This is a short document referencing and setting into force NORME din 20 august 2008 de clasare a bunurilor culturale mobile. This is a document providing an overview of the procedures and criteria that goes in the listing of movable cultural assets. It starts by providing a typology of the assets that fall under this category, followed by a list of general criteria (e.g. age, state of conservation) and specific criteria (the historical and documentary value, memorial value, authenticity, author, workshop or school and the formal quality – he criterion for assessing whether a cultural object is an important artistic achievement, a work of outstanding or exceptional visual expressiveness, or a work that is distinguished by its technical characteristics (including its material support), uniqueness or rarity of conception and creativity).
The document also points out the process behind the transfer of a movable cultural object from one legal category to another category of national cultural heritage. At the end there are six annexes (such as, for example, the one comprising information on the person demanding the asset to be listed as movable cultural heritage, or the standard form on the expert’s report).