Franceschini clears Bonisoli: unblocked circulation of works under 13,500 euros

The ministerial decree of July 31, 2020, signed by Cultural Heritage Minister Dario Franceschini, which effectively unblocks the circulation of all works worth less than €13,500, was published in recent hours. The decree intervenes on another decree, the one signed on July 9, 2018 by former minister Alberto Bonisoli, which in turn intervened on Franceschini’s May 17, 2018 ministerial decree on the conditions, modalities and procedures for the international circulation of cultural goods.

The May 2018 decree established two novelties for the circulation of works: the first was the possibility of circulating works older than seventy years and with a value of less than €13,500 by simply making use of a self-certification (previously, it was necessary to send a request to the export office of the superintendency and remain waiting for the certificate of free circulation: a procedure that, given also the shortage of staff in the offices, was very long and required at least a month of waiting). The second was the activation of theregistry of the international circulation of cultural works, which was supposed to ensure the management of all goods in transit on the national territory, through the issuance of a “passport” lasting five years.

The Bonisoli decree had made the possibility of circulating works with self-certification conditional on the adaptation of the Export Offices System to implement the registry: the idea, in fact, was to have full control over what would be presented with self-certification. The problem, however, is that the registry is still waiting to be born, and in fact, with the Bonisoli decree, the new regulations could not come into effect. The Franceschini decree, by abolishing the paragraphs introduced by Bonisoli, effectively resolved the situation by unblocking the circulation of works worth less than 13,500 euros. The new decree then stipulated that by December 31, however, the technical specifications necessary for the activation of the electronic passport provided for in the May 17 decree must still be adopted.

Franceschini clears Bonisoli: unblocked circulation of works under 13,500 euros

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