Decision 40 COM 8D

Clarifications of property boundaries and areas by States Parties

The World Heritage Committee,

1. Having examined Document WHC/16/40.COM/8D,
2. Recalling Decision 39 COM 8D, adopted at its 39th session (Bonn, 2015),
3. Acknowledges the excellent work accomplished by States Parties in the clarification of the boundaries of their World Heritage properties and commends them for their efforts to improve the credibility of the World Heritage List;
4. Recalls that the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies are not able to examine proposals for minor or significant modifications to boundaries of World Heritage properties whenever the delimitations of such properties as inscribed remain unclear;
5. Takes note of the clarifications of property boundaries and areas provided by the States Parties as presented in the Annex of Document WHC/16/40.COM/8D:
   
   

   ARAB STATES

   • Syrian Arab Republic: Site of Palmyra;

   EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA

   • Canada: Dinosaur Provincial Park;
   • Croatia: Plitvice Lakes National Park;
   • Czech Republic: Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc; Litomyšl Castle;
   • France: Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France; Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy;
   • Germany: Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau; Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg;
   • Holy See: Vatican City;
   • Italy: City of Verona;
   • Russian Federation: Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow;
   • Spain: Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain; Las Médulas; La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia; San Millán Yuso and Suso Monasteries;
   • Sweden: Skogskyrkogården;
   • United States of America: La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico; Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site; Chaco Culture;

   LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

   • Belize: Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System;
   • Cuba: Old Havana and its Fortification System;
   • Mexico: Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan;
   • Peru: Huascarán National Park;
   • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): Coro and its Port;
     
     
6. Requests the States Parties which have not yet answered the questions raised in the framework of the Retrospective Inventory to provide all clarifications and documentation as soon as possible, and by 1 December 2016 at the latest, for their subsequent examination, if the technical requirements are met, by the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee in 2017.