Fighting the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property: A Toolkit for European Judiciary and Law Enforcement

This document consists of a toolkit providing basic reference materials and legal tools for fighting illicit trafficking of cultural property. It can be accessed through the website of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Digital Library.

This training manual, published during the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, offers a practical and comprehensive toolkit for the principal actors in this fight: the police, gendarmerie, customs, prosecutors, and judges. It outlines the international legal instruments and existing tools to enhance best practices and to improve European and international cooperation.

Some of the contents of the book are:

• Illicit trafficking of cultural property as an organized crime
• The international and regional legal framework for preventing the illicit trafficking of cultural property
• Mutual legal assistance and special investigative techniques