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13 January

• Bibliography: background documents on the protection of the underwater cultural heritage

• Cultural Heritage Laws Database
  In 2003, UNESCO devised an international solution to combat the illicit traffic of cultural property: the Cultural Heritage Laws Database. By compiling on the Internet the national laws of its Member States, UNESCO offers all stakeholders involved (Governments, customs officials, art dealers, organizations, lawyers, buyers and so forth) a complete and easily accessible source of information. In the event of a legal question about the origin of an object (which may have been stolen, pillaged, or illegally exported, imported or acquired), it is useful to have rapid access to the relevant national laws.

7 January

• Prevention campaign: Illegal traffic of Cultural properties (Argentina)
  In order to increase awareness on the importance of protecting the Argentine cultural heritage, the national Secretariat of Culture implements, from December 2006, the Campaign against Illegal Traffic of Cultural property. The prevention and fight against illegal traffic of cultural property is a task that requires the work and joint effort of official and private organisms who, by their nature and competence, provide knowledge and tools that favorably affect the preservation and defense of the cultural heritage. The loss of the cultural property affects all the sectors of the population, as it strips of its collective cultural inheritance without distinction. Fighting sacking and illegal traffic of cultural property it is, therefore, a right whose exercise is only possible with the commitment and participation of all the community.

6 enero

• Ratification by Chile of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (Paris, 17 October 2003)
  On 10 December 2008, Chile deposited with the Director-General its instrument of ratification of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. In accordance with the terms of its Article 34, the aforementioned Convention will enter into force with respect to Chile three months after the date of the deposit of this instrument, that is to say on 10 March 2009.

• Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage enters into force in January 2009
  Twenty States have now ratified the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, which therefore enters into force on 2 January 2009, three months after the deposit of the 20th instrument of acceptance.