CINOA welcomes the opportunity to provide comments to this call for evidence on the revision the Union Customs Code. We understand the available custom’s capacities of Member States are limited yet more than 350 pieces of EU legislation covering a wide range of diverse policy areas, such as product safety, environmental protection, climate change, intellectual property rights, dual use goods, protection of human and…
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CINOA
Industry association · Belgium · EU Transparency Register 498045729199-28
7
positions filed
in the 583 files tracked
6
legislative files
of 583 tracked
5
with a full position paper
attached to a submission
Counts here are a floor, never a total: they cover the 583 consultation files tracked so far (42,224 submissions, mostly 2025–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.
Who they are
Among the 1365 trade and business associations on this site, they rank #380 by legislative files engaged — a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
0.6
declared lobbying FTE
self-declared
€10K+
declared costs / yr (floor)
0
EP accreditations
as declared to the register
2017
in the register since
Declares membership of
- https://www.cinoa.org
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 2 Sept 2026).
- Register category
- Trade and business associations
- Registered as
- Confédération Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres d'Art (CINOA)
- Head office
- Bruxelles, Belgium
- EU office
- Brussels
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 2 Sept 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
CINOA filed 7 positions between 11 Mar 2020 and 19 Sept 2022, across 6 of the 583 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 5 times.
2020 · 2 filed2021 · 4 filed2022 · 1 filed
What they argued
As representatives of the art and antiques trade, CINOA supports effective measures against money laundering and terrorist financing and would like to work with the EU institutions to help provide information and insight into the art market sector and the sector’s business practices.
As representatives of the art and antiques trade, CINOA supports effective measures against money laundering and terrorist financing and would like to work with the EU institutions to help provide information and insight into the art market sector and the sector’s business practices.
CINOA understands that Member States are responsible for the establishment but remain free to introduce rules going beyond those laid out in the package of proposals of which this draft Directive is a part, but only if they are justified on a risk-based approach.
CINOA is the principal international confederation of art & antique dealer associations (www.cinoa.org). Established in 1935, CINOA is the global leader in representing the international art and antiques trade, setting benchmark standards for the industry and promoting a responsible art trade.
Conservation of cultural heritage is threaten by insensitive bio-diversity legislation Special attention should be given by the Commission to ensuring that new measures do not prevent the conservation and exchange of historical worked objects made of, or including elements of, organic materials that fall within the scope of this initiative.
CINOA is the principal international confederation of art & antique dealer associations (www.cinoa.org). Established in 1935, CINOA is the global leader in representing the international art and antiques trade, setting benchmark standards for the industry and promoting a responsible art trade. In our comments below we have only addressed the wildlife control measures taken in respect to antique ivory items.
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