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Chapter 1 requires that information be provided or existing information validated with regards to the basic data of the property (name, year of inscription, geographic coordinates, maps, social media presence), and also gathers information on the organizations or entities involved in the preparation of Section I of the report.
Please note that any change to the data prefilled in Questions 1.1 to 1.4 needs to be reviewed by the World Heritage Centre and/or the relevant Advisory Bod(y)ies and approved by the World Heritage Committee. Advice on the process to be followed can be found in the Operational Guidelines. The first step is to notify the World Heritage Centre.
This question has been prefilled using the basic data held on the World Heritage Centre database. It includes information such as the name of the State Party, type of property, World Heritage identification number, year of inscription on the World Heritage list and, if applicable, year of inscription on and removal from the List of World Heritage in Danger.
The table records information on the area in hectares of the property and, if applicable, of the buffer zone as inscribed by the World Heritage Committee. For serial sites, the table records details for each component part of the property. The table also records information held by the World Heritage Centre on the geographic coordinates of the property, which allows accurate locations to be recorded on global maps. The format for coordinates is latitude (i.e. degrees, minutes, seconds) and longitude (i.e. degrees, minutes, seconds).
Please note that any change to this information needs to be approved by the World Heritage Committee. The procedure and the deadline to submit a request for boundary modifications are outlined in Paragraphs 163-165 of the Operational Guidelines:
"163. A minor modification is one which has not a significant impact on the extent of the property nor affects its Outstanding Universal Value. 164. If a State Party wishes to request a minor modification to the boundaries of a property already on the World Heritage List, it shall submit this by 1 February to the Committee through the Secretariat, which will seek the advice of the relevant Advisory Bodies. The Committee can approve such modification, or it may consider that the modification to the boundary is sufficiently important to constitute an extension of the property, in which case the procedure for new nominations will apply.165. If a State Party wishes to significantly modify the boundary of a property already on the World Heritage List, the State Party shall submit this proposal as if it were a new nomination. This re-nomination shall be presented by 1 February and will be evaluated in the full year and a half cycle of evaluation according to the procedures and timetable outlined in paragraph 168. This provision applies to extensions, as well as reductions."
See also Annex 11 of the Operational Guidelines (Modifications to World Heritage Properties).
All the maps must be submitted to the World Heritage Centre by official letter, in two printed copies (three for mixed properties) and in an electronic version. The electronic version of the maps is needed in .jpg, .tiff or .pdf formats.
In order to ensure adequate quality, maps submitted to the World Heritage Centre should include the following requirements:
Please note that the Secretariat is always willing to review any draft maps. These can be sent electronically directly to the World Heritage Centre.
Please note that any modification to the boundaries of the World Heritage property as inscribed by the World Heritage Committee needs to be approved by the World Heritage Committee.
The procedure and the deadline to submit this change is indicated in Paragraphs 163-165 of the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention:
"163. A minor modification is one which has not a significant impact on the extent of the property nor affects its Outstanding Universal Value.
The table above contains (a) link(s) to the maps currently available in the World Heritage Centre database.
A high-quality map is a basic prerequisite for the proper conservation of a World Heritage property.
Maps of World Heritage properties inscribed between 1978–1998 were reviewed in the framework of the Retrospective Inventory launched in 2004. The States Parties concerned were requested to provide boundary clarifications, whenever necessary. To date, some boundary clarifications are still awaited and reminders have been sent to the States Parties concerned.
Maps of properties inscribed from 2007 until present have undergone the Nominations Completeness Check, as officially established in the revised version of the Operational Guidelines that came into force on 2 February 2005.
However, maps of properties inscribed between 1999–2006 had not been subject to any of the above two procedures, i.e. the Retrospective Inventory or the Completeness Check. Thus some improvement of the existing documentation for these properties may still be needed. Therefore, in order to ensure the best possible conservation of the property, we would greatly appreciate your cooperation in the verification of the maps of World Heritage properties inscribed between the years 1999 –2006 and, if necessary, to ensure the preparation of a new map showing the boundaries and buffer zone of the World Heritage property as inscribed.
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This records the URL of any official web site or social media pages (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Weibo etc.) of the World Heritage property. Please provide up-to-date URLs.
Chapter 4 gathers information on the range of factors that are currently affecting or have strong potential to affect the property, both positively and negatively.This chapter provides you with a generic list which has been developed to identify factors that could affect any type of World Heritage property. The factors are grouped into 13 headings, which are then briefly explained. Beneath each heading a list of factors appears. The set of factors is parallel to the set of threats in the World Heritage State of Conservation database (http://whc.unesco.org/en/factors/).
The first stage in the assessment is to click the box below each factor to indicate if this factor is relevant or not relevant to the property. If a factor was reported as causing an impact in the last Periodic Report, then you will automatically be asked to consider that factor in this cycle. Please note that this assessment is about both positive and negative factors.
If the factor is not relevant, then move on to the next factor; if the factor is relevant then a second line of assessment questions will appear.
This assessment will ask you about the impact and origin of the factor. If your property is a national or transnational serial site, then you will have the option of identifying which component(s) is/are affected by a particular factor in your answers to questions 4.15/4.16.
You will be asked to identify whether the impact of the factor is positive and/or negative; whether it is current and/or potential and whether the origin of the factor is inside and/or outside of the property. You will also be asked to specify whether the factor is having a decreasing, stable or increasing impact.
At the end of the list of factors there is an opportunity (question 4.14) to add any additional factors which affect the property but which have not been covered in 4.1 to 4.13.
Reactive Monitoring If your property has been the subject of a State of conservation report to the World Heritage Committee, within the framework of the Reactive Monitoring process, this link will open up the relevant entry in the World Heritage Centre’s Information System on the State of Conservation of World Heritage properties. This will provide you with a reminder of the factors which have affected your property in the past sufficiently seriously for it to be referred to the World Heritage Committee. The database uses the same classification of factors as that used in Periodic Reporting. Please note that you will be asked later about follow-up to decisions of the World Heritage Committee.