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Intellectual Cultural Heritage
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To facilitate Thailand's ICH management in
systematic and continuous manner, to promote
an awareness in the communities of the value
and identity of thei r ICH, to br ing about the
pride in their ICH, and to encourage the younger
generations to learn and perpetuate the ICH in their
communities, the DCP has therefore laid down the
operational directives and regulated the procedure
for the designation of Thailand’s ICH as follows:
1. The DCP shall appoint the ICH Committees of
Experts in the following domains: performing arts,
traditional craftsmanship, folk literature; folk sports,
games and martial arts;
2. The ICH Committees of Experts shall prepare
and revise the criteria for national ICH designation;
3. The ICH Committees of Experts shall nominate
the items to be designated as the national ICH;
4. The ICH Committees of Experts shall prepare
key information relevant to each ICH item to be
designated as the national ICH;
5. The DCP shall appoint the Executive Committee
of Experts for the ICH Designation;
Operational Directives for Thailand’s Intellectual Cultural Heritage Designation
6. The Executive Committee of Experts for
the ICH Designation shall approve the list of items
to be designated as the national ICH;
7. The ICH Committees of Experts shall consider
the result of public hearings on the list of items to be
designated as the national ICH;
8. The Executive Committee of Experts for the
ICH Designation shall endorse the result of national
ICH designation;
9. The Minis ter of Culture shall sign the
announcement of the national ICH designation;
10. The DCP shall organize the announcement
ceremony of the national ICH designation;
11. The DCP shall publicize the information
through the printed and video media;
12. The DCP shall promote and support the
transmission and perpetuation of the designated
national ICH.