North America

• Canada
• United States of America

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Europe

• Follow-up
• Results
• Periodic Reporting 2001-2006
• Periodic Report and Action Plan, Europe 2005-2006

• Contact us

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Follow-up

Subregional meetings

• 18 - 19 April 2008, Periodic Reporting Follow-up Meeting for the Mediterranean and South-eastern Europe subregions, Corfou, Greece
  
• 14 - 15 September 2007 Periodic Reporting Follow-up Meeting for Eastern and Central Europe, Wroclaw, Poland
• 3-4 May 2007, Meeting for the follow-up on Periodic Reporting for the Nordic and Baltic sub-region, Helsinki
• 2-3 May 2007, Meeting for follow-up on Periodic Reporting for Western Europe, Vienna
• 19-20 February 2007, Focal Point Meeting of the Mediterranean Sub-region, Madrid
• 10-11 December 2006, Southeast European Focal Point Meeting, Thessaloniki
• 23-24 October 2006, World Heritage and European Periodic Report follow-up, West European Focal Points Meeting, Paris

National meetings

• 15 December 2006, National meeting for follow-up on Periodic Reporting, Stockholm

Results

• Committee Decision, 2006, Lithuania
  (WHC-06/30.COM/19/11A.1)
• Information Committee document, 2006, Lithuania
  (WHC-06/30.COM/Inf.11A.1)

Periodic Reporting 2001-2006

Circular Letters to the States Parties

• European Periodic Reporting on the application of the World Heritage Convention and on the state of conservation of World Heritage properties
  letter Ref: CL/WHC-06/05, 15 September 2006
• Presentation of results to the 30th session of the World Heritage Committee (Vilnius, Lithuania, July 2006): 8 March 2006,
  letter Ref: CL/WHC-06/03, 8 March 2006
• Information on Section II – New Submission Deadline : 31 October 2005,
  letter Ref: CL/WHC.01/05, 20 February 2005
• LAST REMINDER for the Submission of Section I,
  letter ref: CL/WHC.06/04, November 2004
• Information on Section I - Electronic Tool,
  letter ref. CL/WHC/19, December 2003
• Appointment of national coordinators for Periodic Reporting,
  letter ref.CL/WHC/14/02, November 2002

Background documents

• Article 29 of the World Heritage Convention
• Operational Guidelines and Format
• Operational Guidelines, historical development

World Heritage Committee Documents

• Committee Report ,2001, Helsinki
  (WHC-01/CONF.208/24/VII)
• Committee Report, 2002, Budapest
  (WHC-02/CONF.202/25/17.2)
• Committee Decisions, 2003, Paris
  (WHC-03/27COM/24/6B)
• Committee Document, 2005, Durban
  (WHC.05/29.COM/11B)
• Committee Document, 2005, Durban (WHC.05/29.COM/INF.11B)
• Committee Decision, 2006, Lithuania
  (WHC-06/30.COM/19/11A.1)
• Information Committee document, 2006, Lithuania
  (WHC-06/30.COM/Inf.11A.1)

Questionnaire on Periodic Reporting (Section I & Section II)

Section I

Section I should be submitted to the World Heritage Centre before December 2004, preferably already in July 2004. The Centre will submit the report for Section I to the World Heritage Committee in June/July 2005. All the 50 States Parties participating in this Periodic Reporting exercise have to fill in Section I of the Report.

• Questionnaire Section I (Word version)
• Questionnaire Section I (online Version)
  

Section II

Section II should be submitted to the World Heritage Centre before December 2005, preferably already in July 2005. The Centre will submit the report for Section II to the World Heritage Committee in June/July 2006.

• Questionnaire Section II (Word Version)
  
• Questionnaire Section II (online version)

User's Manual

• User's Manual (Word version)

• Usernames and Passwords
  Only the Focal Points who have been officialy assigned by the States Parties will receive an username and a password.
  For more information please contact Europe Section

Events and timetable

2006

• February, Mediterranean Meeting, Rome, Italy
• 1-3 March, Meeting for Periodic Reporting in Europe, UNESCO Headquarters
• 13 July, Lunchtime meeting during 30th session of the World Heritage Committee, Vilnius

2005

• 9 March, Meeting of the Europe and North america region on World Heritage Periodic Reporting, UNESCO Headquarters
• 14 July, Lunchtime meeting during 29th session of the World Heritage Committee, Durban
• 8 - 9 November, Meeting on World Heritage Periodic Reporting in Europe: Towards an Action Plan, Berlin

2004

• 21-23 January, Second North American Periodic Reporting Meeting, Quebec, Canada
  
• 3-7 March, South Eastern Europe Periodic Reporting Meeting, Trieste, Italy
• 11 March, Europe Periodic Reporting information meeting at UNESCO Headquarters (after the Information Meeting of the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention)
• 21 - 25, April Central-Eastern European Periodic Reporting Meeting, Hungary
• 29 April – 2 May, Follow-up meeting Russia and CIS countries, Moscow, Russia
• 6- 8 May, Periodic Reporting Workshop for Central Europe, Visegrad, Hungary
  
• 14-15 May, Periodic Reporting Meeting of the Iberian Peninsula, Lisbon, Portugal
  
• June/July, Information meeting during the 28th session of the World Heritage Committee (Suzhou, China)
• 7 December, Information meeting on Periodic Reporting, UNESCO, Paris
  

National Meeting: 9-10 September, First Periodic Reporting meeting of all French site managers, Val de Loire, France

2003

• January, First joint meeting of World Heritage site managers of the United States and Canada for the Periodic Reporting Exercise, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
• January, Information meeting for all European State Parties, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
  
• May, First Joint European and World Heritage network meeting, Nicosia, Cyprus
  
• July, Periodic Reporting Information meeting in UNESCO Headquarters (during 27th Committee session)
  
• July, Periodic Reporting meeting for site managers from German speaking countries (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), Brühl, Germany
  
• August, Management of Natural World Heritage Sites in the Russian Federation, Vilm, Germany
  
• September, Periodic Reporting meeting for the Baltic Region and Nordic countries, Riga, Latvia
  
• September, Periodic Reporting meeting for cultural heritage for Russia and Eastern European CIS countries, Moscow, Russia
  

National Meeting: April, UK Periodic Reporting Meeting, London, U.K.

2002

• June, Information Meetings during the 26th Committee Session, Budapest, Hungary

Contact us

Names and addresses of the World Heritage Centre's Europe and North America Section