[A2k] Importation of educational, scientific and cultural materials

[Manon Ress]

Texts that experts might be interested in looking at: The Florence
Agreement (1950) and its Protocol known as the =91Protocol of Nairobi=92 (1=
976)

Find text at:
http://www.unesco.org/culture/laws/florence/html_eng/page1.shtml

Importation of educational, scientific and cultural materials

Purpose of the Agreement and its Protocol

The major purpose of the Agreement and the Protocol, as their titles
indicate, is to make it easier to import educational, scientific and
cultural materials. They reduce tariff, tax, currency and trade
obstacles to the international circulation of these materials,
permitting organizations and individuals to obtain them from abroad with
less difficulty and at less cost.

The Protocol broadens the scope of the Agreement, by extending the
benefits it offers to additional objects and by granting further
benefits to a number of materials.

The Agreement and the Protocol are sponsored by the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The Agreement was
initiated in accordance with one of the main constitutional objectives
of UNESCO which is to facilitate =91the exchange of publications, objects
of artistic and scientific interest and other materials of information=92
and to recommend international agreements which will promote =91the free
flow of ideas=92. Reaffirming these principles on which the Agreement is
based, the Protocol points to the accession since 1950 of many
developing countries to national sovereignty and to the necessity of
taking into account their needs and concerns with a view to giving them
easier and less costly access to education, science, technology and culture=
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