AC20: Agenda and documents

 

Twentieth meeting of the Animals Committee

Johannesburg (South Africa), 29 March-2 April 2004

Agenda and documents

(all documents are provided in PDF format)

Agenda item

Document

1.

Opening of the meeting

No document

2.

Adoption of the Rules of Procedure

3.

Adoption of the agenda and working programme

  3.1

Agenda

  3.2

Working programme

4.

Admission of observers

AC20 Doc. 4

5.

Regional reports

  5.1

Africa

  5.2

Asia

  5.3

Central and South America and the Caribbean

No document
  5.4

Europe

  5.5

North America

  5.6

Oceania

  5.7

Improving regional communication and the regional representation

6.

Report of the Chairman

No document

  6.1

Liaison with the Standing Committee

No document
  6.2

Working group on technical implementation issues

No document
  6.3

Export quota working group

No document
  6.4

Reporting to the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties

No document
7.

Budget of the Animals Committee

8.

Review of Significant Trade in specimens of Appendix-II species (Resolution Conf. 12.8 and Decision 12.75)

  8.1

Progress on the implementation of the Review of Significant Trade (Phases V and VI)

  8.2

Review of the implementation of recommendations

  8.3.

Progress on the first country-based Review of Significant Trade

  8.4

Evaluation of the Review of Significant Trade

  8.5

Selection of species for review

  Analysis of Trade Trends
  -- Gross Exports Trade Table
  -- Annex A: Mammals
  -- Annex B: Birds
  -- Annex C: Reptiles and Amphibians
  -- Annex D: Fish and Invertebrates
9.

Review of the criteria for amendment of Appendices I and II (Decision 12.97)

  9.1

Evaluation of the criteria

  9.2

Conclusions of the 14th meeting of the Plants Committee

AC20 Doc. 9.2 (Rev. 1)
10.

Periodic review of animal and plant taxa in the Appendices [Resolution Conf. 11.1 (Rev. CoP12), Decision 12.96 and SC49 Doc. 20.1] - Report of the working group

AC20 Doc. 10 (Rev. 1)
11.

Process for registering operations that breed Appendix-I animal species for commercial purposes (Resolution Conf. 12.10 and Decision 12.78) - Report of the working group

AC20 Doc. 11

12.

Relationship between ex situ production and in situ conservation [Decision 11.102 (Rev. CoP12)] - Report of the working group

13.

Transport of live animals (Resolution Conf. 10.21 and Decisions 12.85-12.86) - Report of the working group

14.

Trade in hard corals [Resolution Conf. 11.10 (Rev. CoP12) and Decision 12.62] - Report of the working group

15.

Control of captive breeding, ranching and wild harvest production systems for Appendix-II species - Report of the working group

No document
16.

Conservation of and trade in tortoises and freshwater turtles [Resolution Conf. 11.9 (Rev. CoP12) and Decisions 12.41, 12.42 and 12.43]

No document
17.

Seahorses and other members of the family Syngnathidae (Decision 12.54) - Report of the working group

AC20 Doc. 17

18.

Conservation of and trade in sea cucumbers in the families Holothuridae and Stichopodidae (Decisions 12.60 and 12.61)

AC20 Doc. 18

19.

Biological and trade status of sharks (Resolution Conf. 12.6 and Decision 12.47) - Report of the working group

AC20 Doc. 19

20.

Trade in alien species (Decision 10.76)

21.

Standard taxonomy and nomenclature

No document
22.

Any other business

 
 

22.1

Identification Manual
23.

Closing remarks

No document

Information documents
(in English only)

Title

Document

1.
White Shark Carcharodon carcharias: status and management challenges
2.
Outline of harmonized codes for shark products
3.
How to supplement the harmonized code to include shark products: template
4.
How to supplement the harmonized code to include shark products: All codes
5.
Report of the analysis of questionnaire responses on National Plans of Action
6.
Proposal by Germany to list Lamna nasus in Appendix II
-- Annex
7.
Proposal by Germany to list Squalus acanthias in Appendix II
-- Annex
8.
Report by Brazil on the freshwater stingrays (Potamotrygonidae): status, conservation and management challenges
9.
Review of significant trade in the Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS)
10.
Action Plan for the reform of Madagascar's wildlife export trade
11.
Progress report by Madagascar regarding the Action Plan
12.
Taxa identified as possible candidates for inclusion in the Review of Significant Trade in specimens of Appendix-II species by TRAFFIC and IUCN/SSC Wildlife Trade Programme
13.
Proposal by Spain to include the genus Uromastyx in the Review of Significant Trade
14.
Conservation of and trade in sea cucumbers in the families Holothuridae and Stichopodidae (decisions 12.60 and 12.61)
-- Annex
15.
Report by IUCN/SSC Wildlife Trade Programme on Review of production systems
16.
Report of the Plants Committee working group on improving regional communication (PC14 WG2 Doc. 1)
17. Report of Plants Committee WG on evaluation of the review of significant trade (PC14 WG3.1 Doc. 1)
18.
Animal and plant production systems and CITES source codes
19.
Great white shark (GWS), CITES Appendix I Nomination
No electronic version
20.
Conservation and management status of spiny dogfish sharks, IUCN/SSG
No electronic version
21.
Update on progress made by IUCN/SSG in assessing the threatened status of sharks and related taxa
22.
Conservation and management status of spiny dogfish sharks (Squalus acanthias)
23.
Proposal by Australia to include Carcharodon carcharia in Appendix I
24.
Seahorse conservation and trade (workshop in Mazatlan, Mexico)
25.
Report of the working group on Conservation of and trade in tortoises and freshwater turtles
26. Harvest production systems for specimens of CITES-listed species (a document for CoP13)
No electronic version
27. Document on transport prepared by the Chairman of EAZA-TWG and the Chairman for zoological and exotic animals of AATA
No electronic version
28.
Provisional list of key shark species (identified in Resolution Conf. 12.6)
29. Proposal by Mexico to transfer Amazona finschi from Appendix II to Appendix I
30.
Master’s degree course on Management, access and conservation of species in trade: the international framework (Baeza)