen von EU Bürgern ausgeschlossen werden sollen, erhielt ich heute folgende Antwort:

Dear Mr xxx,
For your information : Diese Umfrage wird in etwa drei Wochen auch in anderen Amtssprachen der Europäischen Union veröffentlicht.
https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/c ... l-goods_de
Best regards,

European Commission - DG TAXUD.B1
Protection of citizens and enforcement of IPR

An open public consultation was held between October 2016 and January 2017 and received 305 responses from business and other interested sectors. The Commission has also held three Expert Group meetings with representatives from customs and cultural authorities of Member States. This provided an opportunity to present the initiative and have an in-depth exchange of opinions and a discussion on the various challenges and objectives. Member States' customs and cultural authorities were also surveyed on the potential costs and burden for administrations. Lastly, a targeted consultation on customs issues was carried out for Member States authorities, international organisations and stakeholder representatives.

Rules governing imports of cultural goods into the EU will be enforced in a number of ways to avoid loopholes and ensure consistency. The aim is also to avoid situations where cultural goods can be moved to countries with no protective legislation to by-pass the export prohibitions or restrictions of the source country (a form of 'laundering' of the cultural good). The rules state:

- When the cultural good is exported directly from the country to whose cultural heritage it belongs (source country), the importer must prove that the export from the source country was legal.

- When it is not being exported from its original country, but from another signatory member of the 1970 UNESCO Convention, it is enough to prove that the cultural good is being exported legally from that signatory member into the EU. For example, an ancient sarcophagus originally from Egypt and that has been legally imported into the US can be exported into the EU, as long as a license is obtained for the US-EU import.

- If the country of dispatch is not a signatory member of the 1970 UNESCO Convention, then the importer will have to prove that the cultural good was legally imported from the initial source country. For example, an EU importer trying to bring an Egyptian sarcophagus that has already been moved to a country that has not signed the UNESCO Convention, must prove that the initial export from Egypt to the non-signatory was legal.