The agreement on cooperation of Customs Services concerning detention and return illegal the exported and imported cultural values

of April 15, 1994

The State Parties of this agreement on behalf of the Governments which are hereinafter referred to as the Party, confirming the commitment to the purposes and the principles of constituent documents on creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States, noting that illegal export, transit and import of cultural values cause damage to cultural property of the people which protection shall be promoted by customs and other competent authorities of the Parties, in view of regulations of the Convention of UNESCO on the measures directed to prohibition and the prevention of illegal import, export and transfer of property to cultural values of 1970, aiming to strengthen fight against illegal transportation of cultural values through frontiers and to strengthen customs cooperation in this area, agreed as follows:

Article 1

For the purposes of this agreement the applied terms mean:

"Customs Services" - the central customs authorities of the Parties;

"cultural values" - values of religious or secular nature which are considered by the Parties as representing value for archeology, including the prehistoric period, literature, art and science;

"state of export" - The parties of this agreement from which cultural values were originally exported;

"transit State" - The parties of this agreement through which territory cultural values follow from the state of export to other states;

"state of import" - The parties of this agreement into which cultural values were imported;

"illicit movement of cultural values" - the export, transit and import of such values made in defiance of provisions of this agreement, other international obligations of the Parties and their legislation;

"return of cultural values" - the actual transfer of export to the state by the state of import or the transit State of the cultural values detained in connection with their illicit movement.

Article 2

Cultural values in cases, the stipulated by the legislation Parties, can be exported based on allowing documents.

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