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The Scientific Council was established by the 1st meeting of the Conference of Parties (Bonn, 1985) to provide advice on scientific matters to other CMS bodies and CMS Parties foreseen in Article VIII of the Convention. The Scientific Council has the following general functions:
The Scientific Council shall undertake the following additional tasks:
The 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (Quito, 2014), through Resolution 11.4 on the restructuring of the Scientific Council, agreed on a number of institutional and organizational changes for the Council. In particular, while reaffirming that the Scientific Council will continue to be composed of members appointed by individual Parties and members appointed by the Conference of the Parties, decided that, for each intersessional period between two consecutive meetings of the Conference of the Parties, a representative selection of the membership of the Scientific Council, to be named the Sessional Committee of the Scientific Council, should be identified, composed of:
(a) nine COP-appointed Councillors with expertise in taxonomic and thematic issues; and
(b) fifteen Party-appointed Councillors selected from within the Standing Committee’s geographic regions, as follows: three from Africa; three from Asia; three from Europe; three from Oceania; three from South and Central America and the Caribbean.