Romania

Art. 12

(1) Classification shall be performed on the basis of an expertise report elaborated by experts or specialists licensed by the National Commission of Museums and Collections.

(at 16th of April 2004 Chapter II, art. 3, paragraph 12, paragraph (1) modified by art. 1, paragraph 6 of Law 105/2004)

(2) The classification of an object must be completed within 3 months from the moment the procedure of classification began.

(3)The competent scientific organism proficient in deciding on the classification submitting is the National Commission of Museums and Collections.

(4)The classification decision will be signed by the president of the National Commission of Museums and Collections and will be approved by the Minister of Culture’s order, within the term stipulated under paragraph (2).

(5)The conclusions of the expertise report identifying the respective movable cultural object, the standard datasheet of the object and a colour or black and white photograph will be attached to the classification decision.

(6)In the case of movable cultural objects that were not submitted for classification, the conclusions of the expertise report containing the identification data of the goods will be communicated to the bearers of other real rights within 30 days after the expertise is over.

(7)The expertise of the movable cultural objects that were not submitted to classification can be contested at the National Commission of Museums and Collections within 10 days after the handbill of the expert or specialist is received. The result of the contestation will be communicated within 20 days.

(at 16th of April 2004 Chapter II, art. 12, paragraph (7), modified by art. 1, paragraph 6 of Law 105/2004)