Brief synthesisThe Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin corresponds to the French part of the northwest European coal seam. Criterion (iv): The living and evolving mining landscapes of the Nord-Pas de Calais Basin provide an eminent example of the large-scale development of coal mining in the 19th and 20th centuries, by large industrial companies and their considerable workforce. Criterion (vi): The social, technical and cultural events associated with the history of the Mining Basin had international repercussions. They are testimony to the evolution of the social and technical conditions of coal extraction. All these provisions have been compiled in a Unified Mining Basin Heritage Charter that governs all the property’s public and private partners.