The World Heritage Committee,
- Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1,
- Refers the nomination of Deer Stone Monuments and Related Sites, the Heart of Bronze Age Culture, Mongolia, back to the State Party to allow it to:
- Revise the overall narrative of the nominated property to reflect the whole of the archaeological complexes, portraying a greater balance regarding deer stones and the other substantial attributes notably the khirgisuurs,
- Consolidate the information provided for the comparative analysis with clear criteria used consistently, and with summary findings in a table,
- Review the justification for inscription of the nominated property based on a revised overall narrative which will provide an adequate understanding of the various attributes, their relationships and meaning; in the case of criterion (i), this should also include the cultural role of the design qualities of the deer stones,
- Extend the buffer zone to the south of the Uushigiin Övör component part to include the area where there is currently a tent hotel, with the objective of relocating the hotel outside of the extended buffer zone,
- Take all necessary steps to provide comprehensive legal protection to the component parts of the nominated property as soon as possible,
- Fully implement the management plan,
- Provide personnel and resources for the administration in charge of the protection of the nominated property;
- Recommends that the State Party give consideration to the following:
- Completing the planned survey and documentation work as soon as possible, and extending documentation to include the important elements in the landscape setting,
- Adopting a landscape management approach for the setting of the nominated property,
- Preparing and implementing a risk management plan and a tourism plan,
- Implementing additional conservation measures as part of the national programme,
- Avoiding further re-erection of deer stones without a robust methodology consistent with best conservation practice, and consideration of remedial measures as needed,
- Giving emphasis in the monitoring arrangements to the actual state of conservation of the identified attributes,
- Defining the carrying capacity of the land for grazing, and reviving traditional methods of pasture rotation,
- Establishing a timetable for the removal of the remnant machinery of the disused coal mine in the southwestern part of the buffer zone of the Khoid Tamir component part,
- Improving the interpretive materials for the nominated property,
- Updating the figures of the surfaces of areas and buffer zones according to the revised boundaries for the nominated property;
- Also recommends that the name of the nominated property be amended according to the revised narrative and that the “Heart of Bronze Age Culture” be removed from the title.