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The minister’s responsibility is confined to the main points of cultural policy. the “thorbecke principle”[1] states that governments should refrain from making an artistic judgement on cultural expressions. for this judgement, the minister relies on the council for culture [raad voor cultuur], the body that advises government and parliament on all (substantive) matters concerning culture and media policy. in accordance with the cultural policy (special purpose funding) act, the dutch government makes a financial contribution to a wide-ranging and varied cultural offering for all citizens and in all parts of the country by funding institutions and establishing policy programmes.for this reason, the basis of cultural policy in the netherlands is in accordance with the principles and objectives of the convention. [1] as chairman of the constitutional committee, the statesman johan rudolph thorbecke (1798 – 1872) laid the foundations of the dutch state in 1848. he led three governments as prime minister. best known from this period is thorbecke’s statement about the government’s position with regard to art: “art is not the business of government as the government cannot judge art, nor yet control it”. what thorbecke meant by this was that he, as a person, was indeed interested in art but that the government was no judge of science or art.