A number of changes have been made to the Restitutions Committee Procedural Regulations in order to remove possible ambiguities and to make the Restitutions Committee’s working practices clearer.
You can read the changes in the amended Regulations: Restitutions Committee Procedural Regulations 2023 (PDF file)
The Regulations that were applicable from 15 July 2021 and the associated notes can be read in the following PDF file: Restitutions Committee Procedural Regulations 2021.
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News
7 May 2010
The Restitutions Committee has issued a recommendation to the State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science concerning five claims to looted works of art. The recommendation advises that three claims be granted and two be rejected.
15 April 2015
De Restitutiecommissie brengt bindend advies uit over een claim op een schilderij uit de collectie van het Amsterdam Museum. Het gaat om het kunstwerk Portret van Joan Huydecoper, anoniem, naar Bartholomeus van der Helst.
15 September 2022
The Restitutions Committee rules that the painting Blick auf Murnau mit Kirche by the artist Wassily Kandinsky is to be restituted by Eindhoven City Council to the heirs of Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann (1874-1944). The Restitutions Committee concluded on the basis of new facts that it is sufficiently plausible that Margarethe Stern-Lippman lost possession involuntarily during the Nazi regime.
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