The World Heritage Committee,
- Having examined Document WHC/24/46.COM/7B.Add,
- Recalling Decisions 44 COM 7B.109 and 45 COM 7B.26 adopted at its 44th (Fuzhou/online, 2021) and 45th (Riyadh, 2023) extended sessions, respectively,
- Regrets the lack of information provided by the State Party and urges the State Party to provide a detailed update on the implementation of the recommendations of the 2019 Reactive Monitoring mission to the property and on the implementation of the above-mentioned previous Decisions of the Committee;
- Welcomes the initiative to establish the Volcanoes of Kamchatka National Park, but notes that it is unclear whether all the areas of the South Kamchatka and Kluchevskoy Nature Parks, as included in the property, are within the proposed National Park, and urges the State Party to ensure that the new National Park comprises the entire territory of the Nature Parks, as included in the property at the time of inscription, including the Vilyuchinskaya and Zhirovaya Bays;
- Recalls that World Heritage status requires that the legal protection of the property is adequate to protect its Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) and that modifications to the legal protection may constitute a potential danger to the property as provided for in Paragraph 180(b)(i) of the Operational Guidelines;
- Welcomes the information that the Three Volcanoes Park tourism resort development project has been revised to be implemented outside the property, and requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre the Environmental Impact Assessment for the revised project to assess the potential impacts on the OUV of the property, in accordance with the Guidance and Toolkit for Impact Assessments in a World Heritage Context, together with detailed information on the current status and design of the project, including maps showing where infrastructure is being planned in relation to the boundaries of the property, before proceeding further with the project implementation;
- Reiterates its request to the State Party to prepare a Master Plan for Tourism Development in the property, as recommended by the 2019 Reactive Monitoring mission;
- Also requests the State Party to provide detailed information on the functional zoning currently in place in all components of the property, as well as details of the regulations and special protection regimes in place for the different zones, recalling the conclusion of the 2019 Reactive Monitoring mission that the zoning of the different components of the property did not meet the requirements of protecting the OUV;
- Further requests the State Party to report on the progress made in implementing the Action Plan to address the recommendations of the 2019 Reactive Monitoring mission;
- Requests furthermore that the joint World Heritage Centre/IUCN Reactive Monitoring mission to the property assess the adequacy of the legal protection of the property and the consistency of proposed tourism-related developments with the conservation of the OUV of the property, in particular the Three Volcanoes Park, the implementation of the recommendations of the 2019 mission to the property, as well as the overall state of conservation of the property;
- Finally requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2025, 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, considering that the urgent conservation needs of this property require a broad mobilization to preserve its OUV, including the possible inscription on the List of World Heritage in Danger.