Twenty-first meeting of the Plants Committee

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Veracruz (Mexico), 2-8 May 2014

Provisional agenda and documents

(all documents are provided in PDF format)

Agenda item
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1. Opening of the meeting
No document
 
Administrative matters
2. Election of the Chair and Vice-chair
No document
  
3. Rules of Procedure PC21 Doc. 3 19/03/2014
4. Adoption of the agenda and working programme    
  4.1 Agenda PC21 Doc. 4.1 19/03/2014
  4.2 Working programme PC21 Doc. 4.2 19/03/2014
5. Admission of observers PC21 Doc. 5 05/05/2014
Strategic matters
6. Plants CommitteeStrategic planning for 2013-2016 (CoP16-CoP17)    
  6.1 CITES Strategic Vision: 2008-2020 (Resolution Conf. 16.3) PC21 Doc. 6.1 27/03/2014
  6.2 Resolutions and Decisions directed to the Plants Committee PC21 Doc. 6.2 19/03/2014
  6.3 Plants Committee workplan PC21 Doc. 6.3 24/03/2014
7.
Support to Standing Committee work on bushmeat and annotations 
[Decisions 14.148 (Rev. Cop16),16.149 and 16.162]*
    
  7.1 Report of the Secretariat* AC27/PC21
Doc. 7.1		 20/03/2014
  7.2 Annotations for species listed in the CITES Appendixes: report of the interim Standing Committee working group* AC27/PC21 
Doc. 7.2		 18/03/2014
8. Cooperation with other biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)    
  8.1 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) (Decision 16.15)* AC27/PC21 
Doc. 8.1		 18/03/2014
  8.2 Cooperation with the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Resolution Conf. 16.5) PC21 Doc. 8.2 24/03/2014
9. Capacity building    
  9.1 Report of the Secretariat* AC27/PC21 
Doc. 9.1		 18/03/2014
  9.2 Guidance on making non-detriment findings for perennial plants  PC21 Doc. 9.2 19/03/2014
Interpretation and implementation of the Convention
  Amendment of the Appendices    
10. Extinct or possibly extinct species (Decision 16.164)* AC27/PC21
Doc. 10		 18/03/2014
  Compliance and enforcement    
11. Review of reporting requirements (Decision 16.45)* AC27/PC21
Doc. 11		 18/03/2014
12. Review of Significant Trade in specimens of Appendix-II species [Resolution Conf. 12.8 (Rev. CoP13)]    
  12.1 Evaluation of the Review of Significant Trade
[Decision 13.67 (Rev. CoP14)]*		 AC27/PC21 
Doc. 12.1		 21/03/2014
  12.2 Overview of the species-based Review of Significant Trade PC21 Doc. 12.2
(Rev. 1)		 20/03/2014
01/05/2014
  12.3 Species selected following CoP15 PC21 Doc. 12.3 21/03/2014
  12.4 Selection of species for trade reviews following CoP16 PC21 Doc. 12.4 21/03/2014
  Trade controls and marking    
13. Transport of live specimens [Resolution Conf. 10.21 (Rev. CoP16)]* AC27/PC21 Doc. 13 24/03/2014
14. Review of identification and guidance material (Decision 16.59)* 21/03/2014
  14.1 Agarwood glossary (Decision 16.155) PC21 Doc. 14.1
(Rev. 1)		 25/03/2014
05/05/2014
(Information added by Indonesia)
15. Development of a timber identification directory for CITES-listed species  PC21 Doc. 15 27/03/2014
  Species trade and conservation    
16.
Reporting on trade in artificially propagated plants 
[Decision 14.40 (Rev. CoP16)]
 PC21 Doc. 16 19/03/2014
17. Galanthus woronowii in trade from the wild and the development of artificial propagation in Georgia PC21 Doc. 17 24/03/2014
18. Trees    
  18.1 Progress report on the joint CITES-ITTO tree species programme (Resolution Conf. 14.4) PC21 Doc. 18.1 19/03/2014
  18.2 Working Group on Neotropical Tree Species (Decision 16.159)    
    18.2.1  Membership and Terms of Reference of the Working Group PC21 Doc.18.2.1 27/03/2014
    18.2.2  Election of the Chair and Vice-Chair No document  
  18.3 Malagasy ebonies (Diospyros spp.) and Malagasy rosewoods (Dalbergia spp.) (Decision 16.152)    
    18.3.1  Report of the Secretariat PC21 Doc.18.3.1 19/03/2014
    18.3.2  Report of Madagascar on progress on implementing the Action plan for "Diospyros spp. and Dalbergia spp." PC21 Doc.18.3.2 27/03/2014
  18.4 East African sandalwood (Osyris lanceolata) (Decisions 16.153 and 16.154)    
  18.5 Agarwood-producing taxa (Aquilaria spp. and Gyrinops spp.) [Resolution Conf. 16.10; Decisions 16.156, 16.157 and 15.95 (Rev. CoP16)] PC21 Doc. 18.5 20/03/2014
19. Periodic Review of species included in Appendices I and II [Resolution Conf. 14.8 (Rev. CoP16)]    
  19.1 Overview of species under review PC21 Doc. 19.1 20/03/2014
  19.2 Selection of species for the Periodic Review PC21 Doc. 19.2 24/03/2014
  19.3 Species review    
    19.3.1  Periodic review of Pachypodium brevicaule – Report of Madagascar PC21 Doc. 19.3.1 10/04/2014
    19.3.2  Periodic review of Tillandsia mauryana – Report of Mexico PC21 Doc. 19.3.2 28/03/2014
    19.3.3 Progress report on the periodic review of the genus Sclerocactus and Lewisia serrata – Report of the USA PC21 Doc. 19.3.3 21/03/2014
20. Standard nomenclature [Resolution Conf. 12.11 (Rev. CoP16)]    
  20.1 Report of the specialist on botanical nomenclature PC21 Doc. 20.1 20/03/2014
  20.2 Revised nomenclature for Aloe – Report of South Africa PC21 Doc. 20.2 21/03/2014
Regional matters
21. Regional reports    
  21.1 Africa PC21 Doc. 21.1 05.05.2014
(as received, 
formatted)
  21.2 Asia PC21 Doc. 21.2
(Rev.1)		 06.05.2014
07/05/2014
(Additional information submitted by the author.)
  21.3 Central and South America and the Caribbean PC21 Doc. 21.3 04/04/2014
  21.4 Europe PC21 Doc. 21.4 20/03/2014
  21.5 North America PC21 Doc. 21.5 28/04/2014
  21.6 Oceania1 PC21 Doc. 21.6  23.04.2014
(as received, 
formatted)
Concluding items
22. Any other business No document  
23. Time and venue of the 22nd meeting of the Plants Committee No document  
24. Closing remarks No document  


* This item will be discussed during a joint session with the Animals Committee.
1 This document has not been translated and is provided in the language in which it was submitted.

 

Information documents

Title Document Agenda item Language
1. CITES NDF Guidance for Perennial Plants (submitted by Germany) 9 English
2. Net exports of Appendix II plant species, 2007-2012 raw data (submitted by UNEP-WCMC) PC21 Inf. 2 (Rev. 1) (pdf)
PC21 Inf. 2 (Rev. 1) (Excel)		 12 English
3. Emerging trade in artificially propagated plans (submitted by the Secretariat) PC21 Inf. 3 16 English
4. Non-detriment findings for timber imports from Central Africa: stepwise approach of collecting documentation on carrying capacity of Pericopsis populations (submitted by Belgium) PC21 Inf. 4 9.2 English
5. Distinguishing wild from cultivated agarwood (Aguilaria spp.) using direct analysis in real time and time-of-fight mass spectrometry (submitted by the United States of America) PC21 Inf. 5 18.5 English
6. Evaluating agarwood products for 2-(2-phenylethyl) chromones using direct analysis in real time and time-of-fight mass spectrometry (submitted by the United States of America) PC21 Inf. 6 18.5 English
7. Analysis of select Dalbergia and trade timber using direct analysis in real time and time-of-fight mass spectrometry for CITES enforcement (submitted by the United States of America) PC21 Inf. 7 18.3 English
8. CITES Cactus Checklist - opuntia subgenus opuntia draft checklist (submitted by the nomenclature specialist of the Plants Committee) PC21 Inf. 8 20 English
9. Traceability Systems Supporting a Sustainable International Trade in Endangered Species: Example of a System Used in the Timber Sector (submitted by Germany) PC21 Inf. 9 18.3 English
10. East African Sandalwood (Osyris lanceolata)(Decisions 16.153 and16.154).
(submitted by the PC representative for Africa)		 PC21 Inf. 10 18.4 English
11. Primer on Importing & Exporting CITES-Listed Species Used in the United States in Dietary Supplements, Traditional Herbal Medicines, and Homeopathic Products (submitted by the United States of America) PC21 Inf. 11 20 English