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The International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS)Comité International du Bouclier Bleu (CIBB)The Hague Convention on the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflictSecond Protocol of the Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property Comes Into ForceThe International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS) welcomes the entry into force, on 9 March 2004, of the 1999 Second Protocol to the to the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. With the accession of Costa Rica, the 20th state to have acceded on 9 December 2003, the necessary number of states for its coming into force has now been achieved. The Second Protocol greatly strengthens and clarifies cultural protection. It introduces new measures, including the designation of a new category of cultural property under Enhanced Protection. It also establishes an Intergovernmental Committee responsible mainly for supervising the implementation of the Convention and the Second Protocol, and an International Fund for the Protection of Cultural Heritage. The Second Protocol completes the Hague Convention. It is not retrospective, and it does not bind those states that have not adopted it by ratification or accession. Costa Rica joins 19 States which have already ratified or acceded to the Second Protocol: Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Honduras, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Lithuania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Qatar, Serbia and Montenegro, and Spain. For more information on the 1954 Hague Convention and 1999 Second Protocol: http://www.unesco.org/culture/laws/hague/html_eng/protocol2.shtml Joan van Albada Links:  Firts Protocol to the Hague Convention The list of States Parties to the First Protocol - (The Hague, 14 May 1954)
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