PROCEDURES
FOR
CULTURAL PROPERTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE SESSIONS
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The
Cultural Property Advisory Committee invites any member of the public
to submit written comments or information relevant to the request/s
or proposed extension/s under consideration.
For those persons wishing to make an oral presentation at an
open session, a copy of the written text should also be submitted.
All documents submitted to the Committee will become a part of
the record of the meeting. The
following procedures will be observed:
1.
Written comments and oral presentation
texts must be submitted to the Cultural Property Office at least 4 working
days in advance of the meeting, to ensure adequate time for reproduction
and dissemination to committee members.
2.
Each member of the public who
has requested to make an oral presentation at the open session and who
has submitted a text in advance will have 5 minutes to present a statement
or excerpt highlights from the written text already provided to the
Committee. The Chair will give
a one-minute warning. Additional
time will be allowed for interchange with Committee members at the Chair’s
discretion. In the interest
of ensuring equal time for all presenters, and in order to maximize
opportunities for productive exchange of information with Committee
members, time limits will be strictly enforced.
The
Committee is particularly interested in hearing from members of the
public who can provide information relevant to the four statutory determinations
it considers for the request at hand.
Those determinations can be found under Section 303(a) of the
Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act.
Examples of information useful to the committee include:
1.
data on the trade in objects
from the requesting country, such as nationality of buyers, market transit
points, market volume, types of objects on the market, changes in the
market in recent years or potential for change;
2.
the effect, or potential effect,
of import restrictions on individual Americans;
3.
self-help measures taken by
requesting countries – their nature and effectiveness;
4.
the extent and location of looting
in the requesting country;
5.
potential impact of import restrictions
on interchange for cultural, educational, and scientific purposes.
Revised: October 31, 2001
