Decision of the Bureau: 15.COM 3.BUR 4

The Bureau,

  1. Having examined document LHE/20/15.COM 3.BUR/4 and its annexes,
  2. Recalling Decision 14.COM 20 and Decision 15.COM 1.BUR 1,
  3. Invites the members of the Committee to express their preference, on the basis of explanations to be provided by the Secretariat, between a fully online meeting from 14 to 19 December 2020 and a postponement of the fifteenth session to 2021 until such a time that a presential meeting can be safely held and requests the Secretariat to organize an electronic consultation with all Committee members and publish the results nominally so that the Bureau will be able to take a decision electronically;
  4. Understands, in the eventuality that a fully online modality is selected, that:
  • financial assistance to cover the participation costs for States members of the Committee from developing countries, normally provided by the Fund for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, cannot be foreseen for the fifteenth session of the Committee;
  • the Committee is recommended to adopt a provisional agenda for the fifteenth session of the Committee, as contained in Annex 3;
  • the Secretariat will propose a provisional timetable for the fifteenth session of the Committee that is suitable for an online meeting, for examination by the Bureau (electronic consultation).

 

Annex 3: Proposed agenda

  1. Opening
  2. Adoption of the agenda
  3. Replacement of the Rapporteur
  4. Observers
  5. Adoption of the summary records of the fourteenth session of the Committee
  6. Report of the Non-Governmental Organizations Forum
  7. Examination of the reports of States Parties on the current status of elements inscribed on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
  8. Report of the Evaluation Body on its work in 2020
    a. Examination of nominations for inscription on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
    b. Examination of nominations for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
    c. Examination of proposals to the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
    d. Examination of requests for International Assistance
  9. Number of files submitted for the 2020 and 2021 cycles and number of files that can be treated in the 2022 and 2023 cycles
  10. Establishment of the Evaluation Body for the 2021 cycle
  11. Date and venue of the sixteenth session of the Committee
  12. Election of the members of the Bureau of the sixteenth session of the Committee
  13. Other business
  14. Adoption of the list of decisions
  15. Closure

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