L'ATTUALE FASE DI ATTUAZIONE DELLA CONVENZIONE UNESCO 1970 SULLA PROTEZIONE DEI BENI CULTURALI. GLI ESITI DI UN SEMINARIO INTERNAZIONALE (MEXICO SEMINAR 2013)

The Note reports about the Mexico Seminar 2013 organized by the International Association of Legal Sciences (International association affiliated with UNESCO). The Seminar has focused its attention on the state of implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, followed by the UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects of 24 June 1995 and the 2011 UNESCO-UNIDROIT Model Provisions on State Ownership of Undiscovered Cultural Objects. In the Mexico seminar jurists and officials of various parts of the world have pointed out the weakness of the legal framework created by the conventions and therefore the difficulties in the exercise of restitutionary remedies by the States from which a cultural object has been removed.