Stefan Popov
Capital Weekly, November 10-16, 2009
The public interest in restricting property rights as regards archaeological valuables of "national treasury" rank is obvious, says Stefan Popov, Executive Director of RiskMonitor, in "Capital Weekly: it is barbarian and completely absurd that one becomes owner of, say, a golden chariot, or, for that reason, of the Holy Grail, based on a 5-year prescriptive right. But to ground this restriction in a requirement for the so called official document, a bureaucratic invention, is not a serious proposition. The legislator should have given a thought to how the Constitutional Court judges on the gravity of the two sides, property vs. documents. And it would have guessed right that the Court would take the side of the fundamental right, though against the apparent public interest.
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