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These Regulations may be cited as the Return of Cultural Objects (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st January 2002.
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(1) The Return of Cultural Objects Regulations 1994 shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) at the end there shall be inserted “ and Directive 2001/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council”.
(3) In regulation 2(3) the words “in United Kingdom currency” shall be omitted and at the end there shall be inserted “and for the purposes of converting the financial thresholds into United Kingdom currency the values expressed in euro in the Schedule shall be converted at the rate of exchange on 31 December 2001 published in the Official Journal of the European Communities ”.
(4) In the Schedule to the Regulations—
(a) for the figure and word “0 (Zero)” there shall be substituted the words “Whatever the value”; and
(b) for the figure “£11,900.00” there shall be substituted the figure “€15,000.00”; and
(c) for the figure “£23,800.00” there shall be substituted the figure “€30,000.00”; and
(d) for the figure “£39,600.00” there shall be substituted the figure “€50,000.00”; and
(e) for the figure “£119,000.00” there shall be substituted the figure “€150,000.00”.
Tessa Blackstone
Minister of State,
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
10th December 2001