Nineteenth meeting of the Animals Committee
Geneva (Switzerland), 18–21 August 2003
Provisional agenda and documents
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1. |
Opening of the meeting |
No document |
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2. |
Adoption of the Rules of Procedure |
AC19 Doc. 2 (Rev. 1) |
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3. |
Adoption of the Agenda and Working Programme | |||
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3.1 | Agenda |
AC19 Doc. 3.1 (Rev. 9) |
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3.2 | Working Programme |
AC19 Doc. 3.2 (Rev. 2) |
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4. |
Admission of observers |
AC19 Doc. 4 (Rev. 1) |
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5. |
Regional reports | No document | ||
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5.1 | Africa | AC19 Doc. 5.1 | |
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5.2 | Asia | AC19 Doc. 5.2 | |
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5.3 | Central and South America and the Caribbean | No document | |
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5.4 | Europe | AC19 Doc. 5.4 | |
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5.5 | North America | AC19 Doc. 5.5 | |
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5.6 | Oceania | AC19 Doc. 5.6 | |
6. |
Strategic planning | |||
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6.1 | Implementation of the CITES Strategic Vision |
AC19 Doc. 6.1 |
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6.2 | Decisions directed to the Animals Committee |
AC19 Doc. 6.2 |
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6.3 | Establishment of Animals Committee priorities |
AC19 Doc. 6.3 |
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7. | Report on the 49th meeting of the Standing Committee | |||
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7.1 | Working Group on Technical Implementation Issues |
AC19 Doc. 7.1 |
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7.2 | Export Quota Working Group |
AC19 Doc. 7.2 |
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8. |
Review of Significant Trade in specimens of Appendix-II species (Resolution Conf. 12.8 and Decision 12.75) | |||
8.1 | Introduction to Resolution Conf. 12.8 | AC19 Doc. 8.1 | ||
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8.2 | Review of the implementation of recommendations |
AC19 Doc. 8.2 |
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8.3 | Progress on the implementation of the Review of Significant Trade (Phases IV and V) | AC19 Doc. 8.3 (Rev. 1) | ||
8.4 | Progress on the first country-based Significant Trade Review |
AC19 Doc. 8.4 |
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8.5 | Evaluation of the Review of Significant Trade | AC19 Doc. 8.5 | ||
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8.6 | Conservation of Saiga tatarica | AC19 Doc. 8.6 | |
9. |
Review of the criteria for amendment of Appendices I and II (Decision 12.97) | AC19 Doc. 9 | ||
10. |
Periodic review of animal taxa in the Appendices [Resolution Conf. 11.1 (Rev. CoP12) and Decision 12.96] |
AC19 Doc. 10 | ||
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10.1 | Periodic review of animal and plant taxa in the Appendices [Resolution Conf. 11.1 (Rev.), Decision 12.96 and document SC49 Doc. 20.1] | AC19 Doc. 10.1 | |
11. |
Registration and monitoring of operations breeding Appendix-I animal species for commercial purposes | |||
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11.1 | Process for registering operations (Resolution Conf. 12.10 and Decision 12.78) | AC19 Doc. 11.1 | |
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11.2 | Relationship between ex situ production and in situ conservation [Decision 11.102 (Rev. CoP12)] | AC19 Doc. 11.2 | |
12. Transport of live animals (Resolution Conf. 10.21 and Decisions 12.85-12.86) |
AC19 Doc. 12 | |||
13. Trade in hard corals [Resolution Conf. 11.10 (Rev. CoP12) and Decision 12.62] |
AC19 Doc. 13 | |||
14. |
Control of captive breeding, ranching and wild harvest production systems for Appendix-II species | AC19 Doc. 14 | ||
15. |
Conservation of and trade in tortoises and freshwater turtles [Resolution Conf. 11.9 (Rev. CoP12) and Decisions 12.41, 12.42 and 12.43] | |||
15.1 | Addressing recommendations from the Kunming workshop | AC19 Doc. 15.1 |
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15.2 | Development of mid- and long-term conservation measures for freshwater tortoises and turtles | AC19 Doc. 15.2 (Rev. 1) | ||
15.3 | Implementation of Resolution Conf. 11.9 (Rev. CoP12) and Decisions 12.41, 12.42 and 12.43 |
AC19 Doc. 15.3 (Rev. 1) | ||
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Conservation of seahorses and other members of the family Syngnathidae (Decision 12.54) | |||
16.1 | Implementation of the Appendix-II listing for Hippocampus spp. |
AC19 Doc. 16.1 |
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16.2 | Universal minimum size limit for seahorses | AC19 Doc. 16.2 | |
17. |
Conservation of and trade in sea cucumbers in the families Holothuridae and Stichopodidae (Decision 12.60) | AC19 Doc. 17 | ||
18. |
Biological and trade status of sharks (Resolution Conf. 12.6 and Decision 12.47) | |||
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18.1 | Progress made by the United States of America in developing and implementing the IPOA-sharks |
AC19 Doc. 18.1 |
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18.2 | Implementation of Resolution Conf. 12.6 and Decision 12.47 |
AC19 Doc. 18.2 |
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18.3 | Progress made by Japan in developing and implementing the IPOA-sharks |
AC19 Doc. 18.3 Annex 1 |
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19. Trade in alien species (Decision 11.100) |
No document | |||
20. Standard taxonomy and nomenclature | ||||
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20.1 | The role of standard taxonomy and nomenclature references and the amendment of the Appendices as a consequence of nomenclatural changes |
AC19 Doc. 20.1 | |
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20.2 | Standard nomenclature for birds | AC19 Doc. 20.2 | |
21. Any other business |
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21.1 | Research projects | AC19 Doc. 21.1 | ||
21.2 | Trade with States not party to the Convention | No document | ||
21.3 | Progress report on identification manuals | No document | ||
22. Closing remarks |
No document |
Information documents
Document title | Document No. | Document | |
1. |
French translation of Annexes 1 and 2 of document AC19 Doc. 15.2 (Rev. 1) |
AC19 Inf. 1 |
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2. | Spanish translation of Annexes 1 and 2 of document AC19 Doc. 15.2 (Rev. 1) |
AC19 Inf. 2
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3. | Review of Appendices - crocodile ranching operations |
AC19 Inf. 3
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4. |
Study on transport losses of CITES-protected and non-protected animal species |
AC19 Inf. 4 |
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5. | Relationship between ex situ production and in situ conservation |
AC19 Inf. 5
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6. | Control of captive breeding, ranching and wild harvest production systems for Appendix-II species |
AC19 Inf. 6
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7. | Progress made by the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Shark Specialist Group in assessing the threatened status of sharks and related taxa |
AC19 Inf. 7
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8. | Venue of the 21st meeting of the Animals Committee in 2005 |
AC19 Inf. 8
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