Cooperation between Parties and promotion of multilateral measures

*Directed to Parties*
14.28	Parties with stricter domestic measures and reservations should review them, as and when appropriate, in order to determine whether they are effective in order to achieve the objectives of the Convention to ensure that trade in wild fauna and flora species is not detrimental to their survival.
*Directed to the Standing Committee*
14.29	The Standing Committee shall establish at its 57th meeting a working group which, operating by electronic means, should:
	a)	review and, if necessary, revise any consultancy report produced under Decision 14.30;
	b)	organize, with the help of the Secretariat, a meeting with representation from all CITES regions to discuss the above report; and
	c)	based on the report of the meeting mentioned above, consider the need to draft for consideration at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties any revised or new resolutions.
*Directed to the Secretariat*
14.30	The Secretariat shall, if external funds are made available for the purpose:
	a)	hire a consultant to prepare a report on ways to assess whether:
		i)	the Resolutions of the Conference of the Parties are implemented by all Parties as consistently as possible and whether there is a need to clarify, revise or repeal them; and
		ii)	the scope for multilateral CITES processes that reduce the need by Parties for recourse to stricter domestic measures and reservations should be further developed; and
	b)		assist the Standing Committee in organizing the meeting mentioned in Decision 14.29.