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Die "Cairns Decision" des UNESCO-Welterbekomitees

Eingestellt am 14. Februar 2006 um 19:24 Uhr
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Im Zentrum des Maßnahmenpakets, daß in Cairns auf der 24. Sitzung des UNESCO-Welterbekomitees beschlossen wurde, und das mittlerweile als Cairns Decision bezeichnet wird stand die Verbesserung der Repräsentativität der Welterbeliste und das Management des Arbeitspensums für das UNESCO-Welterbekomitee, das UNESCO-Welterbezentrum und die Advisory Bodies.

Eine (umstrittene) Maßnahme war die Beschränkung der Nominierungen pro Jahr auf 30 Vorschläge:

Nominations
In order to promote the effective management of the increasing size of the World Heritage List, the Committee at each ordinary session will set the maximum number of nominations to be considered. In the first instance and on an interim basis, it is proposed that at the twenty-seventh session of the Committee in 2003, the number of nominations examined by the Committee will be limited to a maximum of 30 new sites. In order to determine which sites should be given priority for consideration, all nominations to be considered at the twenty-seventh session of the Committee must be received in full by the new due date of 1 February 2002 agreed by the Committee as part of the change of cycle of meetings. No State Parties should submit more than one nomination, except those States Parties that have no sites inscribed on the World Heritage List who will have the opportunity to propose two or three nominations. In order to address the issue of representivity of the List the following criteria will be applied in order of priority2: In the event that the number of nominations received exceeds the maximum number set by the Committee, the following priority system will be applied each year by the World Heritage Centre before nominations are transmitted to the advisory bodies for evaluation, in determining which sites should be taken forward for consideration: 2 In nominating properties to the List, States Parties are invited 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)

1. Nominations of sites submitted by a State Party with no sites inscribed on the List;3
   
2. Nominations of sites from any State Party that illustrate un-represented or less represented categories of natural and cultural properties, as determined by analyses prepared by the Secretariat and the Advisory Bodies and reviewed and approved by the Committee;
   
3. Other nominations.

When applying this priority system, date of receipt of full and complete nominations by the World Heritage Centre shall be used as the secondary determining factor within the category where the number of nominations established by the Committee is reached. In addition to the approved maximum number of sites, the Committee will also consider nominations deferred, or referred, from previous meetings and changes to the boundaries of already inscribed properties. The Committee may also decide to consider, on an emergency basis, situations falling under paragraph 67 of the Operational Guidelines.
Quelle: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001222/122250e.pdf

Für den Fall, daß mehr als 30 Anträge eingehen sollten Nominierungen aus unterrepräsentierten Kategorien bevorzugt werden.

Auf der 27. Sitzung des UNESCO-Welterbekomitees 2003 in Paris wurde die Cairns Decision evaluiert und angepasst:

The World Heritage Committee,

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; 67 See Decision 27 COM 2 Decisions adopted by the 27th session WHC-03/27.COM/24, p. 127 of the World Heritage Committee in 2003
   
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 set at 40 the annual limit on the number of new nominations it will review, exclusive of nominations deferred and referred by previous sessions of the Committee, changes to the boundaries of properties already inscribed, transboundary nominations and nominations submitted on an emergency basis;
   
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);
   
6. Requests States Parties to send comments and proposals on the Cairns Decision to the World Heritage Centre by 31 December 2003. Comments, sent by post, by facsimile to +33 (0)1 4568 5570, or by e-mail to cairns@unesco.org, will be made available on the World Heritage web site at the following address: http://whc.unesco.org/cairns/;
   
7. Decides to establish, at the beginning of the 28th session of the Committee in Suzhou, China (2004), an open-ended working group to review the comments of States Parties, documents (including the results of the Advisory Bodies' analyses of the World Heritage List and Tentative Lists, and the Report of the 1999/2000 working group on the Representativity of the World Heritage List) and statistics relative to the operation of the Cairns Decision, and to make recommendations to the Committee. For this purpose, the World Heritage Centre will distribute the necessary documentation as early as possible prior to the 28th session to be held in 2004.

Quelle:http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001331/133114e.pdf

2003 wurde also die Zahl der zugelassenen neuen Nominierungen wieder auf 40 pro Jahr erhöht, zuzüglich der Nominierungen die in einer früheren Sitzung zurückgewiesen wurden, Veränderungen an bestehenden UNESCO-Welterbestätten, Multinationalen Nominierungen und Anträgen, bei denen
Gefahr im Verzug ist.

Die Begründung für die Begrenzung der Zahl an Nominierungen ist in beiden Sitzungen ausschließlich auf die beschränkten vorhandenen Ressourcen gestützt, da aus der UNESCO-Konvention zum Schutz der Kultur- und Naturgüter der Menschheit (Artikel 11) keine Limitierung abzuleiten ist.

Die Diskussion über die Repräsentativität der UNESCO-Welterbeliste zeigt allerdings z.B. im Filling the Gaps-Report von ICOMOS, daß es große Unterschiede hinsichtlich der Verteilung der Stätten gibt und Anhaltspunkte für eine ausgewogenere UNESCO-Welterbeliste entwickelt werden müssen.

Cairns, Australien in der Nähe der Feuchten Tropen Queenslands, einer UNESCO-Welterbestätte Quelle:WIKIPEDIA, GNU