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World Heritage 26 COM Distribution limited WHC-02/CONF.202/20 Rev Paris, 29 June 2002 Original : English/French UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE 30th Anniversary (1972-2002) WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE Twenty-sixth session Budapest, Hungary 24 - 29 June 2002 Item 23 of the Provisional Agenda: Information on Tentative Lists and Examination of nominations of cultural and natural properties to the List of World Heritage in Danger and the World Heritage List SUMMARY This document presents the nominations proposed to be examined by the Committee in 2002. It is divided into four sections and an Annex: I Examination of nominations for the List of World Heritage in Danger II Examination of Tentative Lists III Examination of nominations to the World Heritage List IV Examination of a deferred nomination to be reactivated at the request of the Committee Annex I Tentative Lists of all States Parties Decisions required: 1. In accordance with paragraphs 92 and 93 of the Operational Guidelines (March 1999), the Committee is requested to examine the inscription of properties in, and the deletion of properties from, the List of World Heritage in Danger. 2. In accordance with paragraph 65 of the Operational Guidelines (March 1999), the Committee also is requested to examine the nominations for inscription on the World Heritage List on the basis of the Bureau's recommendations as well as additional information submitted by States Parties and evaluated by the Advisory Bodies. The Committee takes its decisions in the following three categories: (a) properties which it inscribes on the World Heritage List; (b) properties which it decides not to inscribe on the List; (c) properties whose consideration is deferred. I. Examination of nominations for the A list of all sites submitted on Tentative Lists received from these States Parties is attached as Annex 1, in English List of World Heritage in Danger alphabetical order. Site names are listed in the language in which they have been submitted by the State Party. The 26th session of the Bureau (April 2002) recommended that the World Heritage Committee inscribe Lake Baikal The table in Annex 1 presents a full list of States Parties (Russian Federation) on the List of World Heritage in indicating the date of the most recent Tentative List Danger (see WHC-02/CONF.202/17). submission. In a letter received from the Afghan authorities on 6 May Contents of the Annex: 2002 the State Party indicated its willingness for the Situation relative to Tentative Lists page 10 "Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam" to be Africa Annex page 1 included on the List of World Heritage in Danger should the Arab States page 2 Committee decide to include the site on the World Heritage Asia / Pacific page 3 List (see section IV of this document). Europe / North America page 6 Latin America / Caribbean page 13 II. Examination of Tentative Lists At previous sessions, the Committee expressed its concern III. Examination of nominations of on the small number of tentative lists that meet the requirements as stipulated in the Operational Guidelines cultural, natural, and mixed (March 1999), paragraphs 7 and 8, and confirmed the properties to the World Heritage List importance of these lists for planning purposes, comparative analyses of nominations and for facilitating the The 26th session of the Bureau (April 2002) examined a undertaking of the global and thematic studies. These lists total of 15 nominations, of which three were natural constitute also an inventory of the properties situated within properties, one was a mixed property, ten were cultural the territory of each State Party, and which it considers properties, and one was an extension to a cultural property. suitable for inclusion on the World Heritage List. Of the three natural properties examined, the Bureau decided that all three should be referred back to the States Therefore, the Committee invited the States Parties, which Parties concerned for re-formulation or additional had not yet done so, to submit tentative lists in accordance information. At its 24th session in Cairns, Australia (2000), with the Operational Guidelines, with the understanding the Committee decided that "referrals of nominations would that "preparatory assistance should be provided if be re-examined by the Bureau in the year following initial necessary and requested by the State Party concerned". At examination, before proceeding to the Committee for its twenty-fourth session (Cairns, 2000), the Committee examination." Therefore, no natural property nominations confirmed that the tentative lists would be mandatory for are being presented to the Committee at its 26th session. all properties which the State Party intends to nominate for The Committee is, however, asked to approve a minor inscription on the World Heritage List during the coming boundary extension of one natural property. five to ten years. The Bureau recommended also that one mixed property be As of 15 May 2002, of the 167 which had ratified the inscribed for cultural values only. Of the ten cultural Convention, 122 States Parties had submitted Tentative properties examined, the Bureau recommended that the Lists in accordance with the criteria specified in the Committee inscribe nine. The extension of one cultural Operational Guidelines, 45 States Parties had not property was also recommended for approval. submitted any tentative list. All the nominations submitted for examination in 2002 are included on the tentative lists of Consequently, with the exception of the extension to one the States concerned. natural property, only cultural properties are presented to the 26th session of the Committee. Examination of Nominations to the World Heritage List WHC-02/CONF.202/20, p. 1 Alphabetical Summary Table of Recommendations by the 26th Session of the Bureau (April 2002) State Party World Heritage Nominations Id No. Decision or Recommendation of Bureau Natural Properties Benin Pendjari and W National Parks 1062 R Kenya Rift Valley Lakes Reserve 1060 Rev R Russian Federation/ Uvs Nuur Basin 769 Rev R Mongolia Mixed Property N / C Egypt Saint Catherine Area 954 - / I Cultural Properties Germany Upper Middle Rhine Valley 1066 I Germany Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar 1067 I Hungary Tokaji Wine Region Cultural Landscape 1063 I Hungary Andrássy Avenue and the Underground (extension to 400 Bis OK "Budapest, the Banks of the Danube and the Buda Castle Quarter") India The Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya 1056 Rev I Italy The Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 1068 I Italy The Late Baroque Towns of the Val de Noto (South-eastern 1024 I Sicily) Mexico The Ancient Maya City of Calakmul, Campeche 1061 I Morocco Portuguese City of El Jadida (Mazagan) 1058 D Poland Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland 1053 I Suriname The Historic Inner City of Paramaribo 940 Rev I KEY I Recommendation for inscription N Recommendation for rejection R Recommendation for referral D Recommendation for deferral OK Recommendation for approval of an extension N/C Natural/Cultural (recommendation for a natural/cultural mixed site) A. NATURAL PROPERTIES 6 June 2002, have requested that the boundaries of the World Heritage protected area be extended to 22 km (12 A.1 Extension of a natural property already nautical miles), to better protect the marine biodiversity of the inscribed on the World Heritage List island. The total area of the marine protected zone would henceforth be 1,997 km2 (199,700 ha). Property Extension of the Marine Zone of IUCN Recommendation: Cocos Island National Park IUCN recommends that Cocos Island National Park World Id. N° 820 Bis Heritage site be extended to 22km (12 nautical miles) to be State Party Costa Rica commensurate with the new boundaries of the marine Criteria N (ii) (iv) protected area. Technical Summary: This site was inscribed on the World Heritage List at the 21st session of the World Heritage Committee (Naples, Italy, 1997). The site, 535km off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, as originally inscribed consisted of the entire landmass of Cocos Island (23.9 km2) in addition to a 15km radius marine zone (977km2). On the recommendation of the Committee at the time of inscription, and of the Bureau at its 26th session, the Costa Rican authorities, by letters received 25 April and Examination of Nominations to the World Heritage List WHC-02/CONF.202/20, p. 2 B. CULTURAL PROPERTIES B.2 HISTORIC TOWNS B.1 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES Property Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar Property The Ancient Maya City of Id. N° 1067 Germany Calakmul, Campeche State Party Criteria C (ii) (iv) Id. N° 1061 State Party Mexico Technical Summary: Criteria C (i)* (ii) (iii) (iv) The proposed nomination is for the historic centres of two 14th-century Hanseatic cities on the Baltic Sea, Technical Summary: approximately 120 km from each other. Calakmul is a 3,000-ha Mayan archaeological site in the State of Campeche in the centre of the Yucatan peninsula. It is surrounded by a nature reserve ("Zona Núcleo I") of Historic Town Centre Area Buffer Zone 147,195 ha, which is the buffer zone for the archaeological Straslund 80 ha 340 ha site. Wismar 88 ha 108 ha Total 168 ha 448 ha Recommendation of the 26th Session of the Bureau: That the property be inscribed on the World Heritage List on Recommendation of the 26th Session of the Bureau: the basis of cultural criteria (i)*, (ii), (iii), and (iv): That the property be inscribed on the World Heritage List on Criterion (i)* The many commemorative stelae at the basis of cultural criteria (ii) and (iv): Calakmul are outstanding examples of Maya art, which Criterion (ii) Wismar and Stralsund, leading centres of throw much light on the political and spiritual the Wendish section of the Hanseatic League from the development of the city.