Twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties

1. Financing and budgeting of the Secretariat and of meetings of the Conference of the Parties - External funding

2. Financing and budgeting of the Secretariat and meetings of the Conference of the Parties - Financial report for 2000 and 2001

3. Report of the Second Technical Consultation on the Suitability of the CITES Critieria for Listing Commercially-exploited Aquatic Species (FAO)

4. Draft checklist of the living monitor lizards of the world (family Varanidae)

5. Proposed standard reference for the genus Taxus

6. Report on the captive breeding of tortoises and freshwater turtles in China (China)

7. Financing and budgeting of the Secretariat and meetings of the Conference of the Parties - Estimated expenditures for 2002

8. Trade in time-sensitive biological samples (United Kingdom)

9. Guide for participants

10. Comments on revised CITES criteria (Japan)

11. A Note for CITES on Progress towards the Finalisation of a Revised Management Scheme for Commercial Whaling (RMS) within the International Whaling Commission (IWC)

12. Report on the conservation status, legal and illegal trade of the yellow-naped parrot (Amazona auropalliata) and the yellow-headed parrot (Amazona oratrix): Considerations for the transfer from Appendix II to Appendix I of Prop. 12.16 Amazona auropalliata (Costa Rica) and Prop. 12.17 Amazona oratrix (Mexico)

13. CITES Standard reference for the species of Cordylus (Cordylidae, Reptilia) prepared at the request of the CITES Nomenclature Committee

14. A preliminary review of the management of trade in elephant products in China (China)

15. Resolution on commercial whaling (Germany)

16. Payments of contributions by Parties (Secretariat)

17. Petition of the Government of the Republic of Korea regarding the use of the term "Sea of Japan" in the quotation of Japan's proposal on Minke Whales (Republic of Korea)

18. Amendment of annotation 607o (WHO)

19. Summary of CCAMLR-XXI Deliberations on CITES listing proposal 39

20. Inclusion of the Humphead Wrasse, Cheilinus undulatus, in Appendix II of CITES (United States of America)

21. Inclusion of all species seahorses in the genus Hippocampus on Appendix II of CITES (United States of America)

22. Statement from the Secretariat concerning "East Sea/Sea of Japan"

23. Proposition d’amendement des annexes suivant la Résolution de CITES Conf. 9. 24 (Madacascar)

24. Conservation of Swieteniamacrophylla - Brazilian position

25. (Bolivia)

26. (Russia)

27. Additional information to the Proposal 12.16 to transfer the Yellow-naped Amazon (Amazonaauropalliata) from Appendix II to Appendix I Costa Rica)

28. Egyptian Wildlife Report

29. "Sharks" and COP12 – A Case for Caution

30. Position paper in support of CITES Proposal 12.35 (India and the Philippines)

31. (Ecuador)

32. Presentation by Guatemala on the inclusion of big leaf mahogany (Swieteniamacrophylla) in CITES Appendix II

33. Genetic differentiation of the Black Sea bottlenose dolphins population (Tursiops spp) (Georgia)

34. Sea of Japan (Japan)

35. Principal results of the aerial observations of the Black Sea dolphins in 1970s-80s (Russia)

36. (the Philippines)

37. CITES Review of Exploitation, Trade and Management of the Marine Turtles of the Lesser Antilles, Central America, Colombia and Venezuela

38. Saiga tatarica: summary of the CITES-sponsored workshop in Kalmykia in May 2002 and presentation of the draft conservation action plan

39. Draft decision of the Conference of the Parties: Implementation of annotation o604 on Loxodonta africana

40. Statement of the delegation of India regarding proposals for the reopening of internatoinal trade in ivory from the African elephant (Loxodonta africana)

41. Statement of the Secretariat regarding the reference to 'Sea of Japan’

42. Statement by the Delegation of Brazil on the Proposal by Guatemala and Nicaragua for inclusion of Mahogany Species in Appendix II

43. Reference to "Sea of Japan" (Japan)

44. Reference to "Sea of Japan" (Korea)