Ordinance
on the International Transfer of Cultural Property
(Cultural Property Transfer Ordinance, CPTO)

(Art. 15 para. 1 and 16 para. 2 let. c CPTA)

¹ Fed­er­al in­sti­tu­tions and per­sons act­ive in the art trade and in the auc­tion busi­ness must re­cord the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion and re­tain the cor­res­pond­ing doc­u­ments:

a.

a de­scrip­tion of the cul­tur­al prop­erty;

b.

the ori­gin of the cul­tur­al prop­erty, to the ex­tent known;

c.

the de­tails of iden­tity in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 17;

d.

the de­clar­a­tion of the right of dis­pos­al in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 18;

e.

the ac­tu­al trans­fer date of cul­tur­al prop­erty;

f.

the pur­chase price of the cul­tur­al prop­erty or its ap­praised value on trans­ac­tions for third-party ac­counts.

² The doc­u­ments must be stored so that they can eas­ily be made avail­able to the au­thor­it­ies with­in a reas­on­able time for any re­quests for in­form­a­tion or seizure.