| Directed to Parties | ||||
| 15.23 | Parties are encouraged: | |||
| a) | to consider the outputs of the International Expert Workshop on Non-Detriment Findings (Cancún, November 2008) to enhance CITES Scientific Authorities’ capacities, particularly those related to the methodologies, tools, information, expertise and other resources needed to formulate non-detriment findings; | |||
| b) | taking into account Resolution Conf. 10.3, to prioritize activities such as workshops on capacity building to better understand what non-detriment findings are and how to enhance the ways to formulate them; and | |||
| c) | to report their findings regarding paragraphs a) and b) above at the 25th and 26th meetings of the Animals Committee and 19th and 20th meetings of the Plants Committee. | |||
| Directed to the Animals and Plants Committees | ||||
| 15.24 | The Animals and Plants Committees shall: | |||
| a) | review feedback received from Parties on the outputs from the International Expert Workshop on Non-Detriment Findings and advise on a path forward on how best to use the outputs to assist Scientific Authorities in the making of non-detriment findings; | |||
| b) | prepare a discussion paper for consideration at the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP16) with options on how to use the workshop outputs, including, if considered appropriate, a draft resolution on the establishment of non legally binding guidelines for the making of non-detriment findings; | |||
| c) | review the non-detriment finding training materials used by the CITES Secretariat when conducting regional capacity-building workshops and provide advice for their improvement; and | |||
| d) | taking account of the results of the International Expert Workshop on Non-Detriment Findings (Cancún, November 2008) and the responses to Notification to the Parties No. 2009/023 of 8 June 2009: | |||
| i) | establish the mechanism for reporting from the Parties on their findings in an open and intersessional process; | |||
| ii) | prepare draft guidance on the making on non-detriment findings at their 25th and 19th, and 26th and 20th meetings respectively; | |||
| iii) | submit this draft guidance to the Secretariat to be conveyed to Parties for comment in a Notification to the Parties; and | |||
| iv) | review comments received from Parties and prepare revised draft guidance as a tool for making non-detriment findings for submission and consideration at CoP16. | |||
| Directed to the Secretariat | ||||
| 15.25 | The Secretariat shall: | |||
| a) | include non-detriment findings as a principal component of its regional capacity-building workshops; and | |||
| b) | use the external funds offered from interested Parties, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, and other funding sources, to translate the guidelines into Arabic, Chinese and Russian and to support activities for capacity building on non-detriment findings in regional workshops. | |||