4. Suggests, in this context, that the Commission envisage creating, in line with paragrap
h 17 of UN Security Council Resolution 2199 of 12 February 2015, a cross-cutting department which would be in charge of the prevention of and the fight against illicit trade in cultural artefacts, with a unit dedicated specifically to items of cultural heritage illegally removed from Iraq since 6 August 1990 and from Syria since 15 March 2011; suggests also that this department should devise a coordinated approach to combating that illegal trade, working together with those responsible at national level in the investigation services and in close co
...[+++]operation with UNESCO and other international organisations, such as ICOM (International Council of Museums), the ICOM’s International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS), Europol, Interpol, UNIDROIT (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law), WCO (World Customs Organisation), ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) and ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property);