International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
Recent meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.
Mission & Goals
The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, ILAB, is an international federation of 22 national antiquarian booksellers' associations with over 1600 individual affiliated businesses in 38 countries. It strives to uphold and improve professional standards in the trade, to promote honourable conduct in business, and to contribute in various ways to a broader appreciation of the history and art of the book.
EU Legislative Interests
Engage with members of the European Commission following our appointment as an expert for a working group on a dialogue with the art market, created as a sub-group to the European Commission expert group ‘Cultural Heritage Expert Group’.
Communication Activities
ILAB regularly informs its members and stakeholders on developments relating to the European Union and national legislation.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
ILAB is an Associate Member of CINOA, the Confédération Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres d'Art https://www.cinoa.org/
Organisation Members
22 national antiquarian booksellers associations are a member of ILAB. ILAB's members are the associations, not the individual bookselling firms. The individual firms are members of one of the 22 national antiquarian booksellers associations. All of ILAB's members, the 22 national antiquarian bookselllers' associations, are listed on our website here: https://ilab.org/page/associations
Connected Legislation
USA: Use of traditional wine designations
EU-Argentina: Bulgaria & Romania accession concessions
Behalf of the European Union, of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the Union and Norway relating to the modification of concessions on all the tariff-rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union
Behalf of the European Union, of the Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Chile pursuant to Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions on all the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union
Customs duties modification: imports from Russia and Belarus
Amendment: Removing Kazakhstan from Regulation (EU) 2015/755 list
Imports of certain products originating in the United States of America
The protection of geographical indications for agricultural products and foodstuffs
Amendment: Generalised tariff preferences (Reg 978/2012)
Import of cultural goods
Practices for the maintenance of varieties of agricultural plant species carried out in the United Kingdom
Extension of Council Decision 2003/17/EC and update of third country names
Common organisation of the seed market
Customs security measures
Agricultural operations requiring Custom Information System entry
Integrated Border Management Fund: Customs control equipment support
Regulation on the establishement of a monitoring and evaluation framework
EU tomato imports from Morocco (Petition 1565/2009)
Emergency autonomous trade preferences for Pakistan
Certain products
Amendment to Regulation (EU) 2018/196 on additional customs duties on imports of certain products originating in the United States of America
All the tariff-rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union
Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions on all the tariff-rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union
Goods originating in Ukraine
Certain Poultry Meat Products
Amendment to Regulation (EU) 2018/196 on additional customs duties on imports of certain products originating in the United States of America
Amendment: Tariff quotas for Argentina (Reg 2020/760)
The import of certain goods originating in the United States of America and opening of tariff quotas for imports of certain goods originating in the United States of America
The Windsor Framework
EU-China: Modification of Croatia's accession concessions
All the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union
Trade conditions: Northern Cyprus (non-government controlled areas)
Tariffs and Trade 1994)
Amendment to Regulation (EU) 2018/196 on additional customs duties on imports of certain products originating in the United States of America
Goods originating in Ukraine
Imports of certain products originating in the United States of America (codification)
All the tariff-rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union
All the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union
Amendment to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
Common rules for exports (codification)
Imports of certain goods
EU-Norway: Additional trade preferences for agricultural products
Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions on all the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union
Suspension of Regulation (EU) 2015/478: Ukrainian imports
Safeguard clauses for temporary withdrawal of EU trade preferences
Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 relating to the modification of concessions in the schedule of the Republic of Croatia in the course of its accession to the European Union
Amendment to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
Amendment to Regulation (EU) 2018/196 on additional customs duties on imports of certain products originating in the United States of America
Generalised tariff preferences (2009-2011)
Tariff preferences withdrawal & safeguard measures (Reg 978/2012)