Sweden
National Regualtions
The Historic Environment Act (1988:950), the Historic Environment Ordinance (1988:1188) and the Act concerning Penalties for Smuggling (2000:1225).
EU regulations
The licence for the export of cultural goods from the European customs territory is subject to Council Regulation (EC) No. 116/2009 of 18 December 2008 on the export of cultural goods (OJ L 39, 10.2.2009, p. 1). Exports to the internal market, however, are subject to national regulations, which may differ from the Council regulation with respect to the value and age thresholds of the categories of the protected cultural property.
Further information on the legal situation can be requested from the EUR-Lex Datenbank. The EU also maintains a special database for the regulations regarding the protection of cultural property.
The multilingual UNESCO Database of National Cultural Heritage Laws provides access to the relevant national legal bases. Another source of information on national cultural asset protection laws is the Sharing Electronic Resources and Laws On Crime (SHERLOC) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
This State Party to the UNESCO Convention of 14 November 1970 is also a State Party to the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegaly Exported Cultural Objects, which entered into force on 1 July 1998. The national legal bases are therefore also partially provided by the WIPO database.
The Historic Environment Act (1988:950) states in chapter five the substantive rules on the export of cultural goods, e.g.that older Swedish and foreign cultural goods of major importance to the national cultural heritage may not be taken out of Sweden without special permission.
The Historic Environment Ordinance (1988:1188) contains procedural provisions, in its annex the comprehensive list on categories requiring a permit is included.