Cependant, la question de la propriété de biens culturels pillés pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale se trouve hors du champ d’application de ces deux instruments. Ceux-ci visent à concilier le principe fondamental de la libre circulation des biens culturels avec celui de la protection des trésors nationaux.
The ownership of cultural property looted during the Second World War is an issue that falls outside the scope of both of these instruments, however, since their aim is to reconcile the basic principle of the free circulation of cultural property with that of the protection of national treasures.