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The CIVS signs an agreement with the Cercle de Généalogie Juive
On 21 October 2016, at the CIVS headquarters, Michel Jeannoutot, Chairman of the CIVS, and Bruno Bloch, Chairman of the Cercle de Généalogie Juive, signed an agreement setting out the terms and conditions for a new cooperative undertaking.
The Senate conductes a review of the action of the CIVS
On June 6, Senator Marc Laménie presented on behalf of the Senate Finance Committee an information report on the review of 20 years of acitvity of CIVS.
Meeting at the CIVS on the subject of the painter Francis Harburger
On Friday September 23rd 2016, Sylvie Harburger came to the CIVS (Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation) to present her father Francis Harburger’s paintings and talk about her research, which has revealed two little-known aspects of the history of the spoliation of artworks.
The CIVS welcomes the partner commissions of its European network
On 5 April, the CIVS receives the representatives of the commissions in Europe who, like it, are working on the research and restitution of the cultural property looted.
The CIVS and the diplomatic archives renew a successful partnership
On Tuesday 4 July 2017, the Director of Archives of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Chairperson of the Commission pour l’Indemnisation des Victimes de Spoliations (CIVS – Commission for Compensating the Victims of Spoliations) signed the renewal of the convention that has linked those two departments of the State since April 2016.
Appointment of Frédérique Dreifuss-Netter as President of the CIVS
On the 24th of June 2024, Ms. Frédérique Dreifuss-Netter, Honorary Advisor to the Court of Cassation, was appointed by decree President of the CIVS.
CIVS and the embassador of France in Germany meet the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste
On January 17, 2018, a CIVS delegation traveled to Magdeburg, capital of the Land of Saxony-Anhalt, in order to meet the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste to lay the groundwork for future cooperation between the two services.
On proposal from the CIVS, the Prime Minister decides the restitution of a painting by Utrillo
On November 22, the Prime Minister decided the restitution of Eglise de Pont-Saint-Martin (Loire Atlantique), a painting by Maurice Utrillo taken from Stefan Osusky, former Ambassador of Czechoslovakia in Paris from 1921 to 1940. This decision is based on the CIVS recommendation dated 9 July 2021.
February 1, 2024: new purviews, new name, new deliberative panel of CIVS
The reform of the policy of restitution of cultural goods spoiled in the context of Anti-Semitic persecutions between 1933 and 1945, introduced by the law of July 22, 2023 and its decree of January 5, 2024, entered into force on February 1, 2024.
The CIVS participates in conference on Holocaust Era Assets in Prague from 26th to 30th June 2009
Commission representatives participate in this event which will mark the end of the European
