Highlights - Import of cultural goods: debate and vote in Plenary - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

The report on the import of cultural goods, as tabled by the Committees on International Trade and Interrnal Market and Consumer Protection, will be discussed and voted by Parliament during its plenary sitting on 23 and 24 October 2018. The new rules aim to tackle an alternative financing source for terrorism and to preserve the cultural heritage of humanity, by stopping the entry to the EU of cultural goods that were unlawfully exported from third countries.

Currently, there are no common EU rules on the import of cultural goods, except from Syria and Iraq.