PRAGUE (JTA) — Forty-six countries ratified a document aimed at easing the restitution process for Jewish property taken during the Holocaust.

The Terezin Declaration, a nonbinding set of guiding principles aimed at faster, more open and transparent restitution of art, private and communal property taken by force or under duress during the Holocaust, was approved Monday at the Prague Holocaust Era Assets Conference.

It was set to be signed this week at the four-day gathering organized by the Czech Republic under the auspices of the rotating European Union Presidency, which the Central European country now holds.

The document, whose signatories will include the 27 countries of the European Union, Canada, Israel and the United States, also calls for greater commitment to the care of Holocaust survivors, Holocaust education and Jewish cemetery preservation.