Rules of procedure

Adopted at CCAMLR-I (para 23), amended CCAMLR-XIII (ANX.4, App. 1), CCAMLR- XVII (ANX.4, App. III), CCAMLR-XVIII (para 3.5; ANX.4, para 38), CCAMLR-XXI (ANX.4, para 23), CCAMLR-XXX (ANX.5, para 22), CCAMLR-XXXI (ANX.7, para 4.15), CCAMLR-XXXVII (ANX.7, paras 20-26).

The Committee is responsible for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention. The Committee is elected by the General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention which also determines financial contributions (see its Rules linked below).

Part IV of the Convention, adopted by the UNESCO General Conference at its seventeenth session Paris, 16 November 1972, provides for the creation of a Fund for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.