World Heritage
27 COM
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WHC-03/27.COM/14
Paris, 12 June 2003
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UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND
CULTURAL ORGANIZATION
CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD
CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE
WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE
Twenty-seventh session
Paris, UNESCO Headquarters, Room XII
30 June – 5 July 2003
Item 14 of the Provisional Agenda: Nominations to be examined at the forthcoming
sessions:
B. Evaluation of the Cairns Decision
SUMMARY
Draft Decision:
27 COM 14 The World Heritage Committe,
1.
Decides to retain the limit of one new and complete nomination per State Party with
properties already on the World Heritage List, as the best means of managing the workload of
the Committee, the Advisory Bodies, and the World Heritage Centre, and of improving the
geographic distribution of properties on the World Heritage List; States Parties that have no
properties inscribed on the World Heritage List will have the opportunity to nominate two or
three properties;
2.
Decides to continue to exempt from this limit transboundary and emergency
nominations, changes to the boundaries of properties already inscribed, as well as those
nominations which have been deferred and referred by previous sessions of the Committee;
3.
Invites States Parties nominating properties to keep in mind the desirability of
achieving a reasonable balance between the numbers of cultural heritage and natural
heritage properties included in the World Heritage List (Paragraph 15 of the Operational
Guidelines, July 2002);
4.
Decides to eliminate the annual limit on the number of new nominations it will review;
and
5.
Decides to maintain the deadline for the receipt of complete nominations as
1 February and encourages States Parties to submit draft nominations by 30 September to
ensure that nominations have the maximum opportunity of being complete on 1 February
(Decision 6 EXT.COM 5.1 annex 3.9).
Evaluation of the Cairns D