%0 Book Section
%9 Conference Volume
%A Clément, Etienne
%A ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Legal, Administrative and Financial Issues (ICLAFI),
%A ICOMOS International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH),
%B The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage: how do we make it work?
%C Amersfoort, The Netherlands
%D 2017
%F icomos:2186
%I Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
%K Underwater cultural heritage
%K Legal framework
%K International standards
%K International Conventions
%K Historic surveys
%K Underwater archaeology
%K Conference
%K Proceedings
%K Protection of underwater cultural heritage
%K International cooperation
%K Shipwrecks
%P 5-12
%T The elaboration of the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage
%U http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/2186/
%X Paper presented during the ICLAFI – ICUCH Symposium, 29th June – 1st July 2017, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Amersfoort, The Netherlands    The protection of the underwater cultural heritage, in particular ancient shipwrecks laying on the seabed under various jurisdictions, is by nature an international issue. It is therefore natural that the United Nations, in particular UNESCO as the specialized agency with the UN mandate for cultural heritage, has looked into the matter and adopted in 2001 the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, one of the seven UNESCO Conventions in the area of culture.