Progress report on the Policy Guidelines Document

WHC/16/40.COM/12

Further to previous decisions that Policy Guidelines should be developed and that a scoping study in this regard should be prepared by ICCROM, the World Heritage Committee, at its 39th session (Bonn, 2015), requested that the scoping study on Policy Guidelines be submitted for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 40th session in 2016 (Decision 39 COM 12).

This document presents the scoping study and a proposal for the way forward regarding the elaboration of the policy document.