Site sections

The Activities section presents the Organisation's six missions: observe, regulate, protect, certify, train and arbitrate. The Market section publishes figures and analyses of the art economy, including the global market estimated at €67.8 bn in 2024.

The Protection section describes the work of the BIOP, the database of stolen or illicit works, which holds 48,200 works, and the operations coordinated with States, 23 of them in 2024.

The Certification section presents the Desk and its services: registration of works, authenticity, provenance, licences, conservation reports. It also gives the processing times and the documents issued.

The Training section describes the OIMAP Academy, which has trained 8,940 officials, and the Arbitration section details dispute settlement, with 342 disputes resolved to date.

The Regulation section brings together the reference texts: the 1954 Hague Protocol, the 1970 UNESCO Convention, the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention and the OIMAP Directives 2019. It is aimed at lawyers, administrations and professionals.

The Member States section is devoted to the Organisation's 67 States, the accession procedure, focal points and the restricted member area.

The About section presents the institution itself: mission and mandate, governance, General Secretariat, offices, partners, financial reports, careers, ethics, transparency, legal notices and site map.

It contains fifteen subsections. The pages on governance and the offices are among the most visited.

Member State administrations will find most of what they need in Member States, Regulation and Training. Market professionals, in Certification, Market and Regulation. Researchers and journalists, in Market, Protection and About.

A single question may fall under several sections. The breadcrumb trail and linked pages make it easy to move from one to another.