The Government approved, on Friday, by ordinance, the updating of the specific regulatory framework for the protection of assets belonging to the national movable cultural heritage with the aim of ensuring the international promotion of cultural heritage and improving the regime for the protection of the national movable cultural heritage.
According to a press release from the Executive, the normative act aims to allow, under certain conditions, the use of functionally classified movable cultural assets.
"Thus, it is necessary to create the legal framework so that, in certain situations, classified movable cultural goods can be used, respecting their destination and specificity, as well as the conditions of conservation and enhancement (for example, the use of a Stradivarius violin in cultural events or of cultural goods with technical value). Clarifications are also needed regarding civil contracts concluded for the organization of exhibitions, for restoration, expertise and investigation in specialized laboratories or for the implementation of cultural projects on the national territory or on the occasion of the export of classified movable cultural goods, contracts that must be adapted to the specificity of the good, its legal regime, the operation envisaged and contain clear clauses regarding the obligations of the organizing legal entity, at least regarding ensuring the security and protection of the goods, civil insurance against risks and regarding the environmental and conservation conditions in which the goods are stored or exhibited," the press release reads.
At the same time, classified movable cultural goods owned by the state or administrative-territorial units and administered by public institutions are exported "only temporarily and only for the organization of exhibitions abroad, for scientific laboratory investigations, restoration, expertise or for their use in cultural projects, according to the specifics of the movable cultural good, provided that the goods are insured for all risks".
It is also stipulated that movable cultural goods classified in the Treasury category, owned by natural or legal persons under private law, may be exported "only temporarily for the organization of exhibitions abroad, for scientific laboratory investigations, restoration, expertise or for their use in cultural projects, according to the specifics of the movable cultural good, based on civil contracts with specific clauses".
"The ordinance also provides that the procedures regarding the export of movable cultural goods in progress on the date the ordinance enters into force remain subject to the legal provisions in force on the date the application is submitted," according to the press release.
Within 30 days of the ordinance entering into force, the Methodological Norms regarding the permanent or temporary export of movable cultural goods will be amended accordingly.
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