United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: Motion
Dáil Éireann was asked to approve the UNESCO underwater cultural heritage convention and two declarations extending its rules to inland waters and specifying report transmission.
I move:
That Dáil Éireann:
(1) approves the terms of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage done at Paris on the 6th November, 2001, a copy of which was laid before Dáil Éireann on 13th August, 2025,
(2) approves the making of a Declaration under Article 28 of the said Convention that the Rules of the Annex to the Convention will apply to activities directed at Underwater Cultural Heritage carried out in non-maritime inland waters, and
(3) approves the making of a Declaration under Article 9(2) of the Convention that the reports referred to in Article 9(1)(b) shall be transmitted by the State in accordance with Article 9(1)(b)(ii).