The World Heritage Committee,
- Having examined Document WHC/24/46.COM/8,
PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT - Decides to amend Paragraph 121 of the Operational Guidelines with the addition of the highlighted bold text as follows:
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The Upstream Process advice provided regarding a site will not prejudge the results of any future Preliminary Assessment.
The requirement to undergo a Preliminary Assessment shall be disregarded for nominations of sites which have been subject to an Upstream Process on a specific site under the condition that the related nomination dossier is submitted within five years following reception of the report of Upstream Process advice. In this case, once a nomination is submitted, the related report of Upstream Process advice shall be annexed to it. The report of Upstream Process advice concerning a specific site is relevant for up to five years. After this period, either a new Upstream Process or a Preliminary Assessment is required if a nomination is not submitted by 1 February on the fifth year following the transmission of the Report to the concerned State(s) Party(ies).
Requests for the Upstream Process […] - Takes note of the Preliminary Assessment requests received by 15 September 2023 presented in Annex 1 of Document WHC/24/46.COM/8;
MAPS SHOWING THE LOCATION OF THE NOMINATED PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE PARTY - Also decides to remove point (ii) of Section 1.e “Maps and plans, showing the boundaries of the nominated property and buffer zone” of Annex 5 of the Operational Guidelines, and acknowledges that for some specific cases (i.e. serial nominations) the Secretariat may provide specific guidance in line with paragraphs 126 and 127 of the Operational Guidelines. The removed text is shown in bold highlighted strikethrough as follows:
[…] the Secretariat for further information concerning this option
(ii) A Location Map showing the location of the nominated property within the State Party,
(iii) Plans and specially […]
NOMINATIONS NOT EVALUATED FOR THE 46th SESSION - Further decides that nominations, which were submitted for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its extended 44th (Fuzhou/online, 2021) and the extended 45th (Riyadh, 2023) sessions but which could not be evaluated due to the health and/or security situation, be examined at the 47th session of the Committee without impinging on national and overall quota of nominations (Paragraph 61 of the Operational Guidelines) to be examined at the 47th session, in accordance with the timeframe foreseen in Paragraph 168 of the Operational Guidelines.