International Principles

The Commission for Looted Art in Europe monitors and promotes international progress in the implementation of the following international agreements for dealing with looted cultural property and its restitution:

• Inter-Allied Declaration against Acts of Dispossession committed in Territories under Enemy Occupation and Control, London 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
• 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 November 2003
• Joint Declaration of the European Commission and the Czech EU Presidency 29 June 2009
• Terezin Declaration 30 June 2009 
• Draft UNESCO Declaration of Principles Relating to Cultural Objects Displaced in Connection with the Second World War 2009
• Germany-USA Joint Declaration Concerning The Implementation of the Washington Principles from 1998 dated 26 November 2018
• Best Practices for the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art 5 March 2024