| Article 8 — Working methods of the Committee 1 | Thereafter, for each State Party that ratifies, accepts, approves or accedes to an amendment, the said amendment shall enter into force three months after the date of deposit by that State Party of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession |
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| Article 3 — Relationship to other international instruments Nothing in this Convention may be interpreted as: a altering the status or diminishing the level of protection under the 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of World Heritage properties with which an item of the intangible cultural heritage is directly associated; or b affecting the rights and obligations of States Parties deriving from any international instrument relating to intellectual property rights or to the use of biological and ecological resources to which they are parties | Report of the Director-General on the Activities of the Organization March—November 1955 |
The term of office of any such State which is already a Member of the Committee shall come to an end at the time of the elections provided for in Article 6 of this Convention.
23| The election of States Members of the Committee shall obey the principles of equitable geographical representation and rotation | In order to reach a decision, the Committee shall undertake such studies and consultations as it deems necessary |
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| It shall also elect as many States Members of the Committee as required to fill vacancies | When each State Party periodically submits its report to the Committee, in accordance with Article 29, it shall provide relevant information on such inventories |
Article 37 — Depositary functions The Director-General of UNESCO, as the Depositary of this Convention, shall inform the States Members of the Organization, the States not Members of the Organization referred to in Article 33, as well as the United Nations, of the deposit of all the instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession provided for in Articles 32 and 33, and of the denunciations provided for in Article 36.
27| Amendments shall enter into force, but solely with respect to the States Parties that have ratified, accepted, approved or acceded to them, three months after the deposit of the instruments referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article by two-thirds of the States Parties | The Haiti pilot project: phase one, 1947—1949 |
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| Article 5 — Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 1 | These amendments shall enter into force at the time they are adopted |
Article 20 — Purposes of international assistance International assistance may be granted for the following purposes: a the safeguarding of the heritage inscribed on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding; b the preparation of inventories in the sense of Articles 11 and 12; c support for programmes, projects and activities carried out at the national, subregional and regional levels aimed at the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage; d any other purpose the Committee may deem necessary.
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