Technical notes (a) Derivation of terms

Party submits a new nomination of a property
already inscribed in the World Heritage
List. Renominations may be useful for the purpose
of boundary change or expansion and/or re-evaluation of the
values and the criteria for which the property
had been previously inscribed in the World Heritage
List.
Reporting

see Monitoring, Reactive monitoring, Systematic

monitoring and reporting


Rome Centre

see (ICCROM) International Centre for the Study of the

Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property


Routes

see Heritage route

Rules of Procedure

In complying with Article 10 (1) of the Convention the

World Heritage Committee adopted Rules of Procedure
at its first session and amended them at its second and
third sessions (UNESCO n.d.). The Rules of Procedure
include reference to the conduct of World Heritage Bureau
and Committee meetings.

S

Safeguarding


Safeguarding is used interchangeably with
conservation, preservation and protection
in the Convention and the Operational
Guidelines.
see Conservation, Preservation, Protection


Secretariat

Article 14 of the Convention notes that the World

Heritage Committee "shall be assisted by a Secretariat
appointed by the Director-General" of UNESCO. Since
1992 the World Heritage Centre, located at UNESCO
Headquarters in Paris, France, has performed the role of
the Secretariat to the World Heritage Committee
and its Bureau. The Secretariat is responsible
for the daily administrative and technical management of the
Convention. The World Heritage Centre prepares
the documentation for the Committee and its
Bureau and has the responsibility for the
implementation of their decisions.


Series

A series of cultural or natural properties

situated in different geographical locations may be
proposed for inclusion in the World Heritage List in a
single nomination provided they are related because
they belong to:
(i) the same historico-cultural group or
(ii) the same type of property which is
characteristic of the geographical zone
(iii) the same geomorphological formation, the same
biogeographic province, or the same ecosystem
type
and provided that it is the series as such, and not
its components taken individually, which is of outstanding
universal value (UNESCO February 1996: 6, Paragraph 19).

see Serial property