France and the 2003 Convention

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Expert meeting on the nature and purposes of the listing mechanisms under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage [Meeting postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic – new dates and modalities to be communicated shortly]

2 September 2020

The threefold listing system of the 2003 Convention became truly operational in 2009, with the first inscriptions on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage ›››

Fest-noz vras Kalanna

31 December 2019

Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in formal and non-formal education

7 October 2019

Periodic reporting

On the implementation of the Convention

15/12/2012 (submitted in 2013)
15/12/2021

On Urgent Safeguarding List elements

Cantu in paghjella, a secular and liturgical oral tradition of Corsica

2009

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Ratification of the Convention on

11 July 2006

Read the Convention in: [name_language]

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Membership and participation

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Listing of ICH

Scribing tradition in French timber framing (2009, RL)

18 elements inscribed

2019: Alpinism (RL)
2018: The skills related to perfume in Pays de Grasse: the cultivation of perfume plants, the knowledge and processing of natural raw materials, and the art of perfume composition (RL)
2018: Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques (RL)
2016: Carnival of Granville (RL)
2016: Falconry, a living human heritage (RL)
2015: Summer solstice fire festivals in the Pyrenees (RL)
2014: Gwoka: music, song, dance and cultural practice representative of Guadeloupean identity (RL)
2013: Limousin septennial ostensions (RL)
2012: Fest-Noz, festive gathering based on the collective practice of traditional dances of Brittany (RL)
2011: Equitation in the French tradition (RL)
2010: Gastronomic meal of the French (RL)
2010: Craftsmanship of Alençon needle lace-making (RL)
2010: Compagnonnage, network for on-the-job transmission of knowledge and identities (RL)
2009: Maloya (RL)
2009: Aubusson tapestry (RL)
2009: Scribing tradition in French timber framing (RL)
2009: Cantu in paghjella, a secular and liturgical oral tradition of Corsica (USL)
2008: Processional giants and dragons in Belgium and France (RL)

On-going nomination(s)

2020: Craft techniques and customary practices of cathedral workshops, or Bauhütten, in Europe, know-how, transmission, development of knowledge and innovation (Art18)
2020: Craftsmanship of mechanical watchmaking and art mechanics (RL)
2020: Musical art of horn players, an instrumental technique linked to singing, breath control, vibrato, resonance and conviviality (RL)
2020: The Martinique yole, from construction to sailing practices, a model for heritage safeguarding (Art18)
2020: The art of glass beads (RL)