On the question of evaluation and protection, the Committee decided :

• to encourage ICOMOS and IUCN to be as strict as possible in their evaluations and to request the Secretariat to support the NGOs to this end ;
• to encourage informal discussions between the State Party, the Secretariat and the NGO to advise the State Party on a nomination wherever it seems useful ;
• to request the Secretariat to distribute as soon as possible after the Bureau Meeting the statement of justification on each property recommended for inclusion on the World Heritage List ;
• to devote more time at the beginning of each session to a general discussion prior to the examination of individual proposals for inscription in the List ;
• to encourage the presentation by the NGO concerned of slides on the property recommended for the List during the preliminary discussions ;
• to ask States Parties to provide slides, other graphic material and suitable maps.