The Boston MFA’s Accord with Italy

Regarding the antiquities agreement between Italy and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the article that the Boston Globe has posted on its website today provides many more details than the Globe article I linked to last night. (ArtsJournal posted the shorter version.)
My contribution to this story will be to translate for you (and raise some questions about) the brief text of the accord, posted on the Italian Cultural Ministry‘s website:
In a statement dated yesterday, the ministry reported that the two sides had “made significant progress on an agreement for cultural collaboration. The agreement includes: the transfer to Italy of objects in the museum’s collection that are of Italian provenance; the loan from Italy to the museum of works significant to the programs of the museum; and the institution of a procedure on the basis of which Italy and the museum will collaborate to assure the correctness of future acquisitions of art objects by the museum.”
The accord also envisions “future collaboration in scientific areas, conservation, archeological studies and exhibitions.”
No specific objects are listed. What’s more, according to the Associated Press, “the Italian Culture Ministry said both sides had agreed not to reveal the objects to be returned to Rome.”
We can only hope that the public will soon be appropriately informed of which objects will leave the museum’s collection. Inquiring minds also want to know what procedures Italy has in mind to assure “the correctness of future acquisitions.”