AC20: Agenda and documents

Twentieth meeting of the Animals Committee

Johannesburg (South Africa), 29 March-2 April 2004

Agenda and documents

(all documents are provided in PDF format)

Agenda item			Document
1.	Opening of the meeting		No document
2.	Adoption of the Rules of Procedure		AC20 Doc. 2
3.	Adoption of the agenda and working programme
	3.1	Agenda	AC20 Doc. 3.1
	3.2	Working programme	AC20 Doc. 3.2
4.	Admission of observers		AC20 Doc. 4
5.	Regional reports
	5.1	Africa	AC20 Doc. 5.1
	5.2	Asia	AC20 Doc. 5.2
	5.3	Central and South America and the Caribbean	No document
	5.4	Europe	AC20 Doc. 5.4
	5.5	North America	AC20 Doc. 5.5
	5.6	Oceania	AC20 Doc. 5.6
	5.7	Improving regional communication and the regional representation	AC20 Doc. 5.7
6.	Report of the Chairman		No document
	6.1	Liaison with the Standing Committee	No document
	6.2	Working group on technical implementation issues	No document
	6.3	Export quota working group	No document
	6.4	Reporting to the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties	No document
7.	Budget of the Animals Committee
8.	Review of Significant Trade in specimens of Appendix-II species (Resolution Conf. 12.8 and Decision 12.75)
	8.1	Progress on the implementation of the Review of Significant Trade (Phases V and VI)	AC20 Doc. 8.1
	8.2	Review of the implementation of recommendations	AC20 Doc. 8.2
	8.3.	Progress on the first country-based Review of Significant Trade	AC20 Doc. 8.3
	8.4	Evaluation of the Review of Significant Trade	AC20 Doc. 8.4
	8.5	Selection of species for review	AC20 Doc. 8.5 AC20 Doc. 8.5 Erratum
		Analysis of Trade Trends	Annex
		-- Gross Exports Trade Table	Table
		-- Annex A: Mammals	Annex A
		-- Annex B: Birds	Annex B
		-- Annex C: Reptiles and Amphibians	Annex C
		-- Annex D: Fish and Invertebrates	Annex D
9.	Review of the criteria for amendment of Appendices I and II (Decision 12.97)
	9.1	Evaluation of the criteria	AC20 Doc. 9.1
	9.2	Conclusions of the 14th meeting of the Plants Committee	AC20 Doc. 9.2 (Rev. 1)
10.	Periodic review of animal and plant taxa in the Appendices [Resolution Conf. 11.1 (Rev. CoP12), Decision 12.96 and SC49 Doc. 20.1] - Report of the working group		AC20 Doc. 10 (Rev. 1)
11.	Process for registering operations that breed Appendix-I animal species for commercial purposes (Resolution Conf. 12.10 and Decision 12.78) - Report of the working group		AC20 Doc. 11
12.	Relationship between ex situ production and in situ conservation [Decision 11.102 (Rev. CoP12)] - Report of the working group		AC20 Doc. 12
13.	Transport of live animals (Resolution Conf. 10.21 and Decisions 12.85-12.86) - Report of the working group		AC20 Doc. 13
14.	Trade in hard corals [Resolution Conf. 11.10 (Rev. CoP12) and Decision 12.62] - Report of the working group		AC20 Doc. 14
15.	Control of captive breeding, ranching and wild harvest production systems for Appendix-II species - Report of the working group		No document
16.	Conservation of and trade in tortoises and freshwater turtles [Resolution Conf. 11.9 (Rev. CoP12) and Decisions 12.41, 12.42 and 12.43]		No document
17.	Seahorses and other members of the family Syngnathidae (Decision 12.54) - Report of the working group		AC20 Doc. 17
18.	Conservation of and trade in sea cucumbers in the families Holothuridae and Stichopodidae (Decisions 12.60 and 12.61)		AC20 Doc. 18
19.	Biological and trade status of sharks (Resolution Conf. 12.6 and Decision 12.47) - Report of the working group		AC20 Doc. 19
20.	Trade in alien species (Decision 10.76)		AC20 Doc. 20
21.	Standard taxonomy and nomenclature		No document
22.	Any other business
	22.1	Identification Manual	AC20 Doc. 22.1
23.	Closing remarks		No document

Information documents
(in English only)

Title		Document
1.	White Shark Carcharodon carcharias: status and management challenges	AC20 Inf. 1
2.	Outline of harmonized codes for shark products	AC20 Inf. 2
3.	How to supplement the harmonized code to include shark products: template	AC20 Inf. 3
4.	How to supplement the harmonized code to include shark products: All codes	AC20 Inf. 4
5.	Report of the analysis of questionnaire responses on National Plans of Action	AC20 Inf. 5
6.	Proposal by Germany to list Lamna nasus in Appendix II	AC20 Inf. 6
	-- Annex	AC20 Inf. 6A
7.	Proposal by Germany to list Squalus acanthias in Appendix II	AC20 Inf. 7
	-- Annex	AC20 Inf. 7A
8.	Report by Brazil on the freshwater stingrays (Potamotrygonidae): status, conservation and management challenges	AC20 Inf. 8
9.	Review of significant trade in the Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS)	AC20 Inf. 9
10.	Action Plan for the reform of Madagascar's wildlife export trade	AC20 Inf. 10
11.	Progress report by Madagascar regarding the Action Plan	AC20 Inf. 11
12.	Taxa identified as possible candidates for inclusion in the Review of Significant Trade in specimens of Appendix-II species by TRAFFIC and IUCN/SSC Wildlife Trade Programme	AC20 Inf. 12
13.	Proposal by Spain to include the genus Uromastyx in the Review of Significant Trade	AC20 Inf. 13
14.	Conservation of and trade in sea cucumbers in the families Holothuridae and Stichopodidae (decisions 12.60 and 12.61)	AC20 Inf. 14
	-- Annex	AC20 Inf. 14A
15.	Report by IUCN/SSC Wildlife Trade Programme on Review of production systems	AC20 Inf. 15
16.	Report of the Plants Committee working group on improving regional communication (PC14 WG2 Doc. 1)	AC20 Inf. 16
17.	Report of Plants Committee WG on evaluation of the review of significant trade (PC14 WG3.1 Doc. 1)	AC20 Inf. 17
18.	Animal and plant production systems and CITES source codes	AC20 Inf. 18
19.	Great white shark (GWS), CITES Appendix I Nomination	No electronic version
20.	Conservation and management status of spiny dogfish sharks, IUCN/SSG	No electronic version
21.	Update on progress made by IUCN/SSG in assessing the threatened status of sharks and related taxa	AC20 Inf. 21
22.	Conservation and management status of spiny dogfish sharks (Squalus acanthias)	AC20 Inf. 22
23.	Proposal by Australia to include Carcharodon carcharia in Appendix I	AC20 Inf. 23
24.	Seahorse conservation and trade (workshop in Mazatlan, Mexico)	AC20 Inf. 24
25.	Report of the working group on Conservation of and trade in tortoises and freshwater turtles	AC20 Inf. 25
26.	Harvest production systems for specimens of CITES-listed species (a document for CoP13)	No electronic version
27.	Document on transport prepared by the Chairman of EAZA-TWG and the Chairman for zoological and exotic animals of AATA	No electronic version
28.	Provisional list of key shark species (identified in Resolution Conf. 12.6)	AC20 Inf. 28
29.	Proposal by Mexico to transfer Amazona finschi from Appendix II to Appendix I	AC20 Inf. 29
30.	Master’s degree course on Management, access and conservation of species in trade: the international framework (Baeza)	AC20 Inf. 30