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World Heritage 40 COM WHC/16/40.COM/8A Paris, 6 September 2016 Original: English / French UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE Fortieth session Istanbul, Turkey 10 - 20 July 2016 Item 8 of the Provisional Agenda: 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 2016, in conformity with the Operational Guidelines SUMMARY This document presents the Tentative Lists of all States Parties submitted in conformity with the Operational Guidelines as of 15 April 2016. The World Heritage Committee is requested to note that all nominations of properties to be examined by the 40th session of the Committee are included on the Tentative Lists of the respective States Parties. • Annex 1 presents a full list of States Parties indicating the date of the most recent Tentative List submission; • Annex 2 presents new Tentative Lists (or additions to Tentative Lists) submitted by States Parties since 16 April 2015; • Annex 3 presents a list of all sites submitted on Tentative Lists received from the States Parties, in alphabetical order. Draft Decision: 40 COM 8A, see Point II I. EXAMINATION OF TENTATIVE LISTS 1. The World Heritage Convention provides that States Parties to the Convention shall submit to the World Heritage Committee an inventory of the cultural and natural properties situated within its territory, which it considers suitable for inscription on the World Heritage List, and which it intends to nominate during the following five to ten years. At its 24th session (Cairns, 2000), the Committee confirmed the importance of these Lists, also known as Tentative Lists, for planning purposes, comparative analyses of nominations and for facilitating the undertaking of global and thematic studies. It also decided that inclusion on the Tentative List would be mandatory for all sites that the State Party intends to nominate for inscription on the World Heritage List. 2. According to paragraph 65 of the Operational Guidelines, States Parties shall submit Tentative Lists at least one year prior to the submission of any nomination. Annex 2A of the Operational Guidelines shall be used as the Tentative List submission format for national sites. Annex 2B of the Operational Guidelines shall be used for all transnational and transboundary sites. The Tentative List submission for such transnational and transboundary sites will be valid only after the submission of all the States Parties involved. 3. In considering the use of Tentative Lists as a means for achieving the objectives of the Global Strategy, the Special Expert Meeting on “The Concept of Outstanding Universal Value”, Kazan, Russian Federation (April 2005), recommended that: States Parties should each establish a coordination mechanism with an interdisciplinary composition to undertake and effectively oversee the implementation of the World Heritage Convention and the preparation and review of Tentative Lists in particular; Tentative Lists should be seen as part of the effort of conservation of national heritage; Properties on Tentative Lists should have national and/or other appropriate recognition; Compilation of Tentative Lists should involve local communities and indigenous peoples and should include public consultation where appropriate; The compilation of Tentative Lists should take into account the Global Strategy, comparative studies and the Advisory Bodies’ gap analysis; The preparation of Tentative Lists should give due regard to other international conventions and programmes; In preparation of their Tentative Lists, States Parties should be rigorous in their local evaluation to ensure that expectations of inscription match reality; The size of a Tentative List should take into account the Cairns-Suzhou decision (Decision 28 COM 13.1) and the 10-year cycle of the Tentative List recommended by the Operational Guidelines (paragraph 65); The comparative analysis should be developed by regions and themes; Regional meetings on harmonization of Tentative Lists should identify types of properties for nomination in a given region, and those for possible inclusion as transnational and transboundary properties; States Parties with no Tentative List should be encouraged to request preparatory International Assistance, if necessary, for preparing their Tentative List; The Advisory Bodies, within their available resources, should comment on the Tentative Lists submitted by States Parties as of 15 April 2016 WHC/16/40.COM/8A p. 1 Tentative Lists of all States Parties upon request. 4. The resource manual Preparing World Heritage Nominations (http://whc.unesco.org/en/ preparing-world-heritage-nominations/) may also prove useful for the preparation of Tentative Lists. 5. As also noted in Document WHC/16/40.COM/9A in order for the Upstream Process to be more effective, the upstream support should ideally take place at an earlier stage of the nomination process, more precisely at the moment of revision of the States Parties Tentative Lists. Moreover, paragraph 71 of the Operational Guidelines encourages States Parties to seek, as early as possible, upstream advice during the development and revision of their Tentative Lists. While this important aspect has been repeatedly emphasized, only one request for upstream advice for the revision of a Tentative List has been registered so far. 6. In its Decision 38 COM 8A, the World Heritage Committee requested “the World Heritage Centre to present a proposal for revising the procedure of registration of Tentative Lists in the Operational Guidelines, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 39th session, in 2015”. At the 39th session, the Working Group on the Revision of the Operational Guidelines could not reach a consensus on the proposed amendment and the Committee in its Decision 39 COM 11 decided to re-examine paragraph 68 as well as Annex 2A at its 40th session. Accordingly, the Secretariat made a proposal for the revision of paragraph 68 of the Operational Guidelines, which is included in Document WHC/16/40.COM/11. 7. As of 15 April 2016, of the 191 States Parties which have ratified the Convention, 180 have submitted Tentative Lists in accordance with the requirements specified in the Operational Guidelines. 11 States Parties have not submitted any Tentative Lists. All nominations submitted for examination in 2016 (see Document WHC/16/40.COM/8B) are included in the Tentative Lists of the States Parties concerned. 8. In conformity with Committee Decision 27 COM 8A, paragraph 4, the Tentative Lists submissions received since 16 April 2015 are presented in Annex 2 of this document. Since 16 April 2015, 26 States Parties have submitted new Tentative Lists or have modified existing Lists, which meet all the requirements of paragraph 68 of the Operational Guidelines. The number of new sites added to existing Tentative Lists is 64. 9. In conformity with paragraph 68 of the Operational Guidelines, inscribed properties and nominated sites which the Committee decides not to inscribe on the World Heritage List are removed from the Tentative Lists of States Parties. 10. In conformity with the Operational Guidelines, paragraph 69, the complete Tentative Lists of all States Parties are accessible to the public at the following web address of the World Heritage Centre: http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists. 11. States Parties, which have not yet done so, are invited to submit Tentative Lists in accordance with the Operational Guidelines. Preparatory assistance can be provided if necessary and requested by the State Party concerned. Tentative Lists submitted by States Parties as of 15 April 2016 WHC/16/40.COM/8A p. 2 II. DRAFT DECISION Draft Decision: 40 COM 8A The World Heritage Committee, 1. Having examined Document WHC/16/40.COM/8A, 2. Stressing the importance of the process of revision and updating of Tentative Lists, as a tool for regional harmonisation of the World Heritage List and of long-term planning of its development; 3. Encourages States Parties to seek as early as possible upstream advice from the Advisory Bodies during the development or revision of their Tentative Lists as appropriate; 4. Takes note of the Tentative Lists presented in Annexes 2 and 3 of this document. Tentative Lists submitted by States Parties as of 15 April 2016 WHC/16/40.COM/8A p. 3 Content of the Annexes Annex 1 List of States Parties indicating the page 5 date of the most recent Tentative List submission Annex 2 New Tentative Lists and additions to page 7 Tentative Lists submitted since 16 April 2015 Annex 3 World Heritage Tentative Lists by page 9 region: page 9 Africa page 11 Arab States page 13 Asia and the Pacific page 18 Europe and North America page 24 Latin America and the Caribbean Tentative Lists submitted by States Parties as of 15 April 2016 WHC/16/40.COM/8A p. 4 Annex 1 List of States Parties indicating the date of the most recent Tentative List submission Absence of a date indicates that the State Party has not yet submitted a Tentative List in conformity with the requirements of the Operational Guidelines. State Party Last Bahrain 29/05/2008 Revision Egypt 03/09/2015 Iraq 28/03/2014 Africa Jordan 02/04/2015 Angola 03/06/2009 Kuwait 24/02/2015 Benin 22/01/2013 Lebanon 01/07/1996 Botswana 27/10/2010 Libya Burkina Faso 24/01/2012 Mauritania 14/06/2001 Burundi 09/05/2007 Morocco 27/11/2013 Cabo Verde 15/03/2016