Does this help? The members of the Animals<http://www.cites.org/eng/com/AC/member.php> and Plants Committees<http://www.cites.org/eng/com/PC/member.php> are individuals from the six major geographical regions (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Central and South America and the Caribbean, and Oceania) as well as one specialist on nomenclature on each of the two committees. They are elected at the meetings of the Conference of the Parties, with the number of regional representatives weighted according to the number of Parties within each region and according to the regional distribution of biodiversity. As in the Standing Committee, there is an elected alternate member for each of the six regions who represents the region at meetings when the relevant member is unable to attend. A Chairman and Vice-Chairman are elected by the regional members of the committees. The specialists on zoological and botanical nomenclature have no voting rights. They were integrated into the two scientific committees at the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (The Hague, 2007), following the decision to dissolve the Nomenclature Committee.
Pam Pamela Chasek, PhD Executive Editor, Earth Negotiations Bulletin IISD Reporting Services 300 East 56th Street #11D New York, NY 10022 USA +1-212-888-2737 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) www.iisd.org<http://www.iisd.org> IISD Reporting Services - Earth Negotiations Bulletin www.iisd.ca<http://www.iisd.ca> Subscribe for free to our publications http://www.iisd.ca/email/subscribe.htm From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Haas Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 2:22 PM To: GEP-ED Subject: [gep-ed] CITES animals and plants committees Does anyone know how experts are selected and appointed to the CITES committees? Peter M. Haas Professor Department of Political Science 216 Thompson Hall UMASS - Amherst -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
