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CC-78/cONF.009/6Paris~ 5 June 1978Original : English

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC ANDCULTURAL ORGANIZATION

CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF Tr~

WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE

Bureau of the World Heritage CommitteeFirst session

Paris, 8 and 9 June 1978

Item 5 of the Provisional Agenda : Examination of the form andperiodicity of publication of the World Heritage List, the Listof World .Heritage in Danger and the list of properties for whichtechnical co-operation is granted .

In the light of the suggestions set out in the working document,the Secretariat has prepared the attached preliminary proposal on thecontents and lay-out of the publication of the above-mentioned thre'elists.

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL,SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURALORGANIZATION

W 0 R L D HER I TAG E

CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTIONOF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

World Heritage List

List of World Heritage in Danger

List of property for whichtechnical co-operation hasbeen granted under theConvention for the Protectionof the World Cultural andNatural Heritage

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I N T R 0 DU C T ION

Lrecalling the purpose of the ConventionJ

W 0 R L D HER I TAG E LIS T

Established by the Intergovernmental Committee forthe Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritageof Outstanding Universal Value on the basis ofnominations submitted by the States Parties to theConvention concerning the Protection of the World

Cultural and Natural Heritage

INTRODUCTION

Under the terms of the World Heritage Convention, "every StateParty thereto should, in so far as possible, submit to the WorldHeritage Committee an inventory of properties forming part of thecultural and natural heritage, situated in its territory andsuitable for inclusion in the World Hetitage List.

On the basis of the inventories submitted by States~ the WorldHeritage Committee is to establish, keep up to date and publish,under the title of IfWorld Heritage List", a list of propertiesforming part of the cultural heritage and natural heritage. asdefined in the Convention (1) which it considers as having outstandinguniversal value in terms of such criteria as it shall have established.An updated list is- to be distt'ibuted at least every two years.

(1) "Cultural heritage" is defined by the Convention as :

monuments: architectural works, works of monumental sculpture and painting, elements orstructures of an archaeological nature, inscriptions, cave dwellings and combinations offeatures, which are of outstanding universal value from the. point of view of history, art orscience;

groups of buildings: groups of separate or connected buildL'1gs which, because of their archi­tecture, their homogeneity or their place in the landscape, are of outstanding universal valuefrom the point of view of history, art or science;

sites: works of mar. or the combined works of nature and of man, and areas including archaeo­logical sites which are of outstanding universal value from the historical, aesthetic, ethno­logical or anthropological points of view.

"Natural Heritage" is defined by the Convention as :

natural features consisting of physical and biological formations or groups of such formations,which are of outs:anding universal value from the aesthetic or scientific point of view;

geological and physiographical formations and precisely delineated areas which constitute thehabitat of threatened species of animals and plants of outstanding universal value from thepoint of view of science or conservation;

natural sites or precisely delineated natural areas of outstanding universal value from. thepoint of view of science, conservation or natural beauty.

At its first session (27 June - 1 July 1977), the World HeritageCommittee established the following criteria against which culturaland natural properties would be evaluated :

a) For eu!turu! pruperty. outstanding universal valllL' \\ill bL' rl'L'o~ni/l'd \\ Ill'lI a mOllllllh'lH.group of building.s or sitc - as definl'd in Artick I of thL' C<)Il\l'nlilll1 - ~lIbIl1ittl:'d fotinclusion in thl:' World Herital!c List is found tu mel't onl' or IlH>rl' of thl' fo!lowinl!critcriJ. Therefore, cach property should:0) repre~l:nt a l/I1hluC artislic or aesthetic achil.'\l·llh'nL a /}/(HICIPic'cc 01 till.' crcati\·I..'

gl:'niu~: or(ij) hJ\"l~ l.'xerted considerahk illj!lICIlU', over a SP~11l of time or within a cultural arl'a

of the world, Oil sllbsCllW'llt dCl'c/opmcllts in architeclufl'. ll\olHlIllL'ntal sculpture.garcll.'n and landscape design, relakd arts, or human sl'ttiL'l1ll'nl: or

(iii) bl' ullique. extremely rare, or ofgfC(J1 alllhit/fty: 01

(iv) b~ Jl110ng th~ Inost charad\.'ristic exampk~ of a 1.\111.' or strudUll'. thL' t) 11L'rl'prL'SL'nting an important culturaL social. artistic. scientific, kcll\lological OJinl1u::.trial development: or

(v) bi..' a characteristic example of a significant. [mc/iliulial styI\.' or ~Irl"hikl'tllre,

l11dhod of construction, or /llimall sell!ell/cllt, tl1al is fragile hy n:lllJrI.' or hasbl.'L·Oll1l.' \ulnl.'rabk ulllkr till.' impact or inl.'\\.'P'Iibk sOCiO-cllltura!ol I.'L'onollliL'chi.lng\..': or

(vi) be mo~t importantly wsol'ia[e£! \"ith idea~ or bl'lil,rS, with v\'l'nh or \vithllL'rsoll"l.of OLt h tand ing historical im pOrtancl' or si:!I1 iril'~lnL'L'.

In e\\..'ry I...",I"~. L'l)l1sil1eration must bl' givcn to th\.' ~Llll' 01" pll'st'rvaliol1 or thl' propl.'rt~

(whil.'11 "huLtld bl.' c\'ll1uatL'd relatively. in compari'lon to thl' stalL' or prl'sL'natiol1 or t)tli.'!

prop\.Tt: J~ltillg from thc same pniod and of till' sallll' type and cakgory).

In al1Jiti(l\1. thi..' property should mel'! the tl''lt o!" ulil/IClllicil.l' ill lksiL!ll. 1l1;ltl'riJIs,workl11~ilh!lip and setting: <Juthl.'nticity dOL'S not limit consi<.h'ratioll to original form andstructurL' but includes all subsequcnt J1lodiril'ali()l1~ i.ltld additiolls, O\'l'J the course ortill1l'. \\.l1il:ll in themselves possess artistic or hi...,toricll \ahll's.

b) For natura! p]"u!)(!rty, outstanding universal \ a 11.1 l' \villlx rl'cognilL'<.\ wlll'n a natural hl'ntag..'propl'fty - as (kfined in Article 2 of the C<')J1vl'l1tion - submitted for inclll~ion ill thl.' \\'urldH.eritag(' Li~t. is found to I11l'l'l OIl\.' or IlHHl' of thl' rollowing erikria. Thl'rl.'!"orL', propnt i,"Inominated should:(i) be outstanding examples rq1rl'scnting Ihe majur stages oflhe curlll '-' {,l'u!l/tio//ar.\'

history. This category would incIu(k sites which represcnt the major "l'ras" ofgeological history such as "till.' age of rq1tiks" where tIll' dL'\"l'lopIllCllt of thl.' pIJlh:t'snatural di\'~rsity can wl'11 be (kmonstrated and such as the "in' agL'" \\ hl're early IlUll

anJ his l:'!1\'ironmcnt underwent major changes: or(ii) bl.' out:::.tanding examples reprl.'senting significant ongoing gculugica! /)'-')('(',.\'('s, bitJ!l)­

ghat eru!utio/l and mail's illleractio/l it'ilh his /lalural CIll'irUII/W'JlI. As distinct frumthe pi..'fiods of the earth's ckvl'1opmL'nt. thi::. fOl'lISl'S upon ongoing !HOI..'L'SSl'S ill tlkde\dupment of communities of plant'::> and animals, landforms and marinL' JnL! frL'~h

\vater bodil.'s. This category would include for l.'xampk (a) a~ !!-l'ol0l!ical processl'~.

gbciation and volcanism, (b) as biological evolution, exampks of bio!l1l.'s such astropiLal rainforests, deserts and tundra (c) as inkraction bl'lWl'l'll man and his natural-.:n\iron men t, terracLd agricllitu ral landscapes: or

(iii) contain uniquc, rare OJ' sU/hTlaliJ'e n£lrllral/J/u-'/WII/CI/(/, ./(JI'nwti()l/.\ (lr jealUrc) ur "fn/l,

oj e.H(pliullalnalural heaul)', such as sUih.:rlati\\.' l.'xampks or till' most importallt~cos) ~ten1:) to man, natural fcatun:s, (for illstal1L'l', rivl'rs, mOlll1tail1~, waterfalls).sp~ctack'~ presented by great concl'ntrations of animals, SWl'l'pint! vista'i covL'rL'd h~

natural \l.'gctation and exceptional comhinations of natural and cultllrall'lI...'Il1L'l1h: ur(iv) be hLlbitu{s where populatio/ls of fare U]" {'I/c!allgern/ species ()f/J!(/lllS alld animal"

still SllI'l'il'c. This catcgory would illcllllk' thosL' l'c()~yslems in which L'l)llccnlratiolbof planb and animals of ul1ivl'rsal inlL'fl'st and signifiL'(Ince all' found.

It shoulu be reali/eu that indi\idual sites may not P(JSSl'"'' thL' 1ll0~t '-11i.:,.'Lll'uLn or out­standing single example of thl' abov\..', but whl'l1 thL' sill'" arc vil'wed i!l .1 hJ()~lLkr IK'I'SPl'l'­tive with a complex of many surrounding fl'atlll\'\ of sigl1iric~lIlce. tli:.. ;.'ntirl' arL'a mayqualify to demonstrate an arr~l~ of features of global "ignificaJiCl'.

In addition to the above critl:ria. the sitL's should also mel't thl' conditiun,> of integrity:

- 1 he areas lkscribed in (i) ab()\'c should contain all or 1ll0~t of till: k;.:y intl.'ITelakd andinterdcpendent ckml'nb in their natural rdati,)J1ships: for examp":. <In"ice age" an:awould be expected to illdw..k the sno\\.! fidd. the gL.ll:i\.'r itself anJ '<lllIph:s of cuttingpatterns, deposition and colonization (striatiuns. moraines. piolll' .... r ~tagl's of plantsuccession, etc.).

The areas described in (ii) above should have sufficiellt sizl' and 1.:unt~lin th\..' nccessaryelements to dl'Il1onstrate thl' kL'y aspl~cts or thl' process and to h\.' ....\.'If-pl'rpL'tliating. Forexampk, an area of ""tropi(.·al rain forest" may be C\pl'l:tnl tu in" Iud,,' ~()mL' variation inelevation above sea level. changes in topography and soil types, ri\',:r banks or oxbowlakes, to demonstrate the di\'crsity and complexity of the SyStL'Jl1.

The areas described in (iii I abo\'e should contain thosL' ecosystl'Jl1 '-'I)l11PI)l1\.'l1tS rel}uin:dfor the continuity of thl' ~pl'cit'S or or the objects to be conSent'll. Thi ... will vary accord­ing to individual cases: for cxample, thl.' protL'cled arca for a watl.'rtall \\uuld include all.or as much as possible, of the supporting upstream watershed: or a \.·oral rl'cf area wouldbe provided with control Oh'f siltation or pollution through the ... t[\..'al11 flow or oceancurrents which providl' it::. nutrients.

The areas ckscribed in (i\ 1 abo\L' should bl.' of sufficient Sill' and .. IIIHain tlh: 11,,'ccssaryhabitat requirements for til .... :-iun'ival or the species.

The list that follows includes those cultural and natural propertiesalready examined by the World Heritage Committee and considered by theCommittee as having outstanding universal value in terms of thecriteria set out above. Additions will be made as the Committee atits later sessions reviews favourably further no:ninations submittedby States Parties. The States in whose territory the followingcultural and natural properties are situated are listed in alphabeticalorder.

(Name of Property)

(Location)

(Description)

WORLD HERITAGE LIST

(State)

(Justification for inclusion in World Heritage List)

(photograph(s) on left-hand page)

LIST OF WORLD HERITAGE IN DANGER

The "List of World Heri tage in Danger ll \o/hichappears on the following pages refers exclusivelyto those cultural and natural properties includedin the World Heritage" List, which are threatenedby serious and specific dangers and for which majoroperations are necessary to ensure their conservation;technical co-operation relating to the protBction o£all the following cultural and natural properties hasbeen requested under the Convention concerning theprotection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.

List of W~rld Heritage in Danger

(Name of property)

(Reference in World Heritage List)

(Description of dangers threatening propertyand of its state of preservation)

(Statement on operations that are necessaryto ensure its conservation and estimatedcost of operations)

(three properties per page)

(State)

LIST OF PROPERTY FOR WHICH TECHNICALCO-OPERATION HAS BEEN GRANTED UNDERTHE CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTIONOF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE

(Name of property)

(Reference in World Heritage List andin List of World Heritage in Danger)

(Description of technical co-operationgranted, the results thereof and ofthe work still necessary)

(3 or 4 properties per page)

(State)