Payment of the fair compensation and of the expenses referred to in Articles 10 and 11 respectively shall be without prejudice to the requesting Member State ' s right to take action with a view to recovering those amounts from the persons responsible for the unlawful removal of the cultural object from its territory.
La présente directive n ' est applicable qu ' aux biens culturels qui ont quitté illicitement le territoire d ' un État membre à partir du 1er janvier 1993.