Adoption of retrospective Statements of Outstanding Universal Value

WHC/21/44.COM/8E

This document presents for adoption 18 retrospective Statements of Outstanding Universal Value submitted by 8 States Parties for properties which had no Statement of Outstanding Universal Value adopted at the time of their inscription on the World Heritage List. It also presents 2 Statements for which the management and protection part has been updated in compliance with the Operational Guidelines.

Annex 1 contains the full texts of the retrospective Statements of Outstanding Universal Value in the original language, as submitted to the Secretariat. The full texts of the two updated Statements of Outstanding Universal Value are included in Annex 2.