3 COM XI.35
Amendments to the criteria for the inclusion of cultural and natural properties in the World Heritage List and Guidelines for the evaluation of Nominations to the World Heritage List by ICOMOS and IUCN
In response to specific questions raised by Mr. Michel Parent's report, the Committee adopted the following principles:
(i) States Parties may propose in one single nomination several individual cultural properties, which may be in different geographical locations but which should:
-be linked because they belong to the same historico-cultural group, or-be the subject of a single safeguarding project, or-belong to the same type of property characteristic of the zone.
the geographical zone in which these properties are situated should be delimited and the cultural properties individually ...
3 COM XI.36
Amendments to the criteria for the inclusion of cultural and natural properties in the World Heritage List and Guidelines for the evaluation of Nominations to the World Heritage List by ICOMOS and IUCN
The Committee took note of the typology proposed in Mr. Michel Parent's report. It considered that it was on the basis of the inventories submitted by States Parties that such a typology could be finalized. The question will therefore continue to be studied until its next session.
3 COM XI.39
Amendments to the criteria for the inclusion of natural properties in the World Heritage List and guidelines for the evaluation of nominations by IUCN
The Committee considered the complex issues concerning sites occupied by migratory species on a seasonal basis and decided to add to paragraph 11 on integrity in the "Operational Guidelines" a new sub-paragraph (v) as follows:
"In cases of migratory species, integrity will require critical areas necessary for the survival of the species to be included in the nomination. States which are parties to the Convention are requested to seek the co-operation of other States which contain seasonable sites for populations of World Heritage species so as to ensure that these species are protected ...
The Committee took up one by one those nominations which had been recommended by the Bureau for inscription on the List, those which had been recommended by the Bureau not to be entered on the List and nominations which raised a problem of application of the criteria, in accordance with the Committee's decision mentioned in paragraph 15 above. In each case the Committee heard, as appropriate, the comments of the representatives of IUCN and/or ICOMOS who referred to the criteria met by the property in question.
The Committee decided to enter in the World Heritage List the following 45 properties:
No. Name of property / State Party___________________________________________
19 Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region / Ethiopia
20 Ancient City of Damascus Syrian / Arab Republic
The Committee noted the reservation expressed by ICOMOS concerning the threat to the site from rapid urban development.
31 Auschwitz concentration camp / Poland
The Committee decided to enter Auschwitz concentration camp on the List as a unique site and to restrict the inscription of other sites of a similar nature.
33 ...
Sites: Abu Mena Amphitheatre of El Jem Ancient City of Damascus Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis Antigua Guatemala Archaeological Site of Carthage Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945) Białowieża Forest Boyana Church Bryggen Chartres Cathedral Dinosaur Provincial Park Everglades National Park Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions Grand Canyon National Park Historic Cairo Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian Independence Hall Kathmandu Valley Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek Madara Rider Medina of Tunis Meidan Emam, Esfahan Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor Ngorongoro Conservation Area Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae Old City of Dubrovnik Palace and Park of Versailles Persepolis Plitvice Lakes National Park Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley Rock Drawings in Valcamonica Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo Sagarmatha National Park Stari Ras and Sopoćani Tchogha Zanbil Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak Tikal National Park Urnes Stave Church Vézelay, Church and Hill Virunga National Park
The Committee decided furthermore to defer the following sites:
No. Name of property / State Party
8 Ichkeul National park / Tunisia
The Committee deferred this nomination until the Tunisian Government has contacted the other States concerned to ensure adequate protection of summering and wintering areas of major migratory species found in Ichkeul.
79 Paphos, Birthplace of Aphrodite / Cyprus
The Committee deferred this nomination until more precise information was available on the possible adverse impact on the sites of the pressing needs of tourism development.
92 Sta. Giulia/St. ...
The Committee furthermore decided not to inscribe the following two sites on the World Heritage List:
No. 5: Zembra and Zembretta Islands National Park (Tunisia) andNo. 73: the Madeleine Island (Senegal).
In order to facilitate the examination by the Committee of nominations, it was decided that in future documents submitting nominations to the Committee would include indication of the criteria under which each nomination was to be considered.
The Committee discussed one by one those nominations which had been recommended by the Bureau for inscription on the List, those which had been recommended by the Bureau not to be entered on the List and nominations which raised a problem of application of the criteria, and were hence recommended by the Bureau to be deferred. In each case the Committee heard, as appropriate, the comments of the representatives of IUCN and/or ICOMOS who presented an evaluation of each property in question in relation to the criteria. The representatives of IUCN and ICOMOS were invited when appro- priate ...
The Committee also decided to extend the protected site of Ohrid Lake to include the cultural and historical area. This site will carry the name "Ohrid region with its cultural and historical aspects and its natural environment".
4 COM V.15
Consideration of Item 4 of the agenda:Nominations the World Heritage List (not inscribed sites)
The Committee furthermore decided not to inscribe the following ten sites on the World Heritage List :
No. / Name of property / State Party
104 / Church of Orosi / Costa Rica
105 / National Monument at San Jose / Costa Rica
108 / National Theatre / Costa Rica
110 / Church of Nicoya / Costa Rica
123 / Kainji Lake National Park / Nigeria
56 / Valley of Heidal / Norway
57 / Kjerringøy Trading Centre / Norway
60 / Eidsvoll Building / Norway
141 / Archaeological ruins at Harappa / ...
4 COM V.12
Consideration of Item 4 of the agenda: Nominations the World Heritage List (inscribed sites)
The Committee decided to enter in the world Heritage List the following 28 sites:
No.
Name of property
State Party
102
Qalaa of Beni Hammad
Algeria
124
Historic Town of Ouro Prêto
Brazil
133
Burgess Shale Site
Canada
79
Paphos
Cyprus
10
Lower Valley of the Awash
Ethiopia
12
Tiya
Ethiopia
5
Aksum
Ethiopia
17
Lower Valley of the Omo
Ethiopia
35
Ashante Traditional Buildings
Ghana
129
Maya Site of Copan
Honduras
91
Historic Centre of Rome
Italy
The representative ...
Sites: Aksum Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad Ancient City of Bosra Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro Buddhist Ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and Neighbouring City Remains at Sahr-i-Bahlol Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci City of Valletta Durmitor National Park Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura Historic Centre of Warsaw Historic Town of Ouro Preto Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum Ichkeul National Park Kahuzi-Biega National Park Lower Valley of the Awash Lower Valley of the Omo Maya Site of Copan Megalithic Temples of Malta Paphos Redwood National and State Parks Røros Mining Town and the Circumference Site of Palmyra Taxila
4 COM V.14
Consideration of Item 4 of the agenda:Nominations the World Heritage List (differed sites)
The Committee decided furthermore to defer the following sites :
No. / Name of property / State Party
101 / Dey's Palace at Algiers/ Algeria
103 / Citadel Quarter of Setif / Algeria
106 / National archaeological park of Guayabo de Turrialba / Costa Rica
107 / Santa Rosa historic mansion / Costa Rica
109 / Ruins of Ujarras / Costa Rica
11 / Adulis / Ethiopia
111 / Bale Mountain National Park / Ethiopia
112 / Abijatta Shalla Lakes National Park / Ethiopia
13 / Melka Kontoure / Ethiopia
14 / Matara / Ethiopia
16 /Yeha / Ethiopia
92 / Convent of Santa Giulia-San Salvatore ...
4 COM VII.21
Consideration of item 8 of the agenda: Measures to be taken to improve the balance between the cultural and the natural heritage in the implementation of the Convention
21. The Committee heard the report of the working group set up to examine measures to improve the balance between the cultural and the natural heritage in the implementation of the Convention and agreed with the recommendations set out below:
1) Preparatory assistance to States Parties should be granted on a priority basis for:
(i) the establishment of tentative lists of cultural and natural properties situated in their territories and suitable for inclusion in the World Heritage List;
(ii) the preparation of nominations of types of properties underrepresented in the World Heritage ...
The Committee decided to include in the World Heritage List all the properties recommended by the Bureau. Two nominations, the Fort of Lahore and Shalimar Gardens in Lahore were combined and thus the following twenty-six properties were inscribed :
Name of Property
Nomination submitted by
Id No.
Los Glaciares
Argentina
145
Kakadu National Park
Australia
147
NB The Committee noted that the Australian Government intended to proclaim additional areas in the Alligator River Region as part of Kakadu National Park and recommended that such areas ...
Sites: Amiens Cathedral Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay Darien National Park Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore Great Barrier Reef Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta Kakadu National Park Los Glaciares National Park Mammoth Cave National Park Medina of Fez Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve Niokolo-Koba National Park Olympic National Park Palace and Park of Fontainebleau Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the "Triumphal Arch" of Orange Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara SGang Gwaay Serengeti National Park Speyer Cathedral The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes Willandra Lakes Region Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square
The Committee took note of the decision of the Bureau to defer twenty nominations because additional information was required. The meeting was informed that the Australian Government had withdrawn the nomination of the Sydney Opera House in its setting and that it hoped to submit a revised nomination in due course. In addition, the Rapporteur and the Secretariat informed the Committee that the Algerian Authorities intended to revise the nomination relating to the Dey's Palace at Algiers in order to extend it to cover the whole of the Casbah; this revised nomination would be submitted when ...
Sites: Sydney Opera House
Before the Committee examined the nominations to the World Heritage List, a series of slides on some of the cultural and natural properties nominated was shown by ICOMOS and IUCN. The Committee then took up one by one the nominations of those properties which the Bureau had recommended for inclusion in the World Heritage List. In each case the Committee was informed of the point of view of the Bureau as presented by the Rapporteur and took note of the comments of the representatives of ICOMOS and/or IUCN, who had made an evaluation of each property in relation to the criteria for the ...
The Committee decided to enter in the World Heritage List the twenty-four cultural and natural properties which had been recommended by the Bureau:
Name of PropertyContracting State having submitted the nomination of the property in accordance with the ConventionIdentification No.
Tassili n'Ajjer
Algeria
179
The M'Zab Valley
Algeria
188
Djemila
Algeria
191
Tipasa
Algeria
193
Timgad
Algeria
194
Western Tasmania Wilderness National Parks
The Committee is seriously concerned at the ...
Sites: Aldabra Atoll Ancient City of Polonnaruwa Ancient City of Sigiriya Archaeological Site of Cyrene Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna Archaeological Site of Sabratha Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site Djémila From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Production of Open-pan Salt Historic Centre of Florence Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda Lord Howe Island Group M'Zab Valley National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers Old Havana and its Fortification System Old Walled City of Shibam Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve Sacred City of Anuradhapura Selous Game Reserve Taï National Park Tasmanian Wilderness Tassili n'Ajjer Timgad Tipasa
The Committee furthermore decided that the site of Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, which was already included in the World Heritage List on the proposal of Guinea, would be extended through the addition of that part of the Reserve situated in Ivory Coast, which was nominated by that State.
The Committee also decided that the Old Stone Town of Zanzibar which had been nominated by Tanzania should not be considered further for inclusion in the World Heritage List.
Sites: Stone Town of Zanzibar