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Establishment of a Network of European Restitution Committees
The CIVS, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2019, will manage the Network during its first year.
Return of 12 works to the heirs of Armand Dorville
On the recommendation of the CIVS, Prime Minister Jean Castex has decided to return to the descendants of the Jewish lawyer Armand Dorville twelve works acquired by the French State in 1942. These artworks are currently in the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay and the Château de Compiègne.
A new panel for the CIVS
On 16 September, the deliberative panel of the CIVS was renewed by decree published in the Official Journal.
Death of M. Pierrot Kauffmann, member of the Deliberative Pane
Mr. Michel Jeannoutot, president of the CIVS, Mr. Jean-Pierre Le Ridant, director,
Four more works returned on December 22, 2021
On December 22, 2021, four more MNR works were returned on the recommendation of the CIVS.
The CIVS is moving
On October 9th, 2017 the CIVS will move to 20, avenue de Ségur, PARIS VIIe
Germany returns five books from Georges Mandel's spoliated library
On July 15, the Prime Minister presided over the ceremony for the restitution of books from the spoliated library of former minister Georges Mandel. This restitution follows a recommendation from the CIVS in February 2021, and at the will of two German libraries to return them to their rightful owners.
The CIVS in New York
The Commission (CIVS), which held sessions overseas twice in 2006, in the United States
A first bill for the return or restitution of looted works of art
In summer 2020 the Commission underlined the need for a legislation to allow the removal of looted artworks from public collections. In his Report addressed to the Prime Minister, the President of the CIVS also recommended the adoption of such a bill, which alone “will make it possible to meet the requirement of memory, justice and efficiency” expected.
New attributions for the CIVS
A decree of 1 October modified the assignen of the CIVS, conferring on it new prerogatives for stolen works of art.