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Twentieth meeting of the Plants Committee

Dublin (Ireland), 22-30 March 2012

Agenda and documents

(all documents are provided in PDF format)

Agenda item
Documents
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Plants Committee matters
1. Opening of the meeting
No document
2. Rules of Procedure
01/02/12
3. Adoption of the agenda and working programme
  3.1 Agenda
01/03/12
  3.2 Working programme
06/02/12
01/03/12 (changes to items 8, 10, 11 & 21)
4.  Admission of observers
21/03/12
26/03/12
(addition of a national organization)
Items to be discussed with the Animals Committee
5. Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) (Decision 15.12)
27/01/12
Annex: Possible elements of the work programme of the platform
09/03/12
6. Climate change (Decision 15.15) – Report of the joint working group
25/01/12
7. Evaluation of the Review of Significant Trade [Decision 13.67 (Rev. CoP14)] (including Annexes 1-4)
06/02/12
Annex 5: Evaluation of the Review of Significant Trade: Case Studies (107 pages; 1.8 Mb)
06/02/12
8. Non-detriment findings
  8.1 Implementation of Decision 15.23 on Non-detriment findings: background and links with Decisions 15.24. 15.26 and 15.27
01/02/12
  8.2 Summary report based on the responses to Notifications to the Parties [No. 2009/023, paragraph 1. f) of No. 2010/027 and No. 2011/004]
25/01/12
  8.3 Progress reports from Parties (Decision 15.23)
01/02/12
  8.4 Draft guidance on the making of non-detriment findings
01/02/12
  8.5 Discussion paper on non-detriment findings
25/01/12
9.  Capacity-building programme for science-based establishment and implementation of voluntary national export quotas for Appendix-II species (Decision 12.91) – Report of the joint working group
25/01/12
10. Revision of Resolution 14.8 on Periodic Review of the Appendices
27/01/12
11. Transport of live specimens (Decision 15.59) – Report of the joint working group
24/01/12
Plants Committee matters
12. Strategic planning: Progress report on the work programme of the Plants Committee
01/02/12
13. Global Strategy for Plant Conservation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Decision 15.19) – Report of the working group
08/02/12
14. Review of Significant Trade in specimens of Appendix-II species
  14.1 Overview of the species-based Review of Significant Trade
01/02/12
  14.2 Species selected following CoP15
01/02/12
  14.3 Review of Significant Trade in Cistanche deserticola, Dioscorea deltoidea, Nardostachys grandiflora, Picrorhiza kurrooa, Pterocarpus santalinus, Rauvolfia serpentina and Taxus wallichiana
01/02/12
15. Non-detriment findings
  15.1 Timber species, medicinal plants and agarwood-producing species (Decisions 15.26 and 15.27) – Report of the working group
03/02/12
  15.2 Aniba rosaeodora [Decision 15.90, par. e)] – Report of Brazil
24/02/12
16. Periodic Review of plant species included in the CITES Appendices
  16.1 Overview
  16.1.1 Report of Mexico
23/02/12
  16.1.2 Report of the Secretariat
07/02/12
17/02/12 (republished with a correction to the title)
  16.2 Report of the working group
08/02/12
(as received) 17/02/12
(fully translated)
  16.3 Assessment of trade in epiphytic cacti and review of listing of Cactaceae spp. in Appendix II (Decision 15.89)
08/02/12
  Annex 1: Report of the working group
08/02/12
  Annex 2: Assessment of trade in epiphytic cacti and review of the listing of Cactaceae spp. in Appendix II
08/02/12
  16.4 Euphorbia spp. [Decision 14.131 (Rev. CoP15)]
08/02/12
  Annex 1: Report of the working group
09/02/12
  Annex 2: Assessment of trade in succulent Euphorbia spp. and review of their listing in Appendix II
08/02/12
17. Proposals for possible consideration at CoP16
  17.1 Proposals to amend the Appendices
  17.1.1 Madagascar (Decision 15.97)
08/02/12
  17.1.2  Annotations
    17.1.2.1 Overview [Decisions 15.31, 15.34, 14.133, 14.134 (Rev. CoP15), 14.149, 15.35 and 14.148 (Rev. CoP15)] – Report of the working group
01/02/12
23/02/12 (corrections to WG06 name and to cross-references in par. 12 & 14 )
    17.1.2.2 Preparation of clarification of and guidance on the meaning of "packaged and ready for retail trade" and other terms used in the Annotations – Report of the working group
08/02/12
    17.1.2.3 Cactaceae and Orchidaceae: review of annotations (Decision 15.34)
No document
    17.1.2.4 Tree species: annotations for species included in Appendices II and III [Decisions 14.149, 15.35 and 14.148 (Rev. CoP15)] – Report of the working group
01/02/12
    17.1.2.5 Aniba rosaeodora (Decision 15.90) – Report of Brazil
14/02/12
    17.1.2.6 Bulnesia sarmientoi (Decision 15.96) – Report of Argentina
14/02/12
    Annex: B. sarmientoi information sheet – Argentina
20/02/12
  17.1.3  Draft proposals from Parties to amend the Appendices
No document
  17.2 Other proposals
         17.2.1  Agarwood-producing taxa (Decision 15.94)
03/02/12
18. Reporting on trade in artificially propagated plants [Decisions 14.39 (Rev. CoP15) and 14.40 (Rev. CoP15)]
No document
19. Timber issues
  19.1 Progress report of the Working Group on the Bigleaf Mahogany and Other Neotropical Timber Species [Decisions 15.91, 15.92 and 14.146 (Rev. CoP15)] (including Annex 1)
24/02/12
  Annex 2: Cuarta Reunión del Grupo de Trabajo Sobre la Caoba de Hoja Ancha y otras Especies Maderables Neotropicales – Programe de trabajo (Spanish only)
07/02/12
  Annex 3: Matriz de Resultados del Plan de Acción para Cedrela odorata, Dalbergia retusa, Dalbergia granadillo y Dalbergia stevensonii, e información sobre los avances en el plan de acción para Swietenia macrophylla (Spanish only)
08/02/12 1
  19.2 Progress report on the joint CITES-ITTO timber programme
01/02/12
20. Nomenclatural matters
01/02/12
21. Progress report on the Identification Manual
01/02/12
22. Preparation of the Chair’s report for CoP16
24/02/12
23. Regional reports
  23.1 Africa
27/03/12 2
  23.2 Asia
09/02/12
(as received)
06/03/12
(formatted) 2
  23.3 Central and South America and the Caribbean
08/02/12
(as received)
06/03/12
(formatted)
27/03/12 2
  Annex 3: Resolución No. 160/2011
27/03/122
  23.4 Europe
08/02/12
(as received)
06/03/12
(formatted) 2
  23.5 North America
08/02/12
(as received)
06/03/12
(formatted) 2
  23.6 Oceania
24/02/12
(as received)
06/03/12
(formatted) 2
24. Time and venue of the 21st meeting of the Plants Committee
No document
25. Any other business
No document
26. Closing remarks
No document

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2 This document has not been translated and is provided in the language in which it was submitted.