The World Heritage Committee,
- Having examined Document WHC/23/45.COM/7B,
- Recalling Decision 44 COM 7B.168 adopted at its extended 44th session (Fuzhou/online, 2021),
- Notes that the State Party submitted a nomination dossier that would transform the sites into component parts of a serial property under the name of “Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá” to the World Heritage Centre;
- Requests the State Party to provide reports on:
- The status of all planned, ongoing or recently finalized construction projects,
- The way these projects are affected by the new legal and planning framework,
- Their (potential) impact on the newly defined values of the property components within the framework of the “Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá”;
- Also requests a detailed account of the state of conservation of the main elements of the two property components, with a clear definition of baseline data to which any changes can be compared and evaluated;
- Urges the State Party to finalize the processes necessary to make new laws, plans (Decision 44 COM 7B.168, paragraphs 7 a-d) and programmes operative and further requests a report on the advances;
- Finally requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 December 2024, an updated report on the state of conservation of the property and the implementation of the above, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 47th session.