PC16: Agenda and documents

Sixteenth meeting of the Plants Committee

Lima (Peru), 3-8 July 2006

Agenda and documents

(all documents are provided in PDF format)

Agenda item				Document
1.	Opening of the meeting			No document
2.	Adoption of the Rules of Procedure
	2.1	Current Rules of Procedure		PC16 Doc. 2.1
	2.2	Proposed amendments		PC16 Doc. 2.2
3.	Adoption of the agenda and working programme
	3.1	Agenda		PC16 Doc. 3.1 (Rev.2)
	3.2	Working programme		PC16 Doc. 3.2 (Rev.1)
4.	Admission of observers			PC16 Doc. 4
5.	Regional reports
	5.1	Africa		PC16 Doc. 5.1
	5.2	Asia		PC16 Doc. 5.2
	5.3	Central and South America and the Caribbean		PC16 Doc. 5.3 (Rev. 1) (Spanish only)
	5.4	Europe		PC16 Doc. 5.4
	5.5	North America		PC16 Doc. 5.5
	5.6	Oceania		PC16 Doc. 5.6
6.	Strategic Vision and Action Plan until 2013			PC16 Doc. 6
7.	Review of the scientific committees			PC16 Doc. 7 (Rev.1)
8.	Regional communication
	8.1	Review of the conditions under which members and alternate members perform their duties		PC16 Doc. 8.1
	8.2	Manual for regional representatives		PC16 Doc. 8.2
9.	Export Quota Working Group			PC16 Doc. 9
10.	Review of Significant Trade in specimens of Appendix-II species
	10.1	Progress in the implementation of the species-based Review of Significant Trade – overview		PC16 Doc. 10.1
	10.2	Species selected following CoP11 and CoP12		PC16 Doc. 10.2
		10.2.1	Evaluation of the Harvest of Prunus africana Bark on the Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea): Guidelines for a Management Plan	PC16 Doc. 10.2.1
	10.3	Species selected following CoP13		PC16 Doc. 10.3
	10.4	Progress on the country-based Review of Significant Trade in Madagascar		PC16 Doc. 10.4
	10.5	Asian medicinal species		PC16 Doc. 10.5
11.	Periodic review of plant species included in the CITES Appendices			PC16 Doc. 11 (Rev.1)
12.	Production systems for specimens of CITES-listed species
	12.1	Review of production systems		PC16 Doc. 12.1
	12.2	Review of global crocodile ranching programmes		PC16 Doc. 12.2
13.	Synergy between CITES and CBD
	13.1	Addis Ababa Principles and Guidelines for the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity		PC16 Doc. 13.1
	13.2	Global Strategy for Plant Conservation and links with the Convention on Biological Diversity		PC16 Doc. 13.2
14.	Trade in alien invasive species			PC16 Doc. 14
15.	Transport of live specimens
	15.1.	Review of Resolution Conf. 10.21 on Transport of live animals		PC16 Doc. 15.1
16.	Harpagophytum spp.			PC16 Doc. 16
17.	Annotations for species in Appendices II and III
	17.1	Medicinal plants		PC16 Doc. 17.1
	17.2	Implementation of the annotation for Orchidaceae spp. included in Appendix II		PC16 Doc. 17.2
18.	Effects of implementing the revised definition of ‘artificially propagated'			PC16 Doc. 18
19.	Tree species
	19.1	Bigleaf Mahogany Working Group		PC16 Doc. 19.1
		19.1.1 Report of the third meeting of the Bigleaf Mahogany Working Group		PC16 Doc. 19.1.1
	19.2	Proposals to amend the Appendices for tree species		PC16 Doc. 19.2
	19.3	Standard procedure for the measurement of logs and sawn wood of timber species included in Appendices II and III		PC16 Doc. 19.3
20.	Implementation of the annotation for Hoodia spp.			PC16 Doc. 20
21.	Advice and guidance on proposals to amend the Appendices
	21.1	Use of annotations for plants in Appendix II and animals and plants in Appendix III		PC16 Doc. 21.1
	21.2	Proposals to amend the Appendices for possible consideration at CoP14		PC16 Doc. 21.2 (Rev.1)
22.	Progress report from the Co-Chairman of the Nomenclature Committee			PC16 Doc. 22
23.	Identification material
	23.1	Progress report on the Identification Manual		PC16 Doc. 23.1
	23.2	Interactive CD-ROM for macroscopic CITES timber identification		PC16 Doc. 23.2
24.	Preparation of the Chairman’s report for CoP14			No document
25.	Time and venue of the 17th meeting of the Plants Committee			No document
26.	Any other business
	2.6.1	Need for relevant information and a standardized procedure to evaluate the non-detrimental character of trade in timber species listed in Appendix II of CITES		No document
	2.6.2	Master's Course		No document
	2.6.3	Workshop for CITES Management and Scientific Authorities in Mexico		No document
	2.6.4	Implementation of Decisions 13.104 and 13.105		No document
27.	Closing remarks			No document

Information documents

Document title		Document	Language
1.	Final report of CITES-financed pilot project: Search for DNA markers to discriminate cultivated from wild gaharu (agarwood)	PC16 Inf. 1	English
2.	Periodic review of plant species included in the CITES Appendices	PC16 Inf. 2	English-Spanish
3.	El Pino del Cerro (Podocarpus parlatorei) como Modelo de Estudio para la Conservación, Ecología y Biogeografía de los Bosques Montanos Nublados de Yungas	PC16 Inf. 3	Spanish
4.	Strategies for the sustainable use and management of timber tree species subject to international trade: Mesoamerica	PC16 Inf. 4	English
5.	Report on the imports of Swietenia macrophylla by the United States of America: 1996-2005	PC16 Inf. 5	English
6.	Examen periódico de especies vegetales incluidas en los Apéndices de la CITES Evaluación del estatus del género Pereskiopsis y de Pereskia lychnidiflora (Cactaceae) en México dentro de los Apéndices de la CITES	PC16 Inf. 6: – Colour (6.8Mb) – Black & white (1.6Mb)	Spanish
7.	Review of Pereskia spp. and Quiabentia verticillata (Cactaceae) in Argentina	PC16 Inf. 7	English-Spanish
8.	The Aloes and Euphorbias of CITES Appendix I and the genus Pachypodium	PC16 Inf. 8	English
9.	International Standard for Sustainable Wild Collection of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ISSC-MAP)	PC16 Inf. 9	English
10.	Development of a molecular method to rapidly identify species of the genus Galanthus (Amaryllidaceae, CITES Appendix II)	PC16 Inf. 10	English
11.	Non-detrimental findings to the survival of Appendix-II species. Need for relevant information and a standardized procedure to evaluate the non-detrimental character of the trade in timber species listed in Appendix II of CITES	PC16 Inf. 11	English
12.	Review of trade in merbau (Intsia spp.) from major range States to Germany and the EU: A preliminary assessment	PC16 Inf. 12	English
13.	Irregularieites in Galanthus trade	PC16 Inf. 13	English