ABSTRACT
According to paragraph 1 of Article 1 of the Hague Convention, each High Contracting Party undertakes to prevent the exportation of cultural property from a territory occupied by it during an armed conflict. The paragraph thus covers all cultural property, movable and immovable, irrespective of its origin or ownership. To enable the aims of the Protocol to be achieved, each High Contracting Party undertakes to take into its custody cultural property imported into its territory either directly or indirectly from any occupied territory. The paragraph 4 of the final text of the Protocol imposed the obligation to pay an indemnity only on the occupying Contracting Party and not on the Parties into whose territory the property was imported or on the authorities of the territory previously occupied. The Protocol was signed as a separate document on 14 May 1954 by 22 States.
