A non-member State’s practice on the incorporation of the
UCH Convention: Taiwan’s experience

A non-member State’s practice on the incorporation of the
UCH Convention: Taiwan’s experience

The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) adopted the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage in 2001 which entered into force in 2009. In order to preserve, protect and manage underwater cultural heritage, State Parties should preserve underwater cultural heritage and take actions accordingly. The R.O.C. has followed the developments afore mentioned since 1999, and a specific legislation “Underwater Cultural Heritage Preservation Act” was enacted and entered into force in 2015 while facing various challenges along the way, even the R.O.C. is not a member of the UNESCO nor a Party to the Convention. The emergence, evolution, and practice in terms of the incorporation of the Convention into domestic legislation warrants the necessity of in-depth studies and further theorization since such experience relates to the success or failure of policies with respect to the incorporation of international conventions into domestic legislation. This paper provides an analytical assessment on the approaches that the R.O.C. incorporated the Convention through applying or modifying relevant theories regarding the incorporation of international conventions into domestic laws, and suggestions on confronting similar challenges.

Pei-Fu Wu

The Museum of Underwater Archaeology

2017

Pei-Fu Wu

English

Pei-Fu Wu