[meteorite-list] International Laws related to meteorites link - good info

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:56:23 +0200
Message-ID: <00af01cd65c7$0cb024a0$26106de0$_at_de>

UNESCO-1970 is not a law, but it is a convention to harmonize national laws
of the signing states.

Meteorites can be protected only by national laws.
(Like e.g Namibia, Canada, Australia, South-Africa did).

That is given in the convention's text.


Schmitt's information on Argentina is outdated.

The information on New Zealand is wrong.

The information on India doubtful.

Also Switzerland has a different procedure.

(And also from hearsay - under certain circumstances it seems possible for a
finder to keep his Danekrae).


Hence,
that paper is not a reliable source.

Martin
Received on Thu 19 Jul 2012 11:56:23 AM PDT