The road towards becoming a world heritage site –

Finnish toughts on the worldheritage list

Stefan Wessman

Senior adviser

National Board of Antiquities

Nomination process

• Tentative List• An ‘inventory' of important natural and cultural heritage sites located within the State Parties

boundaries. The Committee cannot consider a nomination for inscription on the World Heritage List unless the property has already been included on the State Party's Tentative List

• The Nomination File• By preparing a Tentative List and selecting sites from it, a State Party can plan when to present a

nomination file. The nomination is submitted to the World Heritage Centre for review and to check it is complete. Once a nomination file is complete the World Heritage Centre sends it to the appropriate Advisory Bodies for evaluation

• The Advisory Bodies• A nominated property is independently evaluated by two Advisory Bodies mandated by the World

Heritage Convention: the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), which respectively provide the World Heritage Committee with evaluations of the cultural and natural sites nominated.

• The World Heritage Committee• Once a site has been nominated and evaluated, it is up to the intergovernmental World Heritage

Committee to make the final decision on its inscription.

Tentative Lists

• A Tentative List is an inventory of those properties which each State Party intends to consider for nomination

• The tentative list is a forecast of the properties that the State Party may decide to submit for inscription in the next five to ten years

• States Parties are encouraged to re-examine and re-submit their Tentative List at least every ten years.

Petäjävesi Old Church

Kizhi Pogost

Urnes stave church

Petäjävesi Old Church

Roskilde Cathedral

Solovetsky Islands

GammelstadChurch Town

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Finland´s tentative list

• Paimio Hospital (formerly Paimio Sanatorium) (28/01/2004)

• Saimaa-Pielinen Lake System (28/01/2004)

• The Carvings from historic time at the island of Gäddtarmen(Hauensuoli) (01/10/1990)

• The Holy place of worship of Ukonsaari by the Sami people at Inari (01/10/1990)

• The large Stone Age ruin of Kastelli at Pattijoki (01/10/1990)

• The Rock paintings of Astuvansalmi at Ristiina (01/10/1990)

Nomination

• Preparations• Setting up a project• Collecting existing information• Involving local people and stakeholders

• Defining and understanding the property• Identifying the outstanding universal value• Global comparative analysis• Comfirming the criterias• Integrity and auteticity• Protection and management

• Writing and preparation of the nomination

• Evaluation process

• World Heritage committee

Nominations

• 36 nominations-> 26 new objects and four extensions were approved

• Fifteen recommended inscriptions were inscribed on the WH-list

• Two referrals -> inscription

• Eight deferralia -> inscription

• One non-inscription was changed to deferral

• One non-inscription was changed to referral

• One non-inscription was inscribed on the list as a emergencynomination

Decorated cave of Pont d’Arc, France http://whc.unesco.org

Nominations: OKAVANGO – delta, Botswana

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State of Conservation

• Old city of Dubrovnik

• Westminister Palace, Westminister Abbey

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• Bagrati cathedral and Gelati monastery, Georgia

• Humberstone and Santa Laura salpeter works, Chile

World Heritage in danger

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World Heritage in danger

• Standing Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afganistan

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World Heritage in danger• Syria, all sites

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World Heritage in danger

Democratic republic

of the Congo, all sites

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