¹ Article 16: “The States Parties to this Convention shall in their periodic reports submitted to the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on dates and in a manner to be determined by it, give information on the legislative and administrative provisions which they have adopted and other action which they have taken for the application of this Convention, together with details of the experience acquired in this field.”

² Article 29(1): “The States Parties to this Convention shall, in the reports which they submit to the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on dates and in a manner to be determined by it, give information on the legislative and administrative provisions which they have adopted and other action which they have taken for the application of this Convention, together with details of the experience acquired in this field.”

³ Article 16 – 1. Member States shall submit to the General Conference special reports on the action they have taken to give effect to conventions or recommendations adopted by the General Conference. Initial reports relating to any convention or recommendation adopted shall be transmitted no less than two months prior to the first ordinary session of the General Conference following that at which such recommendation or convention was adopted. The General Conference may further request Member States to submit, by prescribed dates, additional reports giving such further information as may be necessary. - Basic Texts (2000 edition), p. 115.

⁴ The 1970 report contains only a copy of the list of States party to the Convention.

⁵ Current Article 26(2) – See Records of the Conference convened by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization held at The Hague from 21 April to 14 May 1954, published by the Government of the Netherlands, Staatsdrukkerij-en uitgeverij-bedrijft, The Hague, 1961, p. 387.Google Scholar

⁶ Ibid., pp. 313–314.

⁷ Ibid., p. 192.

⁸ Information on the Implementation of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, The Hague 1954Google Scholar, 1995 Reports, UNESCO, Ref. CLT-95/WS/13, Paris, December 1995.

⁹ Reports from Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Croatia, Egypt, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Holy See, Hungary, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand and Ukraine. See pp. 15–48 of the 1995 Report.

¹⁰ Reports for 2000 still in preparation; data as at 25 October 2000.

¹¹ Boylan, Patrick J., Review of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (The Hague Convention of 1954)Google Scholar, Doc. UNESCO, Ref. CLT-93/WS/12, Paris, 1993, pp. 89–90.

¹² Meeting of Legal Experts on the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (The Hague, 1954), UNESCO, Ref. CLT-83/CONF-641/1, Paris, p. 9.Google Scholar

¹³ Address by H.E. Nagendra Singh, Judge at the International Court of Justice, at the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Hague Convention, in UNESCO, Information on the Implementation of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, The Hague 1954Google Scholar, 1984 Reports, Ref. CLT/MD/3, Paris, December 1984, p. 15.

¹⁴ Op. cit. (note 10), p. 90

¹⁵ Information on the Implementation of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, The Hague 1954, 1989 Reports, UNESCO, Ref. CC/MD-11, Paris, 12 1989, p. 39.Google Scholar

¹⁶ The resolution of the fourth meeting of States party to the Convention (Paris, 18 November 1999) invites, among other things, “States party to the Convention to provide the Secretariat with their national reports on the implementation of the Convention under Article 26(2) within the time allowed”.

¹⁷ Appendix to Memorandum of UNESCO's Standard-Setting Activity, UNESCO, Ref. 27 C/INF.6, Paris, 27 09 1993, p. 4.Google Scholar

¹⁸ Ibid., pp. 4–5.

¹⁹ The questionnaire system has already been used in the past. However, except for the 1962 report it has not been fully successful.

²⁰ See Annex.