EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 5.1
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
2.3. The Participants share the view that the permanent trilateral working group may
establish by mutual consent further specific task groups to address, inter alia, topics
of the different areas of cooperation as specified in section 3.
2.4. The permanent participants in the trilateral working group should be the
representatives of the Ministries for Environment and/or Nature Conservation on
national level, and in Germany on Länder level, and representatives of the relevant
protected areas. By mutual consent of the Participants, experts and representatives
of other institutions/ organisations may be invited to meetings.
2.5. Meetings:
• Meeting frequency: One regular meeting per year (and additional extraordinary
meetings if required and by prior consent of all Participants).
• Meeting venue: Alternating in one of the three Participants.
• Chair: Participant hosting the meeting.
• Language: Meetings should be held in English unless consented otherwise.
3 . AREAS OF COOPERATION
The Participants intend to cooperate, inter alia, on the following topics:
3.1. the development and implementation of common principles and objectives
based on
the defined outstanding Universal Value,
3.2.
a joint management approach (including legal issues),
3.3. a joint monitoring concept and implementation,
3.4. research concepts, programmes and projects (including
inventories, research on
natural forest ecosystems, anthropogenic impact assessments, response to climate
change, etc.),
3.5. training and capacity building (including
training institutions, exchange among
specialists),
3.6. securing adequate resources
and funding,
3.7. communication, education and public awareness,
3.8. sustainable tourism,
3.9. sustainable development
in the wider context.
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