The Committee and its Bodies 1st session: Interpretation of the criteria for inscription on the lists and the register of the Convention
Chaired by Chérif Khaznadar

• Knowledge for safeguarding intangible heritage and creativity by Lourdes Arizpe, President, Technical Committee, National Commission
on intangible cultural heritage of Mexico; the Chair of the Commission on Intangible Cultural Heritage of the International
Social Science Council (Mexico)
• The Committee and its Bodies by Rieks Smeets, Consultant; Former chief of the ICH section of UNESCO (the Netherlands)
• The national inventory and the fifth criterion of two lists of intangible cultural heritage by Öcal Oguz, Professor, Gazi University
(Turkey)
• Reflections on the criteria for inclusion on both lists of intangible cultural heritage by Ahmed Skounti, Anthropologist, Institut National
des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine (INSAP) (Morocco)