Directed to the Standing Committee13.71 The Standing Committee, in consultation with the Secretariat, Parties and relevant organizations, shall develop a process for consideration of specimens of personal and household effects of Appendix-II species which may need to have quantitative limits set to be exempted from permitting requirements according to Article VII, paragraph 3, of the Convention at the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties. Non-commercial loan, donation or exchange of museum and herbarium specimensDirected to the Secretariat 12.79 The Secretariat shall develop a brochure that will illustrate the importance of registering scientific institutions under Article VII, paragraph 6, of the Convention and demonstrate how the registration procedures can be applied in a simplified manner. Artificially propagated plants Directed to the Plants Committee13.72 The Plants Committee shall monitor the effects of implementing the revised definition of 'artificially propagated' contained in Resolution Conf. 11.11 (Rev. CoP13), pertaining to the production of specimens of Appendix-I species grown from wild-collected seeds and spores, and report their findings at the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties. This report shall particularly note any adverse effects on the conservation of Appendix-I species that have been subject to this revised definition. Directed to the Secretariat 13.73The Secretariat shall consider the revised definition of 'artificially propagated' contained in Resolution Conf. 11.11 (Rev. CoP13) and make only the necessary changes in Resolution Conf. 9.19 to remove any inconsistency between the two Resolutions that may have been caused by revising the definition of 'artificially propagated'. National wildlife trade policy reviewsDirected to the Secretariat 13.74 Contingent on the availability of external funding, the Secretariat shall, in collaboration with interested Parties and building on the findings and recommendations of the workshop on trade policy and economic incentives (Geneva, 2003):a) conduct, in cooperation with the Parties, a review of their national policies regarding the use of and trade in specimens of CITES-listed species, taking into account economic incentives, production systems, consumption patterns, market access strategies, price structures, certification schemes, CITES-relevant taxation and subsidy schemes, property rights, mechanisms for benefit sharing and

After stressing the importance of the plant kingdom to Man and the dangers threatening the survival of an estimated 20,000 species of flowering plants, this paper presents details of the activities of the IUCN Threatened Plants Committee (TPC), set up by the Survival Service Commission in 1974. The Secretariat of the TPC works through three main approaches: (1) regional groups of botanists and other experts identifying threats to their floras, advising the TPC, and preparing recommendations; (2) specialist groups doing similar work for plant groups such as palms and cycads; and (3) institutional support of botanic gardens and similar organizations maintaining collections of threatened species in cultivation. This last aspect was launched at a conference on conservation held at Kew in 1975.The primary aim of the TPC is to gather and disseminate information on which species are threatened throughout the world. Accurate documentation is essential, and in this task both herbarium and field work are needed. Although our knowledge in general of temperate, subtropical, and islands, floras is reasonably good in most cases, and there are specialists working on most of such areas, our knowledge of continental tropical floras is much less comprehensive. There is an urgent need for check-lists to be rapidly compiled for such areas wherever possible. In tropical rain-forests, the difficulties encountered in listing threatened species are particularly acute.Provided present collaboration continues and finance is provided, initial lists of rare and threatened species will become available within the next decade for many areas. This information should be of great value in preventing needless extinction through lack of planning or forethought, in providing a valuable input in the selection of sites for reserves, etc., and in complementing habitat conservation approaches—as well as helping to stimulate action on individual species.The ‘Red Data’ categories used by IUCN to indicate the degrees of threat to individual species are outlined, and will be used in the three types of TPC publication—regional lists of rare and threatened species, bulletins on smaller areas with more detail on each species, and sheets for the Red Data Book which will give detailed case-histories of a limited selection of threatened species. All three approaches are under way; the European List has been completed, bulletins for many areas are on the way, and the TPC aims to start issuing new plant Red Data sheets in 1977–78.

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