Working Group on Monitoring

Report to Inter-sessional on Outcome of WGM Sessions

Shanghai, People's Republic of China,9-12 June 2014

WORKING GROUP ON MONITORING

• Work Programme / Terms of Reference

- Agreement on updates to Work Programme 2014

- First round of debate on proposed revisions to ToRs

• Central African Republic (CAR) [with WGS and WGDE]

- CAR to further implement Work Plan and roadmap

- Participants to provide CAR with Technical Assistance

- Review Mission if security situation permits

EU-JRC/USGS monitoring of diamond mining

activities

- Draft-AD on ensuring that diamonds produced in CAR

are not introduced into the legitimate trade

WORKING GROUP ON MONITORING

• Peer Review System – Annual Reporting Exercise

- Submission of Annual Reports 2013 by most

Participants

- Assessments of Reports to be completed by 31 July

- Civil Society Coalition: Report on Activities 2013

• Peer Review System – Review Visits/Missions

- Final Reports: Russian Federation and Liberia (Work

Plan)

- Follow-up to Report recommendations: Canada, USA,

Switzerland, Singapore, Vietnam, Cote d’Ivoire

(Act. Plan)

- Review Visits proposed for 2014/15: China and Guinea,

plus Armenia, Guyana, Togo, Australia, Cote

d’Ivoire, plus Rep. of Congo, DRC, EU, Swaziland, Mexico

WORKING GROUP ON MONITORING

• West-Africa – Regional Approach

- Presentation by Mano River Union countries of RA

initiative, Regional Action Plan and national Action Plans

- Presentation by Technical Team on support activities

- Presentations from Implementing Partners (PRADD)

- “Friends of Mano River Union” group established

• Internet Trading (Ebay)

- Revival of Technical Expert Team on Internet Trading

- Template for Participants to write to service providers

WGM: WORK PROGRAMME 2014No Action Timeline Lead1. Annual Reporting exercise 2014 -

Submission of Annual Reports 201331 March

2014KP Chair, ASM

WGM Chair2. Pending Review Visit Reports - South

Africa, Liberia and Russian Federation31 March

2014WGM Chair

CH, DRC, SA3. Fraudulent Certificates and suspicious

shipments – New KP website space for early warnings and alerts

30 April 2014 KP Chair, ASM

WGM Chair4. WGM Terms of Reference - Options for

amendments30 April 2014

9-12 June 2014

WGM Chair

5. Annual Reporting exercise 2014 – Assessments of Annual Reports 2013

31 May 2014 WGM Members

6. Review Visit report recommendations – Follow-up

9-12 June 2014

WGM Chair

RV Teamleaders

7. Central African Republic (CAR) – Follow-up on monitoring activities

9-12 June 2014

KP Chair

WGM Chair8. West-Africa Regional Cooperation – Follow-

up on high-level technical workshop9-12 June

2014WGM Chair

DRC9. Annual Reporting exercise 2015 – New

template and guidelines for Annual Report 2014

27 August 2014

India

10. Côte d’Ivoire – Review Visit Sept./Oct. 2014

WGM Chair

 11. Annex II Recommendations - Advance

notifications and import confirmations (19 and 21)

10-14 November

2014

WGM Chair

12. National Stakeholders Forum – Sharing of experiences

10-14 November

2014

WGM Chair

Zimbabwe

13. Information Sharing (best practices) 

10-14 November

2014

WGM Chair

14. Provisional Planning of Review Visits 2014/15

See Annex II WGM Chair

Teamleaders

WGM: REVIEW VISITS 2014/15No Participant Dates Comments1. China 24-28 February

2014Team Leader: SA

Other participants: ANG, EU, RF, USA, WDC

2. Guinea 10-14 March 2014

Team Leader: DRC

Other participants: EU, IND, SL, USA WDC, CSC

3. Armenia (June/July 2014) Team Leader: RF

Other participants: ANG, EU, UAE, WDC

4. Guyana 15-19 September 2014

Team Leader: (CAN)

Other participants: ANG, USA,

5. Togo (August/Sept. 2014)

Team Leader: (CHINA)

Other participants: WDC

6. Australia 15-19 September 2014

Team Leader: (EU)

Other participants: USA, ZIM, WDC7. Côte d'Ivoire (December 2014)

 

Team Leader: (DRC)

Other participants: EU, GN, LIB, SA, SL, US, WDC, CSC

8. Swaziland 2015 Team Leader:

Other participants:

9. Congo-Brazzaville

2015 Team Leader:

Other participants: (CAR)

10. DRC 2015 Team Leader:

Other participants:

WORKING GROUP ON MONITORING

• Thanks to WGM members for a fruitful week

• Thanks to WGS and WGDE for joint session

• Thanks to KP Chair HE ViceMinister Wei Chuanzhong

• Looking forward to Plenary meeting in November