CITES Conference of the Parties

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conference of the parties decision-making body governing body international environmental governance mechanism

The CITES Conference of the Parties is the main decision-making body of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, where member countries meet to set global rules and policies for wildlife trade regulation.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
CITES Conference of the Parties canonical	10
Conference of the Parties to CITES	5
CITES CoP	2
CITES Conference of the Parties resolutions	1
Conférence des Parties à la CITES	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	conference of the parties ⓘ decision-making body ⓘ governing body ⓘ international environmental governance mechanism ⓘ
aimsTo	ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival ⓘ
appliesTo	international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora ⓘ
canEstablish	committees and working groups ⓘ
composedOf	Parties to CITES ⓘ
convenedBy	CITES Secretariat ⓘ
decisionType	binding for Parties when amending Appendices ⓘ non-binding resolutions and decisions providing guidance ⓘ
firstSessionHeldInCity	Berne ⓘ
firstSessionHeldInYear	1976 ⓘ
governs	implementation of CITES at the international level ⓘ
hasFunction	adopt decisions and recommendations to Parties ⓘ adopt resolutions on the implementation of CITES ⓘ amend CITES Appendices ⓘ consider proposals to list or delist species in CITES Appendices ⓘ provide policy guidance to the CITES Secretariat ⓘ review national reports and compliance issues ⓘ review the implementation of the Convention ⓘ set global rules for international wildlife trade regulation under CITES ⓘ strengthen the effectiveness of the Convention ⓘ
hasRole	forum for CITES Parties ⓘ main decision-making body of CITES ⓘ policy-making body of CITES ⓘ
language	United Nations languages as working and official languages ⓘ
legalBasis	Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ⓘ
mandatedBy	articles of the CITES Convention ⓘ
meetsAtFrequency	approximately every three years ⓘ
monitors	effectiveness of CITES measures ⓘ
oversees	CITES Animals Committee ⓘ surface form: Animals Committee of CITES Plants Committee ⓘ surface form: Plants Committee of CITES Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ⓘ surface form: Standing Committee of CITES
participantsInclude	Parties to CITES ⓘ surface form: CITES member states intergovernmental organizations ⓘ non-governmental organizations ⓘ observer states ⓘ
partOf	Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ⓘ
relatedTo	Conference of the Parties ⓘ surface form: Conference of the Parties to other multilateral environmental agreements United Nations Environment Programme ⓘ
scope	global ⓘ
shortName	CITES Conference of the Parties self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: CITES CoP
subjectArea	biodiversity conservation ⓘ endangered species protection ⓘ wildlife trade regulation ⓘ
typeOfMeeting	multilateral treaty conference ⓘ
usesInstrument	CITES Appendices ⓘ surface form: CITES Appendices I, II and III

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: CITES Conference of the Parties
Description of subject: The CITES Conference of the Parties is the main decision-making body of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, where member countries meet to set global rules and policies for wildlife trade regulation.

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Animals Committee → reportsTo → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

Plants Committee → reportsTo → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

CITES Secretariat → supports → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

Appendix III → adoptedBy → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

Convention de Washington → organeDeDécision → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

this entity surface form: Conférence des Parties à la CITES

CITES Appendix I → adoptedBy → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

this entity surface form: Conference of the Parties to CITES

CITES Article II → interpretedBy → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

this entity surface form: CITES Conference of the Parties resolutions

CoP → shortName → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

subject surface form: Conference of the Parties

this entity surface form: CITES CoP

Parties to CITES → participatesIn → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora → reportsTo → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

this entity surface form: Conference of the Parties to CITES

Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora → supports → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

this entity surface form: Conference of the Parties to CITES

Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora → establishedBy → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

this entity surface form: Conference of the Parties to CITES

CITES Resolutions and Decisions concerning committee structure → adoptedBy → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

CITES Appendices → maintainedBy → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

this entity surface form: Conference of the Parties to CITES

CITES Animals Committee → hasParentOrganization → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

CITES Animals Committee → supportsBody → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

CITES Animals Committee → reportsTo → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ

CITES Conference of the Parties → shortName → CITES Conference of the Parties self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: CITES CoP

Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora → subjectOf → CITES Conference of the Parties ⓘ