Summary
The 23rd meeting of the Plants Committee (PC23) met in parallel working groups throughout the day on Tuesday, 25 July.
In the morning, working groups met on the review of significant trade (RST), timber identification, periodic review of the appendices, and East African sandalwood (Osyris lanceolata). A working group on nomenclature met during lunch. In the afternoon, working groups met on the definition of the term “artificially propagated” and on rosewood timber species.
On RST, chaired by PC Nomenclature Specialist Noel McGough, the working group selected species-country combinations for review. The working group on timber identification focused on harmonizing and connecting reference collections and was chaired by Vera Teresinha Rauber Coradin (Brazil), representative for Central and South America and the Caribbean. The periodic review group, chaired by North America representative Isabel Camarena Osorno (Mexico), decided on plant species to recommend for periodic review and discussed ways to finance and facilitate periodic reviews. The working group on East African sandalwood, chaired by Africa representative Aurélie Flore Koumba Pambo (Gabon), met to draft a “realistic” workplan for assessing, among other things, the impact of legal and illegal trade on the conservation status of East African sandalwood.
In the working group on the definition of the term “artificially propagated,” chaired by Ocean representative Greg Leach (Australia) and Asia alternate representative Joeni Satijo Rahajo (Indonesia), participants considered problems with and potential solutions for different interpretations of terms. Participants in the working group on rosewood timber species, chaired by PC Chair Adrianne Sinclair, discussed implementation issues for rosewood and the interpretation of annotation 15 on "non-commercial shipments."
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Review of Significant Trade
View of the dais in the working group on review of significant trade
Nils Bourland, Belgium
Narcisse Lambert Mbarga, Cameroon
Augustin Ngumbi Amuri, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Melissa Blue Sky, Center for International Environmental Law
Serap Yilmaz, Turkey
Duangduen Sripotar, Thailand
Timber Identification
Robert Garner, ForestBased Solutions, LLC
David Newton, TRAFFIC
Chair Vera Teresinha Rauber Coradin, PC representative for Central and South America and the Caribbean
Haruko Okusu, CITES Secretariat
Milena Sosa Schmidt, CITES Secretariat
Deshni Pillay, South Africa
Periodic Review
Chair Isabel Camarena Osorno, PC representative for North America
East African Sandalwood
Chair Aurélie Flore Koumba Pambo, PC representative for Africa
Aysha Ghadiali, US
Tom De Meulenaer, CITES Secretariat
Rosewood Timber Species
View of the dais in the working group on rosewood timber species
Anne St. John, US
Ursula Moser, PC representative for Europe
PC Chair Adrianne Sinclair, Canada
Marco Ciambelli, France
Michael Jousserand, Confederation of European Music Industries
Definition of “artificially propagated”
View of the working group on definition of “artificially propagated”
Susan Leopold, American Herbal Products Association
Yan Zeng, China
Wita Wardani, Indonesia
Around the Venue
