National reports
| Directed to the Standing Committee | ||||
| 14.37 (Rev. CoP15) |
The Standing Committee, with the assistance of its Working Group on Special Reporting Requirements and the Secretariat, shall: | |||
| a) | continue its 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; | |||
| b) | revise the standard biennial report format to gather information from Parties on incentive measures for implementation of the Convention, conservation measures for Appendix-I listed species and case studies on user fees; | |||
| c) | by its 61st meeting (SC61), follow up on how the reporting required in the indicators for the CITES Strategic Vision: 2008-2013 would be undertaken and, by SC62, begin applying the indicators; and | |||
| d) | report at the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties on its conclusions and recommendations. | |||
| Directed to the Secretariat | ||||
| 14.38 (Rev. CoP15) |
The Secretariat shall: | |||
| a) | continue to collaborate with the secretariats of other conventions, UNEP and other bodies in order to facilitate the harmonization of knowledge management and reporting; | |||
| b) | identify additional ways to reduce the reporting burden on Parties, inter alia, in the context of Party-led initiatives, 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 partners to compile and analyse CITES-related reports; and | |||
| c) | report at the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties on the results of this work. | |||