By Year
37. When examining the proposal to extend Kakadu National Park (Australia), the Committee recognised that there were no indications in the "Operational Guidelines" for States Parties in proposing extensions to sites inscribed on the World Heritage List. The Committee therefore requested the Secretariat to incorporate such indications, particularly concerning the documentation to be made available to enable the Bureau and the Committee to examine such proposals.
Session: 11th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 005)
Year: 1987
Session: 11th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 005)
Year: 1987
42. The representative of Algeria noted that the present composition of the World Heritage Committee was somewhat imbalanced in terms of geographical representation, with a particular lack of representation of African States Parties. This meant that there was a resulting imbalance in the representation of cultural regions. The Algerian representative suggested that the Bureau and the Committee should re-examine the voting procedure for the General Assembly of States Parties.
43. The Committee agreed that there was a need to ensure an equitable representation of the different regions and ...
Session: 11th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 005)
Year: 1987
Session: 11th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 005)
Year: 1987
12. The Chairman of the Working Group, H.E. Ananda Guruge (Sri Lanka) presented the recommendations drafted by the Working Group. He stressed how important it was that the work of the Committee be facilitated through careful preparation and submittance of nominations of cultural properties by States Members, a more active Secretariat contribution when checking files, and a selective presentation of proposals by ICOMOS and by the Bureau. He also noted the progress that could be achieved through a reorganization of the Committee's agenda. The Chairman of the Working Group clarified that ...
Session: 12th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 001)
Year: 1988
Session: 12th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 001)
Year: 1988
20. The Secretary presented document SC-88/CONF.001/3 on the revision of the Operational Guidelines for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention. The Committee noted that the modifications proposed in this document resulted from three different actions, namely:
changes introduced in accordance with the Committee's decisions concerning the monitoring of cultural properties, the procedure for nomination of extensions to World Heritage properties and assistance for promotional activities;
modifications required to update the Operational Guidelines to make them conform with ...
Session: 12th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 001)
Year: 1988
Session: 12th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 001)
Year: 1988
23. The Committee recalled that the revised versions of forms for nominating sites for inscription on the World Heritage List and for requesting international assistance from the World Heritage Fund had been prepared in accordance with the Operational Guidelines and had been already examined by the Bureau at its 13th session. The Bureau members had since then provided comments which were incorporated in the documents submitted to the Committee. The Committee adopted these revised documents in principle, requesting the Committee members to send any additional suggestions they may have to ...
Session: 13th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 004)
Year: 1989
Session: 13th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 004)
Year: 1989
CONF 004 VIII.19-24
Monitoring of the State of Conservation of World Heritage Cultural Properties and Related Technical Problems
Session: 14th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 004)
Year: 1990
Sites: Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
Country: Egypt Libya
56. The Committee examined Document SC-91/CONF.002/10 and recommended that the Secretariat in co-operation with the International Union for Geological Sciences (IUGS), IUCN, and other experts proceed with the revision of the natural heritage criteria to reflect separately geological, biological, ecological and aesthetic phenomena and modify the requested conditions of integrity accordingly. The Committee requested the Secretariat and IUCN to co-operate in the revision of the natural heritage criteria and the conditions of integrity in order to submit draft proposals for the consideration ...
Session: 15th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 002)
Year: 1991
Session: 15th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 002)
Year: 1991
CONF 002 VII.1-3
Presentation of the Evaluation Report on the Implementation of the Convention and the Draft Strategy for the Future
Session: 16th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 002)
Year: 1992
XIII.1 Natural Heritage Criteria
XIII.1.1 The Bureau examined document WHC-92/CONF.002/10 in the light of introductory remarks made by the Representative of IUCN and changes proposed by the Delegation of the United States of America. The Committee adopted the revised natural heritage criteria and the conditions of integrity amended in accordance with the proposals made by the United States Delegation. The Committee requested the Centre to revise the Operational Guidelines accordingly and submit them to the Bureau for verification and approval so that the revised criteria for ...
Session: 16th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 002)
Year: 1992
Session: 16th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 002)
Year: 1992
XIV.1 The former Rapporteur of the Committee introduced the working document WHC-93/CONF.002/11 consisting of a revised text of the Operational Guidelines concerninq the implementation of the World Heritage Convention. This text took into consideration the request of the Committee, expressed at its session in Santa Fe in 1992, that the Strategic Orientations be incorporated in the Guidelines, together with the proposals made by two States Parties, Italy and the United States of America. He explained that the Bureau, at its seventeenth session (Paris, June 1993) examined the proposed ...
Session: 17th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 002)
Year: 1993
Session: 17th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 002)
Year: 1993
CONF 003 IX.1-19
Monitoring of the State of Conservation of the World Heritage Cultural and Natural Properties
Session: 18th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 003)
Year: 1994
XIV.1 Work Group 2 examined working document WHC94/CONF.003/9Rev., particularly the proposed revisions of the Operational Guidelines regarding the 'criteria for the inclusion of cultural properties in the World Heritage List', 'monitoring and reporting' and the 'timetable for the processing of nominations'.
XIV.2 The Committee decided that the following proposals, that had not been examined by the Work Group, should be brought forward to the nineteenth session of the Bureau in July 1995: 'deadline for presentation of requests for technical assistance', 'establishment of the World ...
Session: 18th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 003)
Year: 1994
Session: 18th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 003)
Year: 1994
CONF 003 XVII
Date and Place of the Nineteenth Session of the Bureau of the World Heritage Committee
Session: 18th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 003)
Year: 1994
XVII.1 The Secretariat introduced the Working Document and recalled that the Committee at its eighteenth session decided that the following specific revisions of the Operational Guidelines should be examined by the Bureau at its nineteenth session.
A. Chapter I, Section C of the operational Guidelines: CRITERIA FOR THE INCLUSION OF CULTURAL PROPERTIES IN THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST (DEFINITION OF AND CRITERIA FOR CULTURAL PROPERTIES)
Based upon the results of four regional and thematic expert meetings that were held in 1994 and 1995 on 'Heritage Canals' (Canada, 15-19 September 1994), ...
Session: 19th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 203)
Year: 1995
Session: 19th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 203)
Year: 1995
CONF 201 IX.C.8-15
Progress Report on the Global Strategy and Thematic Studies: Global Strategy for Natural Heritage
Session: 20th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 201)
Year: 1996
CONF 201 XVII.1-9
Revision of the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention
Session: 20th session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 201)
Year: 1996
CONF 203 XIV.1-11
Revision of the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention
Session: 22nd session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 203)
Year: 1998
VII.1 The Chairperson introduced item 7 and recalled the origin of the creation of this consultative body (twentieth session of the Committee, December 1996, Merida, Mexico). He informed the delegates of the relevant documents and requested the Director of the Centre to present the item.
VII.2 The Director of the Centre took the floor and described the content of the Working Document and summarized the decisions to be taken that he proposed for submission to the Committee. The decision concerning the technical questions, amended by Benin, were adopted as follows:
The Committee requested ...
Session: 23rd session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 209)
Year: 1999
Session: 23rd session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 209)
Year: 1999
XIII.2 The Secretariat recalled that the Operational Guidelines have been revised many times over the last twenty years and are generally considered as requiring substantial editing and reorganization. In 1998 a Global Strategy meeting for cultural and natural heritage experts was held in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The meeting discussed the application of the "test of authenticity" and the "conditions of integrity", the question of a unified set of criteria for cultural and natural heritage and the notion of "outstanding universal value". The report of the Amsterdam meeting was ...
Session: 23rd session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 209)
Year: 1999
Session: 23rd session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 209)
Year: 1999
XIII.13 The Committee considered the revision to paragraph 65 of the Operational Guidelines as recommended by the Bureau at its twenty-third session. The Committee recalled that discussions took place at the twenty-second session of the Committee and the twenty-third session of the Bureau on the proposal made by the Delegate of Italy, and that a working group chaired by Professor Francionni had reviewed the implications of paragraph 65 during the twenty-third session of the World Heritage Bureau, and indicated that the evaluations of nominations, prepared by the advisory bodies, be ...
Session: 23rd session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 209)
Year: 1999
Session: 23rd session of the World Heritage Committee (CONF 209)
Year: 1999