The World Heritage Committee,
- Having examined Documents WHC/18/42.COM/8B and WHC/18/42.COM/INF.8B1,
- Refers the nomination of the Colonies of Benevolence, Belgium and Netherlands, back to the States Parties, in order to:
- Adapt the nomination by focusing on the well-preserved cultural landscapes of the free and unfree Colonies, both understood to reflect the ideals relating to a single utopian model of poverty reduction that guided their foundation and evolution,
- Ensure that the nominated free and unfree Colonies reflect the scope and careful planning of the agricultural settlements and their ordered buildings and how these were integrated as a whole and offered an approach to the idea of improvement of individual over 150 years,
- Adapt the Management Plan so that it aims to evoke, through adequate protection and through careful management and presentation, both the positive and the negative approaches of these colonies, their overall organisation, and the lives of their inhabitants;
- Recommends the States Parties to consider inviting an ICOMOS advisory mission to the component sites, if needed;
- Also recommends that the States Parties give consideration to the following:
- Provide a better rationale for the delineation of buffer zones,
- Provide detailed information on how the whole landscape of the colonies is protected,
- Complete the monitoring system to include indicators related to the attributes of the proposed Outstanding Universal Value.