EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 5.1
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
Summary minutes of the trilateral
meeting 'Nominating beech forests
for inscription in UNESCO World
Heritage List',
Isle of Vilm, Germany 7-8 May 2007
Dr Nickel from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear
Safety, head of the German delegation, opened the meeting.
In their opening statements Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection, Dr Pavlo
Bolshakov und Ms Janka Kročianová, representative of the Slovak Ministry of Environment,
both welcomed the BMU's initiative for a trilateral meeting with the aim of strengthening
cooperation in the framework of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. Both reiterated
the willingness of their ministries to support the addition of a cluster of selected German sites
of beech forests to the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians.
All three parties affirmed their willingness to cooperate closely in the framework of the
UNESCO World Heritage Convention and to support each other and coordinate efforts in
particular with regard to their beech forest nominations. Various scenarios and resulting
options for action were discussed, depending on the outcome of the IUCN recommendation
concerning the Slovak-Ukrainian nomination Primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and
the decision of the World Heritage Committee. The following schedule was agreed:
7/8 May 2007 First trilateral meeting on the Isle of Vilm
Mid-May 2007 (after 12 May): Publication of IUCN recommendation to World Heritage
Committee concerning the Slovak-Ukrainian nomination Primeval Beech Forests of the
Carpathians on the Internet on the UNESCO World Heritage Convention's website (Ms
Engels/BfN will send this to all participants of the trilateral meeting via e-mail). Assessment of
IUCN recommendation and discussion of technical key issues at expert level.
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