| Directed to the Standing Committee |
| 14.37 |
The Standing Committee, with the
assistance of the Secretariat, the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
and IUCN – The World Conservation Union, shall undertake a review of the
recommendations to Parties to provide special reports under the Convention,
assess whether they have been or might be effectively incorporated into
the annual and biennial reports and consider how the biennial report format
might be revised to facilitate such incorporation. It shall report at the
15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties on its conclusions and recommendations. |
| Directed to the Secretariat |
| 14.38 |
The Secretariat shall: |
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a) |
continue to collaborate with the secretariats
of other biodiversity-related conventions, UNEP and other bodies in order
to facilitate the harmonization of knowledge management and reporting; |
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b) |
identify additional ways to reduce the reporting
burden on Parties, inter alia, in the context of its ongoing review
of the Resolutions and Decisions of the Conference of the Parties, its support
to the Standing Committee on electronic permitting and its work with IUCN
or other organizations to compile and analyse CITES-related reports; and |
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c) |
report at the 15th meeting of the Conference
of the Parties on the results of this work. |