SC53 - Agenda and documents
Fifty-third meeting of the Standing Committee
Geneva (Switzerland), 27 June - 1 July 2005
Agenda and documents
Agenda item | Document | |||
1. | Opening remarks by the Chairman | no document | ||
Strategic and administrative matters | ||||
2. | Agenda | |||
3. | Rules of Procedure | |||
4. | Credentials | no document | ||
5. | Admission of observers | |||
6. | Strategic Vision | |||
7. | Relationship with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) | |||
7.1 | Report of UNEP | |||
7.2 | Memorandum of Agreement between the Executive Director of UNEPand the Standing Committee | SC53 Doc. 7.2 (Rev.2) SC53 Doc. 7.2.1 | ||
7.3 | Proposal of the Executive Director to change the administrative arrangements for the Secretariat | SC53 Doc. 7.3 | ||
8. | Synergy between CITES and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) | SC53 Doc. 8 (Rev.1) SC53 Doc. 8.1 | ||
9. | Cooperation and synergy with the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) | SC53 Doc. 9 | ||
10. | Cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | SC53 Doc. 10 SC53 Doc. 10.1 | ||
11. | Financial matters | |||
11.1 | Report for 2004 | |||
11.2 | Estimated expenditures for 2005 | |||
11.3 | Cost-saving measures and staff-time allocations for the triennium 2006-2008 | SC53 Doc. 11.3 | ||
11.4 | Budget containment strategies | |||
11.5 | Shifting the financial burden to the trade (Israel) | |||
12. | Review of the scientific committees | |||
13. | Improving regional communication and representation | no document | ||
14. | Dialogue meetings | |||
Interpretation and implementation of the Convention | ||||
15. | Introduction from the sea | |||
16. | Trade in Appendix-I species | |||
| SC53 Doc. 16.1 | ||||
17. | Illegal trade in tigers (United States of America) | |||
18. | Conservation of and trade in great apes | |||
19. | Conservation of and trade in African and Asian rhinoceroses | |||
20. | African elephant | |||
20.1 | Control of trade in African elephant ivory | |||
20.2 | Report of the MIKE and ETIS Sub-group | |||
20.3 | Short-term funding of MIKE | |||
21. | Conservation of and control of trade in the Tibetan antelope | |||
22. | Trade in falcons for falconry | |||
23. | Illegal trade in ramin | |||
24. | Export quotas | |||
24.1 | Management of annual export quotas | |||
24.2 | Zero export quotas (Mexico) | |||
25. | Review of Significant Trade | |||
26. | Electronic permitting | |||
27. | Personal and household effects | |||
28. | Economic incentives | |||
29. | Relationship between ex situ production and in situ conservation | |||
30. | Guidelines for compliance with the Convention | |||
31. | National laws for implementation of the Convention | |||
32. | Enforcement matters | |||
33. | National reports | |||
34. | Reservations | |||
35. | Identification Manual | |||
36. | Master’s course on management of, access to and conservation of species in trade | SC53 Doc. 36 | ||
37. | Annotations in the Appendices | SC53 Doc. 37 | ||
Reports | ||||
38. | Reports of regional representatives | |||
38.1 | Africa | |||
38.2 | Asia | |||
38.3 | Central and South America and the Caribbean | |||
38.4 | Europe | |||
38.5 | North America | |||
38.6 | Oceania | |||
Concluding items | ||||
39. | Any other business | no document | ||
40. | Determination of the time and venue of the next meeting | no document | ||
41. | Closing remarks | no document | ||
Information documents
Document title | Document | |
| 1. | Synergy between CITES and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) | |
| 2. | Report on U.S. imports of Gonystylus spp: 2001-2004 | |
| 3. | Sustainability of Rat Snake (Ptyas mucosus) Harvests in Indonesia: A Discussion of Issues | |
| 4. | Nepal – Community-based conservation of Asian big cats in Nepal | |
| 5. | European Commission – European Union contribution to agenda item 8 on Synergy between CITES and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (English only) | |
| 6. | Clearing-house mechanism | |
| 7. | Honduras - Comercio signicativo en Strombus gigas | SC53 Inf. 7 |
| 8. | Informal meeting on saiga antelope | SC53 Inf. 8 (Rev.1) |
| 9. | Malaysia – Intervention note on the illegal trade in ramin (agenda item 23) | SC53 Inf. 9 |