Submitting States and priorities for 2023 cycle

Under Decision 15.COM 9, the Committee made two decisions: it set the total number of files for the 2022 and 2023 cycles at 110 at least (55 in 2022 and 55 in 2023), and it decided that one file per submitting State should be processed during the two-year period of 2022–2023 (known as priority (0)). In other words, those States Parties that submitted files that could not be treated in the 2022 cycle will see their files given priority in the 2023 cycle, following the principle of one file per submitting State during the two year period (2022-2023).

When establishing the list of nomination files to be treated, the conditions mentioned above are combined with the level of priorities stated in paragraph 34 of the Operational Directives:

• (i) Files from States having no elements inscribed, good safeguarding practices selected or requests for International Assistance greater than US$100,000 approved, and nominations to the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding;
• (ii) Multinational files; and
• (iii) Files from States with the fewest elements inscribed, good safeguarding practices selected or requests for International Assistance greater than US$100,000 approved, in comparison with other submitting States during the same cycle.

The following files will be examined at the eighteenth session of the Committee to be held in November / December 2023:

• 44 national files under priority (0)
• 5 files under priority (i); in addition to two files for the Urgent Safeguarding List and one file from a State with no inscribed element, this group also includes two multinational files with at least one submitting State that has no national elements inscribed
• 11 multinational files under priority (ii)
• Total: 60 files