BAMF
The British Art Market Federation was formed in 1996 to represent the interests of the UK’s large and diverse art and antiques market. Maintaining contacts with government, BAMF’s members range from trade bodies like The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association and The Antiquities Dealers Association, to The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and auction houses including Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams.
BAMF: how exemptions for ivory can work
08 January 2018The British Art Market Federation (BAMF) has explained how exemptions for antiques could work in practice once the government’s proposed ivory ban comes into effect.
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Ivory consultation: BAMF makes sacrifices in strategic pitch
08 January 2018Focus on ‘museum quality’ and certification, says British Art Market Federation...
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BAMF chief: ‘We’re gathering data to make EU-national hiring case to government’
01 August 2017Art market leaders are gathering facts and figures on the sector’s need to retain and hire staff from the EU after Brexit to present to the Home Office.
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Arts minister says he will "do all he can to support" art market interests
19 July 2017The new arts minister John Glen MP has vowed he will do all he can to support the art market’s interests in government.
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British Art Market Federation report heads to Parliament
17 July 2017The priorities, concerns and opportunities for the British art market are being taken directly to government with a new report launched this week.
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Anthony Browne: Our man in Westminster
17 July 2017The art market’s chief spokesperson pursues a policy of quiet diplomacy. Now armed with a new report on the British art market, Anthony Browne has something he wants to shout about
Election 2017: time to ‘get our voices heard’
24 April 2017Trade bodies line up to make the case for art and antiques sector
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Trade bodies seek multi-pronged Brexit lobbying plan ahead of Great Repeal Act
10 April 2017The art and antiques trade is taking its Brexit concerns directly to government with the submission of a series of policy documents asking that art market interests are recognised.
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Trade bodies unite to fight tax reforms that impact art and antiques trade
11 November 2016Efforts to protect the trade’s Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) against tax reforms gathered steam this week with the publication of a letter from three leading trade associations in the Financial Times.
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Trade associations aim for talks with new UK government
19 July 2016British Art Market Federation chairman Anthony Browne has written to Karen Bradley, the newly-appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, in the hope of arranging a face-to-face briefing.
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Protest at new EU proposals to tackle looters and a ‘potentially misleading’ survey
09 June 2016The EU’s planned crackdown on terrorism funding and the way it is investigating possible legislation is a ‘big concern to the trade’.
Lord Inglewood named as new BAMF president
03 March 2014The British Art Market Federation have announced that Lord Inglewood is to be their new president.
Call to wrest art market laws back from EU
21 August 2013The British Art Market Federation (BAMF) has called on the government to reclaim major powers regulating the UK’s art market from the European Union and return them to Parliament in London.
Australia sets up its own version of BAMF
16 May 2011THE Australian art and antiques industry has formed its own version of the British Art Market Federation following what it calls “several years of uncertainty in the Australian art market”.
BAMF fights bid to move export licensing unit to Birmingham
08 June 2009BRITISH Art Market Federation chairman Anthony Browne is fighting a rearguard action against the unexpected news that the Export Licensing Unit is to move to Birmingham.
DACS’ figures show artist levy is a failure – BAMF
22 January 2007THE British Art Market Federation have launched a new attack on Droit de Suite following the release of figures showing how the levy has performed in its first year.
Lords call for national regulation
12 April 2006BAMF urge fight against piecemeal London Bill THE House of Lords committee that is looking into the London Local Authorities Bill has urged the Government to find a national solution to the regulation of the market in secondhand goods.
London faces its own version of the Kent Act
27 March 2006BAMF call on parliament to hold off in favour of nationwide legislation
BAMF ease Import VAT fears
08 March 2005A POSSIBLE hike in import VAT linked to works of art sold in the UK is not the threat some fear, says British Art Market Federation chairman Anthony Browne.
BAMF help trade avoid blight under anti-looting Act
07 July 2003LAST-minute efforts to persuade the Government to amend legislation that could prove damaging to the honest trade in antiques looked set to pay off as the Antiques Trade Gazette went to press.
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