COP 11 agenda and working documents

Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties

Gigiri (Kenya), 10-20 April 2000

Agenda and documents

1.	Rules of Procedure	Doc. 11.1 (Rev. 1, 23/03/00)
2.	Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairmen of the meeting and of Chairmen of Committees I and II and of the Budget Committee	no document
3.	Adoption of the Agenda	Doc. 11.3
4.	Adoption of the Working Programmes	Doc. 11.4
5.	Establishment of the Credentials Committee	no document
6.	Report of the Credentials Committee	no pre-meeting document
7.	Admission of observers	Doc. 11.7
8.	Matters related to the Standing Committee
	1. Report of the Chairman	Doc. 11.8
	2. Election of new regional and alternate regional members
9.	Reports of the Secretariat
	1. Annual report of the Secretariat	Doc. 11.9.1 (Rev. 1, 04/04/00)
	2. Staffing of the Secretariat	Doc. 11.9.2 (Rev. 1, 04/04/00)
10.	Financing and budgeting of the Secretariat and of meetings of the Conference of the Parties
	1. Financial report for 1997, 1998 and 1999	Doc. 11.10.1 (Rev. 1, 04/04/00) Annex 1a (Rev. 1, 04/04/00) Annex 1b (Rev. 1, 04/04/00) Annex 2 (Rev. 1, 04/04/00) Annex 3 (Rev. 1, 04/04/00) Annex 4 (Rev. 1, 04/04/00) Annex 5 (Rev. 1, 04/04/00)
	2. Estimated expenditures for 2000	Doc. 11.10.2 Annex
	3. Budget for 2001-2002 and Medium-term Plan for 2001-2005	Doc. 11.10.3 (Rev. 1, 04/04/00) Annex 1a (Rev. 1, 04/04/00) Annex 2 (Rev. 1, 04/04/00) Annex 3 (Rev. 1, 04/04/00)
	4. External funding	Doc. 11.10.4
11.	Committee reports and recommendations
	1. Animals Committee
	a) Report of the Chairman	Doc. 11.11.1 (revised 08/03/00)
	b) Election of new regional and alternate regional members
	2. Plants Committee
	a) Report of the Chairman	Doc. 11.11.2
	b) Election of new regional and alternate regional members
	3. Identification Manual Committee	Doc. 11.11.3
	4. Nomenclature Committee
	a) Report of the Chairmen	Doc. 11.11.4.1
	b) Recommendations of the Committee	Doc. 11.11.4.2
12.	Evolution of the Convention
	1. Action plan to improve the effectiveness of the Convention	Doc. 11.12.1
	2. Strategic plan for the Convention	Doc. 11.12.2
	3. Co-operation and synergy with the Convention on Biological Diversity and other biodiversity-related conventions	Doc. 11.12.3
	4. Improvement of the effectiveness of the Convention: financing conservation of species of wild fauna and flora	Doc. 11.12.4
13.	Terms of reference of permanent committees	Doc. 11.13
14.	Synergy with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization	Doc. 11.14
15.	International Whaling Commission
	1. Relationship with the International Whaling Commission	Doc. 11.15.1 (Rev. 1, 04/04/00)
	2. Reaffirmation of the synergy between CITES and the International Whaling Commission	Doc. 11.15.2
16.	Recognition of the important contribution made by observers to the CITES process at meetings of the Conference of the Parties	Doc. 11.16
Interpretation and implementation of the Convention
17.	Consolidation of valid Resolutions	Doc. 11.17
18.	Interpretation and implementation of Article III, paragraph 5, Article IV, paragraphs 6 and 7 and Article XIV, paragraphs 4, 5 and 6, relating to introduction from the sea	Doc. 11.18
19.	Report on national reports required under Article VIII, paragraph 7 (a), of the Convention	Doc. 11.19 Table 6
20.	Enforcement
	1. Review of alleged infractions and other problems of implementation of the Convention	Doc. 11.20.1
	2. Implementation of Resolutions	Doc. 11.20.2
21.	National laws for implementation of the Convention
	1. National legislation project	Doc. 11.21.1 (revised 08/03/00) Annex 4
	2. Measures to be taken with regard to Parties without adequate legislation	Doc. 11.21.2
22.	Reporting of seizures	Doc. 11.22
23.	Persistent offenders	Doc. 11.23
24.	Use of annotations in the appendices	Doc. 11.24
25.	Procedure for the review of criteria for amendment of Appendices I and II	Doc. 11.25
26.	Definition of the term "appropriate and acceptable destinations"	Doc. 11.26
27.	Recognition of risks and benefits of trade in wildlife	Doc. 11.27
28.	Quotas for species in Appendix I
	1. Leopard	Doc. 11.28.1 (revised 08/03/00)
	2. Markhor	Doc. 11.28.2
29.	Trade in bear specimens	Doc. 11.29
30.	Conservation of and trade in tigers	Doc. 11.30 (Rev. 1)
31.	Conservation of and trade in elephants
	1. Experimental trade in raw ivory of populations in Appendix II	Doc. 11.31.1
	2. Monitoring of illegal trade and illegal killing	Doc. 11.31.2
	3. Revision of Resolution Conf. 10.10	Doc. 11.31.3
	4. Non-commercial disposal of ivory stockpiles	Doc. 11.31.4
32.	Conservation of and trade in rhinoceroses	Doc. 11.32
33.	Exports of vicuña wool and cloth	Doc. 11.33
34.	Conservation of and control of trade in Tibetan antelope	Doc. 11.34
35.	Trade in freshwater turtles and tortoises to and in Southeast Asia	Doc. 11.35
36.	Trade in seahorses and other members of the family Syngnathidae	Doc. 11.36
37.	Identification and reporting requirements for trade in specimens of hard coral	Doc. 11.37
38.	Timber species
	1. Report from the Secretariat	Doc. 11.38.1
	2. Progress in the conservation of Swietenia macrophylla (bigleaf mahogany)	Doc. 11.38.2
39.	Standard nomenclature	Doc. 11.39
40.	Assistance to Scientific Authorities for making non-detriment findings	Doc. 11.40
41.	Significant trade in Appendix-II species
	1. Implementation of Resolution Conf. 8.9	Doc. 11.41.1
	2. Revision of Resolution Conf. 8.9	Doc. 11.41.2
42.	Trade in specimens of species transferred to Appendix II subject to annual export quotas	Doc. 11.42
43.	Amendment of Resolution Conf. 5.10 on the definition of "primarily commercial purposes"	Doc. 11.43
44.	Bushmeat as a trade and wildlife management issue	Doc. 11.44
45.	Amendment of Resolution Conf. 9.6
	1. Concerning diagnostic samples, samples for identification, research and taxonomic purposes and cell cultures and serum for biomedical research	Doc. 11.45.1
	2. Concerning final cosmetic products containing caviar	Doc. 11.45.2
46.	Cross-border movements of live animals for exhibition	Doc. 11.46
47.	Revision of resolutions on ranching and trade in ranched specimens	Doc. 11.47 (Rev. 1, 04/04/00)
48.	Registration of operations breeding specimens of Appendix-I species in captivity for commercial purposes	Doc. 11.48
49.	Animal hybrids: amendment of Resolution Conf. 10.17	Doc. 11.49
50.	Use of microchips for marking live animals in trade	Doc. 11.50
51.	Universal tagging system for the identification of crocodilian skins	Doc. 11.51
52.	Movement of sample crocodilian skins	Doc. 11.52
53.	Universal labelling system for the identification of sturgeon specimens (caviar)	Doc. 11.53
54.	Transport of live animals	Doc. 11.54
55.	Definition of the term "prepared"	Doc. 11.55
56.	Trade in traditional medicines	Doc. 11.56
57.	The Information Management Strategy	Doc. 11.57
58.	Potential risk of wildlife trade to the tourism industry	Doc. 11.58
Consideration of proposals for amendment of Appendices I and II
59.	Proposals to amend Appendices I and II	Doc. 11.59
	1. Proposals resulting from the periodic review by the Plants Committee	Doc. 11.59.1
	2. Proposals concerning export quotas for specimens of species in Appendix I or II	Doc. 11.59.2
	3. Other proposals	Doc. 11.59.3 Annex 3
Conclusion of the meeting
60.	Determination of the time and venue of the next regular meeting of the Conference of the Parties	Doc. 11.60
61.	Closing remarks	no document