The Standing Committee was established by Resolution 1.1 of the Conference of the Parties. Its functions are to provide policy and administrative guidance between regular meetings of the Conference of the Parties. It consists of representatives of every global region, of the Depositary and, where applicable, of the country which plans to host the next meeting of the COP.

CMS Standing Committee Members since 1985 (Table in PDF Format)

The current membership (elected at COP9 in Rome) of the Standing Committee is as follows:

Reports of all meetings are available from the Secretariat.

		English	Français	Español
Extraordinary Meeting of the Standing Committee
Geneva, Switzerland, 8 June 2009	Draft Report of the Extraordinary Meeting
35th Standing Committee Meeting
Rome, Italy, 5 December 2008	Draft Report of the 35th Meeting of the CMS Standing Committee
34th Standing Committee Meeting
Rome, Italy, 30 November 2008	Draft Report of the 34th Meeting of the CMS Standing Committee
33rd Standing Committee Meeting
22 September 2008 (part Bonn and part teleconference)	Report of the 33rd Meeting of the CMS Standing Committee
32nd Standing Committee Meeting
Bonn, Germany, 8-9 November 2007	Report of the 32nd Meeting of the CMS Standing Committee
31st Standing Committee Meeting
Bonn, Germany, 28-29 September 2006	Report of the 31st Meeting of the CMS Standing Committee
30th Standing Committee Meeting
Nairobi, Kenya, 25 November 2005	Report of the 30th Meeting of the CMS Standing Committee
29th Standing Committee Meeting
Nairobi, Kenya, 20 November 2005	Report of the 29th Meeting of the CMS Standing Committee