This month Italian government reaches decision on national oil company’s plan to extract gas from Adriatic

Our second Art Law Supplement examines cultural property export regulations; the legal loopholes in their international enforcement and the latest proposed solution: the controversial 1995 Unidroit Convention on Stolen and Illegally Exported Cultural Objects. We also deal with art and artists on the edge of society, in articles on censorship and the creations of the mentally ill

Dali's former secretary has been successful in his appeal

Culture minister proposes new heritage institution funded by public membership

Even the most hidebound museum or public institution has now woken up to new technologies

Dube reacts angrily to Russian delays over restitution and responds to the opposition of Irina Antonova, veteran director of the Pushkin Museum

While many details are yet to be fine-tuned, it should be ready to protect Europe's cultural treasures by the end of the year

Russia’s Deputy Culture Minister speaks about the need to establish a new cultural identity in the new Russia

A company owned 51% by the town council and 49% by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux

There are concerns however about how effective or restrictive this regulation will be

Conference in Prague on public galleries and private collectors hears of thefts and restitution claims in Eastern museums

Florence's soprintendente has described the proposal as “blackmail”

Read this and keep it if you’re an artist, a dealer, an auctioneer, a collector, a museum curator, an academic, a publisher, an advertiser, a sponsor, a restorer, an architect, a lawyer or an arts administrator—inside or outside Europe

A renewed emphasis on Western art is apparent

Stumbling blocks: attempts to define “national treasure” and abolition of passage of title in “good faith” purchases

Old historical ties revived as the Kunsthistorisches Museum, with government blessing, devises a conservation package

A commission will be set up at Gorbachev’s behest to look into cultural property removed to U.S.S.R.

Dondelinger proposes uniform controls on external borders and a restitution system

Glasnost has unveiled the ill kept secret of thousands of works of art, of archives and libraries taken to the USSR

The 56% cut means that nearly $25 million stands to be lost from an annual budget of $46.7 million

Neither the U.S.A. nor G.B. have ratified it, despite having insisted, with Turkey, on the inclusion of an exemption clause for military necessity

The 1954 convention is the product of nearly a century’s thought about cultural property in which it is implicit that it is the heritage of all mankind

But the technocrats of DGXXI, the Customs and Indirect Taxation Department, are drawing up the next set of proposals. To find out what this means, read on