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The method for establishing the scope of the application had to be submitted to the French World Heritage Committee (CFPM), based on a huge study area covering 26 municipalities and over 500 megalithic monuments: standing stones, dolmens, tumuli, stone rows, cromlechs, and more.
The CFPM praised the significant progress in the work to establish the scope of the Property, and decided in favour of pursuing the application for inclusion on the World Heritage List.
It made the following recommendations to the project association:
- launching a landscape study as soon as possible;
- taking into account natural environments; protecting these may help with future management of the Property;
- establishing a cartographic atlas;
- pursuing and further strengthening teamwork;
- pursuing the installation of protective measures and development of the management plan, coordinating resources such as the French Heritage Code, French Environmental Code, and French Planning Code.
Work on establishing the scope of the application will be continued this year. Work on the management plan, the third and final stage of the application project, is due to begin at the end of 2020: this involves formalising the goals and actions of the territory to protect and enhance these works of architecture erected by men and women in the Neolithic Era (7000-4500 BCE), and pass them on to future generations.