Morocco Adopts the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

RABAT – Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) would like to inform its clients that the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict for the Year 1954 has entered into force in Morocco as of October 29, 2009, based on the General Secretariat of the Moroccan Government.Morocco had ratified this Convention in February 2003. Articles 6, 10, and 20 of this Convention tackle the importance of distinctive marks for objects of cultural heritage in order to protect the ownership of these objects against any illegal form of importation, exportation or transportation.According to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, adopted at The Hague (Netherlands) in 1954, as a consequence to the massive destruction of the cultural heritage in the World War II, is the first international treaty of a worldwide vocation dedicated exclusively to the protection of cultural heritage in the event of armed conflict.This convention is considered the first of its kind which protects cultural property in the event of armed conflict, including artifacts, artwork, scrolls, books, and others.