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II. Project design
 © T. Maarleveld. Research operations at Nørre Bjert, Denmark.
At Nørre Bjert the presence of mesolithic culture layers in the coastal was to be established through coring and a small trial trench by a team of the Viking Ship Museum and the National Museum of Denmark in January 2006.
The first set of rules addresses the general principles that apply to all activities direc- ted at underwater cultural heritage. They therefore place such activities in the wider context of heritage management and protection. The second set, consisting of Rules 9 - 13, deals with the actual planning of activities. These Rules address the Project Design for such activities and all the aspects that it should include. Many of these aspects are further elaborated in the subsequent rules and chapters.
Function, submission and availability of the project design
Rule 9. Prior to any activity directed at underwater cultural heritage, a project design for the activity shall be developed and submitted to the competent authorities for authorization and appropriate peer review.
Project management should be the result of a planning phase during which the objectives of the project, methodology, strategies and resources are defined. Any intervention on underwater cultural heritage should be preceded by the draft of a Project Design. Ideally, the project design should be integrated into the long-term site management plan.
A project design is a plan of all activities of a project, within a defined time frame for implementing these activities by identifying all relevant information about a proposal that may impact on a site. It is produced to guide the team, the decisions of the project director and the competent authorities. It does so by identifying all relevant information about a proposal that may impact on a site.
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