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Technical Advisory Committee At its Seventeenth Meeting, held in July 2006, in Sapporo, Japan, the Montréal Process Working Group welcomed the report from the TAC on the indicator review. This TAC report was prepared by TAC Convenor Dr. Tim Payn and Project Officer Mr. Simon Bridge with the support of TAC members. The Report was based on the work done by the TAC over three indicator review meetings held in Iguazú, Argentina, in June 2004; Sochi, Russia in October 2005; and Malalcahuello, Chile, in November 2005. The Working Group reviewed and discussed refinements to the TAC proposed indicators, with the following results:
At its Sixteenth Meeting, held in October 2004, in Edmonton and Jasper, Alberta, Canada, the Montréal Process Working Group welcomed the report from the TAC on the proposed indicator review process. This TAC report is based on the TAC's 7th meeting, held in in June 2004. The Working Group agreed to a review process based on modified Option 1, which will allow the Montréal Process Working Group to approved revised indicators by February 2006. The review process will involve one or two small, focused indicator review meeting(s). The TAC will prepare reports on the following issues:
At its Fifteenth Meeting, held in September 2003, in Québec City, Canada, on the margins of the XII World Forestry Congress, the Montréal Process Working Group formally launched the Montréal Process First Forest Overview Report 2003. Participating member countries endorsed the Québec City Declaration in country statements and closed the formal portion of the meeting. The Working Group then discussed the new TAC Convenor and timing of, as well as tasks for, the next meeting of the TAC. New Zealand agreed to take over the role of TAC Convenor until mid-2006. The TAC will meet in Argentina in May or June 2004, and the Working Group is asking the TAC to meet and review options and preparatory work for reviewing the Montréal Process criteria and indicators, in light of the recent reporting process undertaken and other international developments. The Working Group will meet again in Canada in September or October 2004 and review the work done by the TAC. At its Fourteenth Meeting, held in April 2003, in Montevideo, Uruguay, the Montréal Process Working Group welcomed the report from the TAC on the current draft of the Montréal Process First Forest Overview Report 2003. After an extensive review of the draft document, the Working Group agreed to final text as well as to format and graphic revisions. The Working Group requested the Liaison Office to publish copies of the final report in English, Spanish and French for distribution at the XII World Forestry Congress. It was suggested that countries translate the overview report into their own languages to facilitate domestic use. The Working Group also recognized the need to convene a TAC meeting prior to its 16th meeting to develop a draft proposal on identifying an approach for reviewing the indicators in light of experience gained in preparing the 2003 country forest reports, with a view to refining them as needed. At its Thirteenth Meeting, held in November 2001, in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, the Montréal Process Working Group welcomed the report by the TAC on the results of the TAC meeting to prepare the Overview Report of the First Montréal Process Forest Report (2003). The Working Group accepted the proposed outline for the "Highlights on Trends" section of the Overview Report as well as the seven indicators specified on which all countries will report in National Reports. The Working Group also agreed to a schedule for preparing the Overview Report and National Reports. The Working Group also welcomed the report by New Zealand on the "Capacity Building Workshop"; this workshop was held to assist countries to meet their priority needs for preparing their 2003 national reports. At its Twelfth Meeting, held in November 2000, in Beijing, People’s Republic of China, the Montréal Process Working Group welcomed the report presented by the TAC, "Examples of mechanisms for the development, identification and implementation of sub-national indicators for sustainable forest management, which can be linked to national level indicators" and agreed to post it, as amended, on the Montréal Process Web site. The Twelfth Meeting also welcomed the offer by Canada to explore the possibility of publishing this and other TAC technical aids as a Canadian Forest Service "Information Report". The meeting also welcomed the report of the TAC on "Country guidelines for the presentation of information on criteria and indicators in the First Montréal Process Forest Report" to be published in 2003. The Working Group agreed to the guidelines, outline and format for the report and requested the TAC to undertake several additional activities to facilitate development of the report and sharing of information among countries. At its Eleventh Meeting, the Working Group accepted the Technical Notes (Criteria 1-6) and requested member countries to work with TAC members to finalize the Technical Notes related to Criterion 7 and the Glossary. The Working Group also welcomed the papers tabled by the TAC and agreed to a summary of key points. At the Tenth Meeting of the Working Group in October 1998 in Moscow, Russia, it was agreed to publish a set of "technical notes" that would contain rationale statements for each of the indicators, definitions of key words, and suggested approaches for measuring the criteria and indicators, as developed by the TAC. The publication is to serve as a general guide to users and will be updated as required to reflect the latest scientific thinking. At its Tenth Meeting the Working Group also requested that the TAC consider and prepare papers on the following issues for consideration by the Working Group at its 11th meeting:
At their Ninth Meeting, the Working Group approved the first report of the TAC. In addition, it was agreed that the Technical Advisory Committee would have an ongoing role to work between Working Group meetings on specific tasks assigned to it by the Working Group. Additional immediate work would be the definition of terms and rationale statements for all indicators, consideration of measurement approaches to data collection for all indicators, and consideration of approaches to assembling and reporting regionally based data on a national level, among other tasks. At their Eighth Meeting, held in June 1996, in Canberra, Australia, the Montréal Process Working Group agreed to establish an ad hoc and task-oriented group called the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) to provide advice on technical matters. Originally, the TAC was tasked with three areas of work. These areas related to the definition of terms, an examination of the use of forest type as a means to characterize biodiversity and the development of approaches to gathering data for an identified set of indicators. These would help countries develop protocols for data collection. Contact: Dr. Tim Payn |
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