Eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties

Kyoto (Japan), 2-13 March 1992

Agenda and working documents

(all documents are provided here in PDF format)

Agenda item				Document
I	Opening ceremony by the Authorities of Japan
II	Welcoming addresses
III	Adoption of the Rules of Procedure			Doc. 8.3 (Fin.)
IV	Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairmen of the meeting and of Chairmen of Committees I and II and the Budget Committee
V	Adoption of the Agenda and Working Programme			Doc. 8.1 (Fin) to Doc. 8.2.2 (Fin)
VI	Establishment of the Credentials Committee and Committees I and II
VII	Report of the Credentials Committee
VIII	Admission of observers			Doc. 8.4 (Rev.)
IX	Matters related to the Standing Committee
	1.	Report by the Chairman		Doc. 8.5
	2.	Election of new members and alternate regional members
X	Report of the Secretariat			Doc. 8.6
XI	Financing and budgeting of the Secretariat and of meetings of the Conference of the Parties
	1.	Financial report for 1989-1990-1991		Doc. 8.7
	2.	Anticipated expenditure for 1992		Doc. 8.8
	3.	Budget for 1993-1995 and Medium-term Plan for 1993-1998		Doc. 8.9
	4.	External funding		Doc. 8.10 & Doc. 8.11
XII	Committee reports and recommendations
	1.	Animals Committee		Doc. 8.12 (Rev.)
	2.	Plants Committee		Doc. 8.13
	3.	Identification Manual Committee		Doc. 8.14
	4.	Nomenclature Committee		Doc. 8.15
XIII	Interpretation and implementation of the Convention
	1.	Terms of reference for the administration of the Secretariat by UNEP		Doc. 8.16
	2.	Report on national reports under Article VIII, paragraph 7, of the Convention		Doc. 8.17 (Rev.)
	3.	Review of alleged infractions and other problems of enforcement of the Convention		Doc. 8.19 (Rev.)
	4.	Implementation of the Convention in the European Economic Community		Doc. 8.18 (Rev.) & Doc. 8.18.1 (Rev.)
	5.	Illegal trade of Singapore		Doc. 8.53
	6.	Recognition of the benefits of trade in wildlife		Doc. 8.48 (Rev.)
	7.	Reconsideration of "primarily commercial purposes"		Doc. 8.49 (Rev.)
	8.	Exports of leopard hunting trophies and skins		Doc. 8.20
	9.	Exports of cheetah hunting trophies and skins		Doc. 8.22 (Rev.)
	10.	Trade in specimens of species transferred to Appendix II subject to annual export quotas		Doc. 8.21
	11.	Trade in birds
		a)	Significantly traded species	Doc. 8.23, Doc. 8.23.1
		b)	Trade in species subject to high mortality rates	Doc. 8.24 to Doc. 8.24.2
	12.	Trade in wild-caught animal specimens		Doc. 8.23.2, Doc. 8.35, Doc. 8.35.1 (Rev.), Doc. 8.57, Doc. 8.58
	13.	Detrimental trade in sea turtles
	14.	Trade in crocodilian products		Doc. 8.26
	15.	Trade in plant specimens
		a)	Trade in flasked seedlings
		b)	Nursery registration for artificially propagated Appendix-I species	Doc. 8.28
		c)	Artificial propagation and trade in hybrids
		d)	Plant nomenclature
	16.	Significant trade in Appendix-II species
		a)	Animals	Doc. 8.30
		b)	Plants	Doc. 8.27, Doc. 8.29 and Doc. 8.31
	17.	Trade with States not party to the Convention		Doc. 8.54
	18.	Existence of hair, wool and cloth of vicuna in the European Economic Community, Japan and Hong Kong		Doc. 8.55 (Rev.)
	19.	Return to the wild of confiscated live animals of species included in Appendices II and III		Doc. 8.56
	20.	Export and re-export of confiscated specimens		Doc. 8.32
	21.	Marking of specimens		Doc. 8.33
	22.	Standardization of CITES permits and certificates		Doc. 8.34
	23.	Transport of live specimens		Doc. 8.36
	24.	Role of the Scientific Authority		Doc. 8.37 (Rev.)
	25.	Proposals to register the first commercial captive-breeding operation for an Appendix-I animal species
		a)	Format and criteria	Doc. 8.38
		b)	Consideration of proposals	Doc. 8.39
	26.	Guidelines for evaluating marine turtle ranching proposals		Doc. 8.40
	27.	Exemption for blood and tissue samples for DNA studies from CITES permit requirements		Doc. 8.41 (Rev.)
	28.	Criteria for amendments to the appendices		Doc. 8.50
	29.	A review of procedures and criteria for the transfer of crocodilians from Appendix I to Appendix II		Doc. 8.25
	30.	Support of range States for amendments to Appendices I and II		Doc. 8.51 (Rev.)
	31.	Review of Appendix III		Doc. 8.42
	32.	"Stricter domestic measures"		Doc. 8.52 (Rev.) & Doc. 8.52.1
XIV	Consideration of proposals for amendment of Appendices I and II			Doc. 8.46 (Rev.)
	1.	Proposals submitted pursuant to Resolution on Ranching		Doc. 8.43 (Rev.)
	2.	Ten Year Review proposals		Doc. 8.44
	3.	Proposals concerning export quotas		Doc. 8.45 & Doc. 8.45.1
	4.	Other proposals		Doc. 8.46.1 & Doc. 8.46.2
XV	Conclusion of the meeting
	1.	Determination of the time and venue of the next regular meeting of the Conference of the Parties		Doc. 8.47
	2.	Closing remarks