EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 5.1
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
26 June to 1 July 2007: 31st session of the World Heritage Committee in Christchurch,
New Zealand:
Decision on inscription of Slovak Ukrainian nomination Primeval Beech Forests of the
Carpathians in World Heritage List.
Goal is Committee decision 'Inscription'. After inscription of Slovak-Ukrainian nomination
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians in World Heritage List, support for German beech
forest nomination and trilateral cooperation on joint tasks which result from envisaged
transnational (Slovak-Ukrainian-German) serial Beech Forest Property (e.g. management,
research).
In case of Committee decision 'Referral': prior to 1 February 2008 submission of revised
nomination, Committee decision at 32nd session in 2008.
German nomination (extension of Slovak-Ukrainian World Heritage Property of beech
forests through German cluster); the nomination file will be submitted to the World Heritage
Centre by 1 February 2009; the Committee will make its decision at its 33rd session in
2010. It was agreed that UNSCO World Heritage Centre should be informed that Slovak
Republic and Ukraine support subsequent extension through German beech forest cluster
(i.e. that a trinational property is envisaged).
The delegations designated the following coordinators for concrete technical questions
relating to the beech forest nomination in the run-up to the Committee's decision:
Slovak Republic: Professor Ivan Vološčuk and Dr Viliam Pichler
Ukraine: Prof. Fedir Hamor, Mr Vasyl Pokynchereda
Germany: Ms Barbara Engels/BfN, Mr Manfred Großmann /Thuringia
Designated contacts at the national environment ministries:
Slovak Republic: Dr Joseph Klinda
Ukraine: Ms Tetyana Granovska
Germany: Ms Heike Britz.
In the course of the meeting, Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection Dr Pavlo
Bolshakov suggested establishing key elements of future trilateral cooperation regarding
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