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Regulation (EU) 2019/880 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title
Regulation (EU) 2019/880 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the introduction and the import of cultural goods
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Part A.Cultural goods covered by Article 3(1)
| a Liturgical icons and statues, even free-standing, are to be considered as cultural goods belonging to this category. | |
| (a) | rare collections and specimens of fauna, flora, minerals and anatomy, and objects of palaeontological interest; |
| (b) | property relating to history, including the history of science and technology and military and social history, to the life of national leaders, thinkers, scientists and artists and to events of national importance; |
| (c) | products of archaeological excavations (including regular and clandestine) or of archaeological discoveries on land or underwater; |
| (d) | elements of artistic or historical monuments or archaeological sites which have been dismembereda; |
| (e) | antiquities more than one hundred years old, such as inscriptions, coins and engraved seals; |
| (f) | objects of ethnological interest; |
| (g) | objects of artistic interest, such as: (i) pictures, paintings and drawings produced entirely by hand on any support and in any material (excluding industrial designs and manufactured articles decorated by hand); (ii) original works of statuary art and sculpture in any material; (iii) original engravings, prints and lithographs; (iv) original artistic assemblages and montages in any material; |
| (h) | rare manuscripts and incunabula; |
| (i) | old books, documents and publications of special interest (historical, artistic, scientific, literary, etc.) singly or in collections; |
| (j) | postage, revenue and similar stamps, singly or in collections; |
| (k) | archives, including sound, photographic and cinematographic archives; |
| (l) | articles of furniture more than one hundred years old and old musical instruments. |
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