Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of a Member State (Codified version)
Date: 2008-01-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: administrative cooperation, codification of EU law, cultural object, cultural relations, export, export licence, heritage protection

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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 

Brussels, 11.1.2008 
COM(2007) 873 final 

2007/0299 (COD) 

Proposal for a 

DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL 

on the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of a Member 
State 

(Codified version) 

(presented by the Commission) 

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 

In  the  context  of  a  people’s  Europe,  the  Commission  attaches  great  importance  to 
simplifying  and  clarifying  Community  law  so  as  to  make  it  clearer  and  more 
accessible to the ordinary citizen, thus giving him new opportunities and the chance 
to make use of the specific rights it gives him. 

This aim cannot be achieved so long as numerous provisions that have been amended 
several times, often quite substantially, remain scattered, so that they must be sought 
partly  in  the  original  instrument  and  partly  in  later  amending  ones.  Considerable 
research work, comparing many different instruments, is thus needed to identify the 
current rules. 

For  this  reason  a  codification  of  rules  that  have  frequently  been  amended  is  also 
essential if Community law is to be clear and transparent. 

On  1  April  1987  the  Commission  therefore  decided1  to  instruct  its  staff  that  all 
legislative acts should be codified after no more than ten amendments, stressing that 
this  is  a  minimum  requirement  and  that  departments  should  endeavour  to  codify  at 
even  shorter  intervals  the  texts  for  which  they  are  responsible,  to  ensure  that  the 
Community rules are clear and readily understandable. 

The  Conclusions  of 
the  Edinburgh  European  Council 
(December 1992) confirmed this2, stressing the importance of codification as it offers 
certainty as to the law applicable to a given matter at a given time. 

the  Presidency  of 

Codification  must  be  undertaken  in  full  compliance  with  the  normal  Community 
legislative procedure. 

Given  that  no  changes  of  substance  may  be  made  to  the  instruments  affected  by 
codification, the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have agreed, 
by  an  interinstitutional  agreement  dated  20  December  1994,  that  an  accelerated 
procedure may be used for the fast-track adoption of codification instruments. 

is 

this  proposal 

to  undertake  a  codification  of  Council 
The  purpose  of 
Directive 93/7/EEC  of  15  March  1993  on  the  return  of  cultural  objects  unlawfully 
removed from the territory of a Member State3. The new Directive will supersede the 
various acts incorporated in it4; this proposal fully preserves the content of the acts 
being  codified  and  hence  does  no  more  than  bring  them  together  with  only  such 
formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself. 

COM(87) 868 PV. 
See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions. 
Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the 
Council – Codification of the Acquis communautaire, COM(2001) 645 final. 
See Annex II, Part A of this proposal. 

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5. 

The codification proposal was drawn up on the basis of a preliminary consolidation, 
in  all  official  languages,  of  Directive  93/7/EEC  and  the  instruments  amending  it, 
carried out by the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, by 
means  of  a  data-processing  system.  Where  the  Articles  have  been  given  new 
numbers,  the  correlation  between  the  old and  the  new  numbers  is  shown  in  a  table 
contained in Annex III to the codified Directive. 

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(cid:208) 93/7/EEC (adapted) 

2007/0299 (COD) 

Proposal for a 

DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL 

on the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of a Member 
State 

(Text with EEA relevance) 

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 

Having  regard  to  the  Treaty  establishing  the  European  Community,  and  in  particular 
Article ⌦ 95 ⌫ thereof, 

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee1, 

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty2, 

Whereas: 

(1) 

Council  Directive 93/7/EEC  of  15  March  1993  on  the  return  of  cultural  objects 
unlawfully  removed  from  the  territory  of  a  Member  State3  has  been  substantially 
amended  several  times4.  In  the  interests  of  clarity  and  rationality  the  said  Directive 
should be codified. 

(cid:208)  

(2) 

Under the terms and within the limits of Article 30 of the Treaty, Member States retain 
the right to define their national treasures and to take the necessary measures to protect 
them. 

(cid:208) 93/7/EEC Recital 2 (adapted) 

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OJ C […], […], p. […]. 
OJ C […], […], p. […]. 
OJ  L  74,  27.3.1993,  p.  74.  Directive  as  last  amended  by  Directive  2001/38/EC  of  the  European 
Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 187, 10.7.2001, p. 43). 
See Annex II, Part A. 

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(cid:208) 93/7/EEC Recital 3 (adapted) 

(3) 

Arrangements  should  therefore  be  ⌦ maintained ⌫  enabling  Member  States  to 
secure the  return  to their territory of cultural  objects which are classified  as  national 
treasures within the meaning of Article 30 of the Treaty and have been removed from 
their  territory  in  breach  of  the  abovementioned  national  measures  or  of  [Council 
Regulation (EEC) No 3911/92 of 9 December 1992] on the export of cultural goods5. 
Since the implementation of these arrangements should be as simple and efficient as 
possible, ⌦ it is necessary, in order ⌫ to facilitate cooperation with regard to return, 
⌦ that ⌫ the scope of the arrangements be confined to items belonging to common 
categories of cultural object. Annex I to this Directive is consequently not intended to 
define objects which rank as national treasures within the meaning of the said Article 
30,  but  merely  categories  of  object  which  may  be  classified  as  such  and  may 
accordingly be covered by the return procedure ⌦ under ⌫ this Directive. 

(4) 

Cultural objects classified as national treasures and forming an integral part of public 
collections  or  inventories  of  ecclesiastical  institutions  but  which  do  not  fall  within 
those common categories should also be covered by this Directive. 

(cid:208) 93/7/EEC Recital 4 

(cid:208) 93/7/EEC Recital 5 (adapted) 

(5) 

Administrative  cooperation  should  be  ⌦ maintained ⌫  between  Member  States  as 
regards their national treasures, in close liaison with their cooperation in the field of 
stolen works of art and involving in particular the recording, with Interpol and other 
qualified  bodies  issuing  similar  lists,  of  lost,  stolen  or  illegally  removed  cultural 
objects forming part of their national treasures and their public collections. 

(6) 

The  procedure  ⌦ provided  for ⌫  by  this  Directive  ⌦ forms  part  of  the ⌫ 
cooperation between Member States in this field in the context of the internal market. 
The aim is mutual recognition of the relevant national laws. Provision should therefore 
be made, in particular, for the Commission to be assisted by an advisory committee. 

(cid:208) 93/7/EEC Recital 6 (adapted) 

(7) 

Regulation  [(EEC)  No  3911/92],  together  with  this  Directive,  ⌦ sets  up ⌫  a 
Community system to protect Member States' cultural goods. 

(cid:208) 93/7/EEC Recital 7 (adapted) 

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OJ  L  395,  31.12.1992,  p.  1.  ⌦ Regulation  as  last  amended  by  Regulation  (EC)  No 806/2003 
(OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1). ⌫ 

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(8) 

This  Directive  should  be  without  prejudice  to  the  obligations  of  the  Member  States 
relating to the time-limits for transposition into national law of the Directives set out in 
Annex II, Part B, 

(cid:208)  

(cid:208) 93/7/EEC 

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: 

Article 1 

For the purposes of this Directive: 

(1) 

‘cultural object’ shall mean an object which: 

(a) 

is  classified,  before  or  after  its  unlawful  removal  from  the  territory  of  a 
Member  State,  among  the  ‘national  treasures  possessing  artistic,  historic  or 
archaeological  value’  under  national  legislation  or  administrative  procedures 
within the meaning of Article 30 of the Treaty; and 

(b)  belongs to one of the categories listed in Annex I or does not belong to one of 

these categories but forms an integral part of: 

(i) 

public  collections  listed  in  the  inventories  of  museums,  archives  or 
libraries' conservation collection, 

(ii) 

the inventories of ecclesiastical institutions; 

(2) 

‘public collections’ shall mean collections which are the property of a Member State, 
a local or regional authority within a Member States or an institution situated in the 
territory of a Member State and defined as public in accordance with the legislation 
of that Member State, such institution being the property of, or significantly financed 
by, that Member State or a local or regional authority; 

(3) 

‘unlawfully removed from the territory of a Member State’ shall mean: 

(a) 

removed  from  the  territory  of  a  Member  State  in  breach  of  its  rules  on  the 
protection  of  national 
in  breach  of  Regulation  [(EEC) 
No 3911/92]; or 

treasures  or 

(b)  not returned at the end of a period of lawful temporary removal or any breach 

of another condition governing such temporary removal; 

(4) 

(5) 

‘requesting  Member  State’  shall  mean  the  Member  State  from  whose  territory  the 
cultural object has been unlawfully removed; 

‘requested Member State’ shall mean the Member State in whose territory a cultural 
object unlawfully removed from the territory of another Member State is located; 

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(7) 

‘return’  shall  mean  the  physical  return  of  the  cultural  object  to  the  territory  of  the 
requesting Member State; 

‘possessor’ shall mean the person physically holding the cultural object on his own 
account; 

(8) 

‘holder’ shall mean the person physically holding the cultural object for third parties. 

Article 2 

Cultural objects which have been unlawfully removed from the territory of a Member State 
shall be returned in accordance with the procedure and in the circumstances provided for in 
this Directive. 

Article 3 

Each  Member  State  shall  appoint  one  or  more  central  authorities  to  carry  out  the  tasks 
provided for in this Directive. 

Member  States  shall  inform  the  Commission  of  all  the  central  authorities  they  appoint 
pursuant to this Article. 

The Commission shall publish a list of these central authorities and any changes concerning 
them in the Official Journal of the European Union, Series C. 

Article 4 

Member  States'  central  authorities  shall  cooperate  and  promote  consultation  between  the 
Member States' competent national authorities. The latter shall in particular: 

(1) 

(2) 

(3) 

upon  application  by  the  requesting  Member  State,  seek  a  specified  cultural  object 
which  has  been  unlawfully  removed  from  its  territory,  identifying  the  possessor 
and/or holder. The application must include all information needed to facilitate this 
search, with particular reference to the actual or presumed location of the object; 

notify  the  Member  States  concerned,  where  a  cultural  object  is  found  in  their  own 
territory  and  there  are  reasonable  grounds  for  believing  that  it  has  been  unlawfully 
removed from the territory of another Member State; 

enable  the  competent  authorities  of  the  requesting  Member  State  to  check  that  the 
object  in  question  is  a  cultural  object,  provided  that  the  check  is  made  within  2 
months of the notification provided  for  in paragraph 2. If it is not made within the 
stipulated period, paragraphs 4 and 5 shall cease to apply; 

(4) 

take  any  necessary  measures,  in  cooperation  with  the  Member  State  concerned,  for 
the physical preservation of the cultural object; 

(5) 

prevent, by the necessary interim measures, any action to evade the return procedure; 

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(6) 

act as intermediary between the possessor and/or holder and the requesting Member 
State  with  regard  to  return.  To  this  end,  the  competent  authorities  of  the  requested 
Member States may, without prejudice to Article 5, first facilitate the implementation 
of  an  arbitration  procedure,  in  accordance  with  the  national  legislation  of  the 
requested  State  and  provided  that  the  requesting  State  and  the  possessor  or  holder 
give their formal approval. 

Article 5 

The  requesting  Member  State  may  initiate,  before  the  competent  court  in  the  requested 
Member State, proceedings against the possessor or, failing him, the holder, with the aim of 
securing the return of a cultural object which has been unlawfully removed from its territory. 

Proceedings may be brought only where the document initiating them is accompanied by: 

(a) 

(b) 

a  document  describing  the  object  covered  by  the  request  and  stating  that  it  is  a 
cultural object; 

a  declaration  by  the  competent  authorities  of  the  requesting  Member  State  that  the 
cultural object has been unlawfully removed from its territory. 

Article 6 

The  central  authority  of  the  requesting  Member  State  shall  forthwith  inform  the  central 
authority of the requested Member State that proceedings have been initiated with the aim of 
securing the return of the object in question. 

The  central  authority  of  the  requested  Member  State  shall  forthwith  inform  the  central 
authorities of the other Member States. 

Article 7 

1. Member States shall lay down in their legislation that the return proceedings provided for 
in this Directive may not be brought  more than one year after the requesting Member State 
became  aware  of  the  location  of  the  cultural  object  and  of  the  identity  of  its  possessor  or 
holder. 

Such proceedings may, at all events, not be brought more than 30 years after the object was 
unlawfully removed from the territory of the requesting Member State. However, in the case 
of  objects  forming  part  of  public  collections,  referred  to  in  point  (1)  of  Article  1  ,  and 
ecclesiastical  goods  in  the  Member  States  where  they  are  subject  to  special  protection 
arrangements  under  national  law,  return  proceedings  shall  be  subject  to  a  time-limit  of 
75 years, except in Member States where proceedings are not subject to a time-limit or in the 
case  of  bilateral  agreements  between  Member  States  laying  down  a  period  exceeding 
75 years. 

2.  Return  proceedings  may  not  be  brought  if  removal  from  the  national  territory  of  the 
requesting Member State is no longer unlawful at the time when they are to be initiated. 

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Article 8 

Save as otherwise provided in Articles 7 and 13, the competent court shall order the return of 
the  cultural  object  in  question  where  it  is  found  to  be  a  cultural  object  and  to  have  been 
removed unlawfully from national territory. 

Article 9 

Where  return  of  the  object  is  ordered,  the  competent  court  in  the  requested ⌦ Member ⌫ 
State  shall  award  the  possessor  such  compensation  as  it  deems  fair  according  to  the 
circumstances  of  the  case,  provided  that  it  is  satisfied  that  the  possessor  exercised  due  care 
and attention in acquiring the object. 

(cid:208) 93/7/EEC 

The burden of proof shall be governed by the legislation of the requested Member State. 

In  the  case  of  a  donation  or  succession,  the  possessor  shall  not  be  in  a  more  favourable 
position than the person from whom he acquired the object by that means. 

The requesting Member State shall pay such compensation upon return of the object. 

Article 10 

Expenses incurred in implementing a decision ordering the return of a cultural object shall be 
borne by the requesting Member State. The same applies to the costs of the measures referred 
to in point (4) of Article 4. 

Article 11 

Payment  of  the  fair  compensation  and  of  the  expenses  referred  to  in  Articles  9  and  10 
respectively shall be without prejudice to the requesting Member State's right to take action 
with  a  view  to  recovering  those  amounts  from  the  persons  responsible  for  the  unlawful 
removal of the cultural object from its territory. 

Ownership of the cultural object after return shall be governed by the law of the requesting 
Member State. 

Article 12 

This Directive shall apply only to cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of a 
Member State on or after 1 January 1993. 

Article 13 

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Article 14 

1. Each Member State may extend its obligation to return cultural objects to cover categories 
of objects other than those listed in Annex I. 

2. Each Member State may apply the arrangements provided for by this Directive to requests 
for  the  return  of  cultural  objects  unlawfully  removed  from  the  territory  of  other  Member 
States prior to 1 January 1993. 

Article 15 

This  Directive  shall  be  without  prejudice  to  any  civil  or  criminal  proceedings  that  may  be 
brought,  under  the  national  laws  of  the  Member  States,  by  the  requesting  Member  State 
and/or the owner of a cultural object that has been stolen. 

(cid:208) 93/7/EEC (adapted) 

Article 16 

1. Member States shall send the Commission every three years a report on the application of 
this Directive. 

2.  The  Commission  shall  send  the  European  Parliament,  the  Council  and  the  European 
Economic and Social Committee, every three years, a report reviewing the application of this 
Directive. 

3. The Council acting on a proposal from the  Commission, shall examine every three years 
and,  where  appropriate,  update  the  amounts  indicated  in  Annex  I,  on  the  basis  of  economic 
and monetary indicators in the Community. 

(cid:208) 93/7/EEC 

Article 17 

The Commission shall be assisted by the Committee set up by Article 8 of Regulation [(EEC) 
No 3911/92]. 

The  Committee  shall  examine  any  question  arising  from  the  application  of  Annex  I  to  this 
Directive which may be tabled by the chairman either on his own initiative or at the request of 
the representative of a Member State. 

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Article 18 

Member  States  shall  ⌦ inform 
laws,  regulations  and 
administrative  provisions  necessary  to  comply  with  this  Directive ⌦ which  they  bring  into 
force ⌫. 

the  Commission  of ⌫ 

the 

When Member States adopt these measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or 
shall  be  accompanied  by  such  reference  on  the  occasion  of  their  official  publication.  The 
methods of making such a reference shall be laid down by the Member States. 

(cid:208) 93/7/EEC 

(cid:208)  

Article 19 

Directive  93/7/EEC,  as  amended  by  the  Directives  listed  in  Annex  II,  Part  A,  is  repealed, 
without  prejudice  to  the  obligations  of  the  Member  States  relating  to  the  time-limits  for 
transposition into national law of the Directives set out in Annex II, Part B. 

References  to  the  repealed  Directive  shall  be  construed  as  references  to  this  Directive  and 
shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex III. 

This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in 
the Official Journal of the European Union. 

Article 20 

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Article 21 

This Directive is addressed to the Member States. 

Done at Brussels, […] 

For the European Parliament 
The President 
[…] 

For the Council 
The President 
[…] 

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ANNEX I 

Categories referred to in Article 1(1)(b) to which objects classified as ‘national 
treasures’ within the meaning of Article 30 of the Treaty must belong in order to qualify 
for return under this Directive 

A. 

1.  Archaeological objects more than 100 years old which are the products of: 

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land or underwater excavations and finds, 

archaeological sites, 

archaeological collections. 

2. 

Elements forming an integral part of artistic, historical or religious monuments 
which have been dismembered, more than 100 years old. 

3. 

Pictures and paintings, other than those included in Category 4 or 5, executed 
entirely by hand on any material and in any medium1. 

(cid:208) 96/100/EC Art. 1 pt. (1)(a) 

4.  Water-colours,  gouaches  and  pastels  executed  entirely  by  hand  on  any 

material1. 

(cid:208) 96/100/EC Art. 1 pt. (1)(b) 

5.  Mosaics in any material executed entirely by hand, other than those falling in 
Categories 1 or 2, and drawings in any medium executed entirely by hand on 
any material1. 

(cid:208) 96/100/EC Art. 1 pt. (1)(c) 

(cid:208) 93/7/EEC 

6.  Original  engravings,  prints,  serigraphs  and  lithographs  with  their  respective 

plates and original posters1. 

7.  Original sculptures or statuary and copies produced by the same process as the 

original1 other than those in category1. 

8. 

9. 

Photographs, films and negatives thereof1. 

Incunabula  and  manuscripts,  including  maps  and  musical  scores,  singly  or  in 
collections1. 

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10.  Books more than 100 years old, singly or in collections. 

11.  Printed maps more than 200 years old. 

12.  Archives  and  any  elements  thereof,  of  any  kind,  on  any  medium,  comprising 

elements more than 50 years old. 

13. 

(a)  Collections2 and specimens from zoological, botanical, mineralogical or 

anatomical collections; 

(b)  Collections2  of  historical,  palaeontological,  ethnographic  or  numismatic 

interest. 

14.  Means of transport more than 75 years old. 

15.  Any  other  antique  item  not  included  in  categories  A.1  to  A.14,  more  than 

50 years old. 

The cultural objects in categories A.1 to A.15 are covered by this Directive only if 
their value corresponds to, or exceeds, the financial thresholds set out in Part B. 

B. 

Financial thresholds applicable to certain categories under A (in euro) 

(cid:208) 2001/38/EC Art. 1 pt. (1) 

(cid:208) 93/7/EEC 

VALUE: 

Whatever the value 

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1 (Archaeological objects) 

2 (Dismembered monuments) 

9 (Incunabula and manuscripts) 

12 (Archives) 

15 000 

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5 (Mosaics and drawings) 

6 (Engravings) 

8 (Photographs) 

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the  Court  of  Justice 

As  defined  by 
follows: 
‘Collectors’ pieces within the meaning of Heading No 99.05 of the Common Customs Tariff are articles 
which possess the requisite characteristics for inclusion in a collection, that is to say, articles which are 
relatively rare, are not normally used for their original purpose, are the subject of special transactions 
outside the normal trade in similar utility articles and are of high value.’ 

in  Case  252/84,  as 

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11 (Printed maps) 

30 000 

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4 (Water colours, gouaches and pastels) 

(cid:208) 96/100/EC Art. 1 pt. (2) 

(cid:208) 93/7/EEC 

50 000 

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– 

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7 (Statuary) 

10 (Books) 

13 (Collections) 

14 (Means of transport) 

15 (Any other item) 

150 000 

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3 (Pictures) 

The  assessment  of  whether  or  not  the  conditions  relating  to  financial  value  are 
fulfilled  must  be  made  when  return  is  requested.  The  financial  value  is  that  of  the 
object in the requested Member State. 

(cid:208) 2001/38/EC Art. 1 pt. (2) 
(adapted) 

For  the  Member  States  which  do  not  have  the  euro  as  their  currency,  the  values 
expressed in euro in ⌦ this ⌫ Annex shall be converted and expressed in national 
currencies  at  the  rate  of  exchange  on  31  December  2001  published  in  the  Official 
Journal  of  the  European  Union.  This  countervalue  in  national  currencies  shall  be 
reviewed  every  two  years  with  effect  from  31  December  2001.  Calculation  of  this 
countervalue shall be based on the average daily value of those currencies, expressed 
in euro, during the 24 months ending on the last day of August preceding the revision 
which  takes  effect  on  31  December.  The  Advisory  Committee  on  Cultural  Goods 
shall  review  this  method  of  calculation,  on  a  proposal  from  the  Commission,  in 
principle two years after the first application. For each revision, the values expressed 
in euro and their countervalues in national currency shall be published periodically in 
the  Official  Journal  of  the  European  Union  in  the  first  days  of  the  month  of 
November preceding the date on which the revision takes effect. 

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ANNEX II 

Part A 

Repealed Directive with list of its successive amendments 
(referred to in Article 19) 

Council Directive 93/7/EEC 

(OJ L 74, 27.3.1993, p. 74) 

Directive 96/100/EC of the European Parliament 
and of the Council 

(OJ L 60, 1.3.1997, p. 59) 

Directive 2001/38/EC of the European Parliament 
and of the Council 

(OJ L 187, 10.7.2001, p. 43) 

Part B 

List of time-limits for transposition into national law 
(referred to in Article 19) 

Directive 

Time-limit for transposition 

93/7/EEC 

96/100/EC 

2001/38/EC 

15.12.19931 

1.9.1997 

31.12.2001 

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The time-limit for transposition for Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands was 15 March 1994. 

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ANNEX III 

CORRELATION TABLE 

Directive 93/7/EEC 

This Directive 

Article 1, point (1), first indent  

Article 1, point (1)(a) 

Article 1, point (1), second indent 

Article 1, point (1)(b) 

Article 1, point (1), second indent, sub-indent  Article 1, point (1)(b)(i) 

Article  1,  point  (1),  second  indent,  first  sub-
indent, second subparagraph 

Article 1, point (2) 

Article 1 point (1), second indent, second sub-
indent 

Article 1, point (1)(b)(ii) 

Article 1, point (2), first indent 

Article 1, point (3)(a) 

Article 1, point (2), second indent 

Article 1, point (3)(b) 

Article 1, points (3) to (7) 

Article 1, points (4) to (8) 

Articles 2 to 4 

Articles 2 to 4 

Article 5, first paragraph 

Article 5, first paragraph 

Article 5, second paragraph, first indent 

Article 5, second paragraph, point (a) 

Article 5, second paragraph, second indent 

Article 5, second paragraph, point (b) 

Articles 6 to 15 

Articles 6 to 15 

Article 16(1) and (2) 

Article 16(1) and (2) 

Article 16(3) 

Article 16(4) 

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Article 16(3) 

Articles 17 and 18 

Articles 17 and 18 

Article 19 

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Article 21 

Article 19 

Article 20 

Annex, Part A, points 1 to 3 

Annex I, Part A, points 1 to 3 

Annex, Part A, point 3A 

Annex I, Part A, point 4 

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Annex, Part A, points 4 to 14 

Annex I, Part A, points 5 to 15 

Annex, Part B 

Annex I, Part B 

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Annex II 

Annex III 

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