Review of Significant Trade in Cistanche deserticola, Dioscorea deltoidea,
Nardostachys grandiflora, Picrorhiza kurrooa, Pterocarpus santalinus,
Rauvolfia serpentina and Taxus wallichiana
| Directed to the range States of Cistanche deserticola, Dioscorea deltoidea, Nardostachys grandiflora, Picrorhiza kurrooa, Pterocarpus santalinus, Rauvolfia serpentina and Taxus wallichiana, to the regional representatives for Asia on the Plants Committee and to the Secretariat | ||||
| 15.36 | The bodies to which this Decision is directed should ensure the implementation of regionally coordinated actions to improve the management of the seven species and ensure that the trade therein is legal, sustainable and traceable. These measures could include, inter alia, the organization of regional capacity-building workshops, the improvement of methodologies to make non-detriment findings and to determine legal acquisition, the harmonization of management and compliance measures, and the development of incentives to prevent illegal trade. | |||
| Directed to the Secretariat | ||||
| 15.37 | The Secretariat shall: | |||
| a) | subject to the availability of external funding and in collaboration with the range States, the regional representatives for Asia on the Plants Committee, the World Health Organization, traditional medicine associations and TRAFFIC, organize one or several regional capacity-building workshops, on the basis, inter alia, of the recommendations in document PC17 Inf. 10; and | |||
| b) | inform the Plants Committee on progress made at its 20th meeting. | |||