Toshiyuki Kono, Professor of Law at Kyushu University, Japan; the chairman of the Legal Committee of the 34th General Conference of UNESCO. He has published extensively on International Law and Culture, including Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property – Communities, Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development, (Intersensia, 2009).

• General Report (Toshiyuki Kono and Stefan Wrbka);Part I – International Legal FrameworkPart II – National Legal FrameworksStatus – of National Ratification/Acceptance of International Tools Outlined in Part 1 of the this PaperCanada (Robert K. Paterson);Croatia (Igor Gliha and Tatjana Josipović);Czech Republic (Pavel Šturma);Denmark (Ditlev Tamm and Anne Østrup);France (Marie Cornu);Germany (Kurt Siehr);Italy (Federico Lenzerini);Japan (Toshiyuki Kono);Mexico (Jorge Sánchez Cordero);Netherlands (Katja Lubina);New Zealand / Aotearoa (Paul Myburgh);Spain (Sofía de Salas);Switzerland (Eva Maria Belser, Eva Rüegg and Eva Molinari);Taiwan (Ming-Yan Shieh and Chung-Hsi Lee);United States (James A.R. Nafziger);Index.

Toshiyuki Kono, Professor of Law at Kyushu University, Japan; the chairman of the Legal Committee of the 34th General Conference of UNESCO. He has published extensively on International Law and Culture, including Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property – Communities, Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development, (Intersensia, 2009).

• General Report (Toshiyuki Kono and Stefan Wrbka);Part I – International Legal FrameworkPart II – National Legal FrameworksStatus – of National Ratification/Acceptance of International Tools Outlined in Part 1 of the this PaperCanada (Robert K. Paterson);Croatia (Igor Gliha and Tatjana Josipović);Czech Republic (Pavel Šturma);Denmark (Ditlev Tamm and Anne Østrup);France (Marie Cornu);Germany (Kurt Siehr);Italy (Federico Lenzerini);Japan (Toshiyuki Kono);Mexico (Jorge Sánchez Cordero);Netherlands (Katja Lubina);New Zealand / Aotearoa (Paul Myburgh);Spain (Sofía de Salas);Switzerland (Eva Maria Belser, Eva Rüegg and Eva Molinari);Taiwan (Ming-Yan Shieh and Chung-Hsi Lee);United States (James A.R. Nafziger);Index.

Toshiyuki Kono, Professor of Law at Kyushu University, Japan; the chairman of the Legal Committee of the 34th General Conference of UNESCO. He has published extensively on International Law and Culture, including Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property – Communities, Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development, (Intersensia, 2009).

• General Report (Toshiyuki Kono and Stefan Wrbka);Part I – International Legal FrameworkPart II – National Legal FrameworksStatus – of National Ratification/Acceptance of International Tools Outlined in Part 1 of the this PaperCanada (Robert K. Paterson);Croatia (Igor Gliha and Tatjana Josipović);Czech Republic (Pavel Šturma);Denmark (Ditlev Tamm and Anne Østrup);France (Marie Cornu);Germany (Kurt Siehr);Italy (Federico Lenzerini);Japan (Toshiyuki Kono);Mexico (Jorge Sánchez Cordero);Netherlands (Katja Lubina);New Zealand / Aotearoa (Paul Myburgh);Spain (Sofía de Salas);Switzerland (Eva Maria Belser, Eva Rüegg and Eva Molinari);Taiwan (Ming-Yan Shieh and Chung-Hsi Lee);United States (James A.R. Nafziger);Index.