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World Heritage 33 COM Distribution Limited WHC-09/33.COM/20 Seville, 20 July 2009 Original: English/French UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE Thirty-third session Seville, Spain 22-30 June 2009 REPORT OF DECISIONS TABLE OF CONTENT AGENDA ITEM PAGE 2. 2. Requests for Observer status 4 3. 3. Adoption of the Agenda and the Timetable 4 3A. Adoption of the Agenda 3B. Adoption of the Timetable 4. 4. Report of the Rapporteur of the 32nd session of the World N/A Heritage Committee (Quebec, City 2008) 5. 5. Reports of the World Heritage Centre 5A. Report of the World Heritage Centre 5 5B. Report on World Heritage and the Small Island Developing 7 States (SIDS) programme 5C. World Heritage Convention and main multilateral 8 environmental agreements 6. 6. Progress reports on Funding initiatives 8 7. 7. Examination of the State of conservation of World Heritage properties 7.1. Progress report on the preparation of a UNESCO 10 Recommendation on the Conservation of the Historic Urban Landscape 7.2. Report on Reinforced Monitoring 11 7A. State of conservation of the properties inscribed on the List 12 of World Heritage in Danger 7B. State of conservation of properties inscribed on the World 49 Heritage List 7C. Reflection on the trends of the state of conservation 177 8. 8. Establishment of the World Heritage List and of the List of World Heritage in Danger 8A. Tentative Lists submitted by States Parties as of 15 April 179 2009, in conformity with the Operational Guidelines Report of decisions of the 33rd session WHC-09/33.COM/20, p. 1 of the World Heritage Committee (Seville, 2009) 8B. Nominations to the World Heritage List 180 8C. Update of the World Heritage List and the List of World 225 Heritage in Danger 8D. Clarifications of property boundaries and sizes by States 227 Parties in response to the Retrospective Inventory 8E. Adoption of retrospective Statements of significance and of 228 Outstanding Universal Value 9. 9. Discussion on the outstanding universal value 228 10. 10. Global Strategy for a representative, balanced and credible World Heritage List 10A. Serial transnational nominations 229 10B. Global training strategy 229 10C. Thematic Studies 230 11. 11. Periodic Reports 11A. Progress report on the Second cycle of Periodic Reporting 231 in the Arab States 11B. Follow up of the Periodic Report for Asia and the Pacific 232 11C. Launching of the second cycle of Periodic Reporting in 233 Africa 12 12. Protection of the Palestinian cultural and natural heritage 234 13. 13. Revision of the Operational Guidelines 235 14. 14A. Reflection on the future of the World Heritage Convention 235 14B. Report by the Chairperson of the Working Group on the 243 election of the members of the World Heritage Committee 14C. Amendments to the Rules of Procedures of the World 243 Heritage Committee 15. 15. International Assistance N/A 16. 16. Report on the execution of the 2008-2009 Budget and 243 adoption of the 2010-2011 Budget 17. 17. Other business 246 Report of decisions of the 33rd session WHC-09/33.COM/20, p. 2 of the World Heritage Committee (Seville, 2009) 18. 18. Election of the Chairperson, Vice-Chairpersons and 247 Rapporteur of the 34th session of the World Heritage Committee (July 2010) 19. 19. Provisional Agenda of the 34th session of the World Heritage 248 Committee (July 2010) Report of decisions of the 33rd session WHC-09/33.COM/20, p. 3 of the World Heritage Committee (Seville, 2009) 2. REQUESTS FOR OBSERVER STATUS Decision: 33 COM 2 The World Heritage Committee, 1. Taking into consideration Rule 8 (Observers) of the Rules of Procedure of the Committee, 2. Authorizes the participation in the 33rd session as observers of those representatives of the international governmental organizations (IGOs), international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), permanent observer missions to UNESCO and non profit-making institutions having activities in the fields covered by the Convention, who have requested observer participation at the session and as listed in Section A of the document WHC- 09/33.COM/2; 3. Further confirms the participation in the 33rd session as observers of all those invited by the Director-General of UNESCO in accordance with Rule 8.4 of the Rules of Procedure of the Committee and as listed in Section B of the document WHC-09/33.COM/2. 3. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA AND THE TIMETABLE 3A. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA Decision: 33 COM 3A The World Heritage Committee, 1. Having examined Document WHC-09/33.COM/3A.Rev.2, 2. Adopts the Agenda included in the above-mentioned Document as amended. 3B. ADOPTION OF THE TIMETABLE Decision: 33 COM 3B The World Heritage Committee, 1. Having examined Document WHC 09/33.COM/3B.Rev.2, 2. Adopts the timetable included in the above-mentioned Document as amended. Report of decisions of the 33rd session WHC-09/33.COM/20, p. 4 of the World Heritage Committee (Seville, 2009) 5. REPORTS OF THE WORLD HERITAGE CENTRE 5A. REPORT OF THE WORLD HERITAGE CENTRE Decision: 33 COM 5A The World Heritage Committee, 1. Having examined Documents WHC-09/33.COM/5A, WHC- 09/33.COM/INF.5A.1, WHC-09/33.COM/INF.5A.2, and WHC-09/33.COM/INF.5A.3, 2. Recalling Decision 32 COM 5 adopted at its 32nd session (Quebec City, 2008), 3. Takes note with appreciation of the activities undertaken by the World Heritage Centre over the past year in pursuit of the Committee’s five Strategic Objectives; 4. Takes also note of the findings of the study undertaken by UNESCO’s Internal Oversight Service on the mapping of the workload of the World Heritage Centre presented in Document WHC-09/33.COM/INF.5A.3; 5. Notes with satisfaction that the World Heritage Centre is working with the secretariats of intergovernmental committees of related conventions such as the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the Convention for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage-2001 and recommends that such cooperation be encouraged as this would further strengthen the work of the Centre; 6. Requests the World Heritage Centre to prepare a document on the World Heritage Convention and its cooperation and exchange with other conventions and programmes in the field of cultural heritage for discussion at the 34th session of the World Heritage Committee (2010); 7. Also requests the World Heritage Centre, in future reports on activities undertaken, to further strengthen the information and analysis available to States Parties by: a) Retaining the current format to report activities and including an update on progress with implementing the Committee’s decisions, b) Describing the criteria by which the World Heritage Centre makes decisions as to which activities under the Convention it undertakes, c) And including, on a discretionary basis, analysis of strategic issues and new directions; 8. Further requests the World Heritage Centre to produce, on an experimental basis, an indexed audio verbatim recording of the proceedings of the 33rd Session in addition to the standard summary records (as produced since the 26th session of the World Heritage Committee); 9. Notes the outline provided by the World Heritage Centre of its roles and the roles of the Advisory Bodies and agrees that this topic be further discussed at the 34th session of the Committee in 2010 under a separate agenda item; 10. Requests furthermore the World Heritage Centre to outline the forward direction of the World Heritage thematic programmes and initiatives, to enable an Report of decisions of the 33rd session WHC-09/33.COM/20, p. 5 of the World Heritage Committee (Seville, 2009) understanding of how these themes connect with and integrate into general programmes, and how they might be resourced; 11. Notes that the Centre already proactively engages women in its Heritage Programmes in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean as part of its gender balance policy and the provision of equal opportunity to all, and recommends that gender balance and community involvement be prioritized in the Centre’s programmes; 12. Adopts the World Heritage Thematic Programme on Prehistory presented in Annex 1 of document WHC-09/33.COM/5A; 13. Requests the World Heritage Centre to reconsider the term “prehistory”, to better recognize the continuing cultures of indigenous communities, to ensure global representation in the identification and conservation of related properties, and to present a report on progress in developing an Action Plan on Prehistory and World Heritage at its 34th session in 2010; 14. Notes with concern the ongoing destruction of some of these fragile sites, including the recent destruction of the Rock Art sites of Tardrat Acacus in Libya, and requests the State Party to take immediate action and other measures as necessary to address the problem in consultation with the World Heritage Centre and to invite a joint World Heritage Centre / ICOMOS mission; 15. Expresses its gratitude to the Governments of Bahrain, South Africa and Spain for the financial and technical support for the various international scientific encounters, and recognizes the proposal of the Government of Spain in establishing a centre for the research of Prehistory; 16. Recalling the Decision of the World Heritage Committee 31 COM.21C to carry out a programme of sustainable development concerning the conservation of earthen architecture, thanks the Governments of Italy and France for their support of the programme on earthen architecture in Africa and the Arab States in particular, and requests the potential financial donors and the States Parties to support the implementation of activities and further requests the World Heritage Centre to submit a progress report at its 35th session in 2011; 17.