Services

The Commission for Looted Art in Europe assists families, communities and institutions worldwide with the research, identification and recovery of looted cultural property. Below are specific services that the Commission provides.

• Provides guidance, expertise and assistance to individuals, families and communities worldwide to identify, locate and recover looted cultural property
• Works with museums, governments and other institutions to identify and locate looted cultural property
• Supports and pursues restitution claims and procedures in all countries, and promotes public policy and legislative change throughout Europe to enable the just resolution of these issues
• Monitors and furthers international developments in the implementation of the
  • 1998 Washington Principles with Respect to Nazi-Confiscated Art
  • Resolution 1205 of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe of November 1999
  • Declaration of October 2000 of the Vilnius International Forum on Holocaust Era Looted Cultural Assets
  • European Parliament Resolution and Report of Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market of November 2003
  • Inter-Allied Declaration against Acts of Dispossession committed in Territories under Enemy Occupation and Control, London, of 5 January 1943
  • Final Act of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, 1-22 July 1944, Enemy Assets and Looted Property
• Works to establish codes of practice for the auction houses and the art trade, particularly with respect to the provision of provenance information and all other essential records
• Promotes alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for resolving looted cultural property cases.