Nineteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties

Opening ceremony

Welcoming addresses

1. Election of Chair and Vice-Chair of the meeting and of Chairs of Committees I and II

2. Adoption of the agenda

3. Adoption of the working programme

4. Rules of Procedure of the Conference of the Parties

4.1. Report of the Standing Committee

4.2. Proposed amendment to Rule 26

5. Credentials Committee

5.1. Establishment of the Credentials Committee

5.2. Report of the Credentials Committee

6. Admission of observers

7. Administration, finance and budget of the Secretariat and of meetings of the Conference of the Parties

7.1. Administration of the Secretariat

7.2. Report of the Executive Director of UNEP on administrative matters

7.3. Financial reports for 2020-2022

Annex 1: Financial report on costed programme of work for 2020

Annex 2: CITES Trust Fund (CTL) – status of contributions as of 31 December 2020

Annex 3: CITES External Trust Fund (QTL) – status of contributions as of 31 December 2020

Annex 4: Financial report on costed programme of work for 2021

Annex 5: CITES Trust Fund (CTL) – status of contributions as of 31 December 2021

Annex 6: CITES Trust Fund (CTL) – annual distribution of the unpaid contributions as of 31 December 2021

Annex 7: CITES External Trust Fund (QTL) – status of contributions as of 31 December 2021

Annex 8: Statement of income and expenditure and changes in reserve and fund balance for the period 2019-2020

Annex 9: Financial report on costed programme of work for 2022 - up to 30 June 2022

Annex 10: CITES Trust Fund (CTL) – status of contributions as of 30 June 2022

Annex 11: CITES Trust Fund (CTL) – annual distribution of the unpaid contributions as of 30 June 2022

Annex 12: CITES External Trust Fund (QTL) – status of contributions as of 30 June 2022

Annex 13: Statement of income and expenditure for the year 2021

Annex 14: Costed Programme of Work of the CITES Secretariat for 2022 as at 30 September 2022

Annex 15: CITES Trust Fund (CTL) – status of contributions as of 30 September 2022

Annex 16: CITES Trust Fund (CTL) – annual distribution of the unpaid contributions as of 30 September 2022

Annex 17: CITES External Trust Fund (QTL) 2020-2022 – status of contributions as of 30 September 2022

7.4. Budget and work programme for 2023 to 2025

Annex 1: Draft resolution on Financing and the costed programme of work for the Secretariat for the triennium 2023-2025

Annex 2: Budget scenario – zero real growth

Annex 3: Budget scenario – zero nominal growth

Annex 4: Budget scenario – incremental growth

7.5. Access to funding

7.6. Sponsored delegates project

8. Language strategy for the Convention

9. Committee reports and recommendations

9.1. Standing Committee

9.1.1. Report of the Chair

9.1.2. Election of new regional and alternate regional members

9.2. Animals Committee

9.2.1. Report of the Chair

9.2.2. Election of new regional and alternate regional members

9.3. Plants Committee

9.3.1. Report of the Chair

9.3.2. Election of new regional and alternate regional members

10. CITES Strategic Vision

11. Appendix-I listed species

12. World Wildlife Trade Report

13. Engagement of indigenous peoples and local communities

14. Livelihoods

15. Participatory mechanisms for rural communities in CITES

16. Capacity building

17. Cooperation with organizations and multilateral environmental agreements

17.1. Cooperation with other biodiversity-related conventions

17.2. Cooperation with the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation

17.3. Cooperation with the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

17.4. Joint CITES-CMS African Carnivores Initiative

17.5. International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime

18. United Nations World Wildlife Day

19. CITES and forests

20. CITES Tree species programme

21. Review of the ETIS programme

22. MIKE and ETIS programmes

23. Role of CITES in reducing risk of future zoonotic disease emergence associated with international wildlife trade

23.1. Report of the Standing Committee

23.2. One Health and CITES: Human and animal health risks from wildlife trade

24. Implications of the COVID‑19 pandemic on the implementation of the Convention

25. Action plan on gender-related matters

26. Review of Resolutions

27. Review of Decisions

28. National laws for implementation of the Convention

29. Compliance matters

29.1. Implementation of Article XIII and Resolution Conf. 14.3 (Rev. CoP18) on CITES compliance procedures

29.2. Totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi)

29.2.1. Report of the Secretariat

29.2.2. Renewed and updated Decisions for CoP19

29.3. Malagasy ebonies (Diospyros spp.) and palisanders and rosewoods (Dalbergia spp.)

30. Compliance Assistance Programme

31. Country-wide Significant Trade Reviews

32. Review of Resolution Conf. 11.3 (Rev. CoP18) on Compliance and enforcement

33. Enforcement matters

34. Annual illegal trade reports

35. Task Force on illegal trade in specimens of CITES-listed tree species

36. Wildlife crime enforcement support in West and Central Africa

36.1. Report of the Standing Committee

36.2. Wildlife crime and CITES enforcement support in West and Central Africa

37. Wildlife crime linked to the Internet

38. Demand reduction to combat illegal trade

39. Domestic markets for frequently illegally traded specimens

40. Guidance for making legal acquisition findings

Addendum

41. Electronic systems and information technologies and authentication and control of permits

42. Purpose codes on CITES permits and certificates

43. Non-detriment findings

43.1. Report of the Animals and Plants Committees

43.2. Making non-detriment findings for specimens of Appendix-II species taken in the marine environment not under the jurisdiction of any State

44. Identification materials

44.1. Review of Resolution Conf. 11.19 (Rev. CoP16)

44.2. Identification of timber and other wood products

45. Labelling system for trade in caviar

46. Trade in stony corals

47. Specimens produced through biotechnology

48. Definition of the term 'appropriate and acceptable destinations'

49. Introduction from the sea

50. Disposal of confiscated specimens

51. Quotas for leopard (Panthera pardus) hunting trophies

52. Transport of live specimens: improving implementation of the transport regulations

53. Review of CITES provisions related to trade in specimens of animals and plants not of wild source

54. Review of the provisions of Resolution Conf. 17.7 on Review of trade in animal specimens reported as produced in captivity

55. Registration of operations that breed Appendix I animal species in captivity for commercial purposes

56. Guidance on the term ‘artificially propagated’

57. Specimens grown from wild-collected seeds or spores that are deemed to be artificially propagated

58. West African vultures (Accipitridae spp.)

59. Illegal trade in cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)

60. Conservation of amphibians (Amphibia spp.)

61. Eels (Anguilla spp.)

62. Agarwood-producing taxa (Aquilaria spp. and Gyrinops spp.)

62.1. Report of the Plants Committee

62.2. The history and challenges of agarwood and CITES

63. Boswellia trees (Boswellia spp.)

64. Marine turtles (Cheloniidae spp. and Dermochelyidae spp.)

64.1. Report of the Secretariat and the Standing Committee

64.2. Conservation of marine turtles

65. Sharks and rays (Elasmobranchii spp.)

66. Elephants (Elephantidae spp.)

66.1. Implementation of Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP18) on Trade in elephant specimens

66.2. Ivory stockpiles

66.2.1. Ivory stockpiles: implementation of Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP18) on Trade in elephant specimens

66.2.2. Establishing a fund accessible to range States upon non-commercial disposal of ivory stockpiles

66.3. Implementing aspects of Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP18) on the closure of domestic ivory markets

66.4. Trade in live African elephants

66.4.1. International trade in live African elephant specimens: Proposed revision to Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP18) on Trade in elephant specimens

66.4.2. Clarifying the framework: Proposal of the European Union

66.5. Report on Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE)

66.6. Report on the Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS)

66.7. Review of the National Ivory Action Plan process

67. CITES Big Cats Task Force (Felidae spp.)

68. Asian big cats (Felidae spp.)

69. Seahorses (Hippocampus spp.)

69.1. Report of the Standing Committee

69.2. Next steps towards the successful implementation of the Appendix-II listing for seahorses

70. Rosewood timber species [Leguminosae (Fabaceae)]

71. Pangolins (Manis spp.)

71.1. Report of the Standing Committee and of the Animals Committee

71.2. Proposed amendments to Resolution Conf. 17.10

72. African lions (Panthera leo)

73. Jaguars (Panthera onca)

73.1. Report of the Standing Committee

73.2. Proposed amendments to the draft decisions on jaguars agreed at SC74

74. Songbird trade and conservation management (Passeriformes spp.)

75. Rhinoceroses (Rhinocerotidae spp.)

76. Saiga antelope (Saiga spp.)

77. Queen conch (Strombus gigas)

78. Tortoises and freshwater turtles (Testudines spp.)

79. African tree species

80. Marine ornamental fishes

81. Neotropical tree species

82. Trade in medicinal and aromatic plant species

83. Identifying species at risk of extinction for CITES Parties

84. Standard nomenclature

84.1. Report of the Animals and Plants Committees

84.2. Standard nomenclature for Dipteryx spp.

84.3. Standard nomenclature for Khaya spp.

84.4. Standard nomenclature for Rhodiola spp.

85. Annotations

85.1. Annotations: Report of the Standing Committee

85.2. Information system for trade in specimens of CITES-listed tree species

85.3. Informal review mechanism of existing and proposed annotations

86. Products containing specimens of Appendix-II orchids

87. Amendments to Resolution Conf. 9.24 (Rev. CoP17)

87.1. Proposed amendments to Resolution Conf. 9.24 (Rev. CoP17)

87.2. Aquatic species listed in the CITES Appendices: proposals for a new approach to the listing of sharks and rays

88. Communications concerning amendments to the Appendices received by the Depositary Government after the 18th meeting of the Conference of the Parties

89. Proposals to amend Appendices I and II

89.1. Secretariat’s assessment of the proposals to amend Appendices I and II (Annex II added)

89.2. Comments from Parties

89.3. Comments from statutory consultees

Annex 1: Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)

Annex 2: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Annex 3: International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)

Annex 4: International Timber Trade Organization (ITTO)

Annex 5: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Annex 6: Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (CPPS)

Annex 7: Central American Fisheries and Aquaculture Organization (OSPESCA)

Annex 8: Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)

90. Determination of the time and venue of the next regular meeting of the Conference of the Parties

91. Closing remarks (Observers, Parties, CITES Secretary General, Host Government)