The Committee decided (Decision 5.COM 7) to convene before its sixth session an open ended intergovernmental working group to discuss possible measures to improve the treatment of nominations to the Representative List by the Committee, Subsidiary Body and the Secretariat.

Amendment proposals to the Operational Directives
- Albania: English|French
- China: English|French
- France: English|French
- Italy: English|French

This working group met from Monday 12 to Tuesday 13 September 2011 at UNESCO Headquarters, in Paris (Room XI, Fontenoy building), from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Japan has generously offered to bear the costs related to this three-day meeting of the working group. The registration form (English/French) should be returned before 5 September.

The Committee also invited the States Parties to submit to the Secretariat their points of view on the terms of reference of the Subsidiary Body (Decision 5.COM 7 alinea 6) and on possible revisions of the criteria for inscription on the lists of the Convention (Decision 5.COM 10.1 alinea 5), and to circulate them to the States Parties before the meeting of the Working Group. The comments received are available online, in the two working languages of the Committee.

Documents

• Provisional agenda
  ITH/11/6.COM WG/1Rev.: English|French
• Excerpts of the draft summary records of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (15 to 19 November 2010, Nairobi) on the establishment of a Subsidiary Body
  ITH/11/6.COM WG/2: English|French
• Excerpts of the draft summary records of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (15 to 19 November 2010, Nairobi) on the reflection on the criteria for inscription
  ITH/11/6.COM WG/3: English|French
• Decisions 5.COM 7 and 5.COM 10.1
  ITH/11/6.COM WG/4: English|French
• List of participants
  ITH/11/6.COM WG/5: English/French

• Comments of States Parties