The cultural exception policy, introduced in France in 1993, asserts that cultural goods are to be treated differently from other commercial goods.
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Promoting international cooperation to facilitate the mobility of artists as well as the flow of cultural goods and services, especially those from the South.
Yet trade tends to increase diversity over time by accelerating the pace of change and bringing new cultural goods with each era or generation.
That while cultural goods, services and activities have important economic value, they are not mere commodities or consumer goods that can only be regarded as objects of trade.
France's ambassador to Nigeria, Jacques Champagne de Labriolle, told the BBC the artefacts' return was part of a global attempt to fight the "illegal trafficking of cultural goods".
This is why Unesco alerts states of their responsibility to protect culture properties in the event of conflict and to prohibit and prevent the illicit trafficking of cultural goods.
DCMS, which will be led by Tessa Jowell, also covers the National Lottery, export licensing of cultural goods, broadcasting (it oversees the BBC's licence fee settlement) film, press freedom and tourism.
The 2005 Convention is a legally-binding international agreement that ensures artists, cultural professionals, practitioners and citizens worldwide can create, produce, disseminate and enjoy a broad range of cultural goods, services and activities, including their own.
The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions ensures that artists, cultural professionals, practitioners and citizens worldwide can create, produce, disseminate and enjoy a broad range of cultural goods, services and activities, including their own.
The workshop was a follow-up to the strategic way forward established by the Southern African Member States during the meeting hosted by Namibia in September 2011 which addressed the issues of the illicit traffic of cultural goods and their restitution.
The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions is a legally-binding international agreement that ensures artists, cultural professionals, practitioners and citizens worldwide can create, produce, disseminate and enjoy a broad range of cultural goods, services and activities, including their own.
The Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions is a legally binding international agreement which aims to secure that artists, professionals in the area of culture and citizens all over the world are able to create, produce, distribute and enjoy a wide spectrum of cultural goods, services and activities, including their own culture.
Cultural products, goods and services have importance and meaning that go beyond their commercial value.
This convention is the first legal instrument to give recognition to the distinctive nature of cultural activities, goods and services as vehicles of identity, values and meaning.
But it must be galling to know that after he spent nearly five vain years entangled with the French bureaucracy, Paris granted permission to Arnault to build a cultural complex to house the collection owned by his luxury goods giant, LVMH Group.
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They take advantage of present artistic and cultural traditions in the communities and local knowledge, behaviours and social goods in order to work with their self esteem and to restore their lost feelings of self value, where killing and dying are trivial.
Mercer, a consulting firm, publishes a ranking of big cities each year based on an assessment of about 40 factors falling into ten categories (political, economic, cultural, medical, educational, public-service, recreational, consumer-goods, housing and environmental).
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