World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 7-9 July 2003

Mr Emmanuel Agyarko, Chief Executive, Food and Drugs Board, Accra, Ghana

Dr Dora N. Akunyili, Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Garki Abuja, Nigeria [Chairperson]

Professor Ahmad S. Alkofahi, Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan

Dr Linda Anderson, Pharmaceutical Assessor, Medicines and Healthcare Products Agency, Department of Health, London, England

Mr U. Aung Myat Kyaw, Director, Department of Traditional Medicine, Ministry of Health, Yangon, Myanmar

Dr Kamel Boukef, Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine, Ministère de la Santé Publique, Tunis, Tunisia

Dr Anchalee Chuthaputti, Senior Pharmacist, Institute of Thai Traditional Medicine, Department for Development of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Professor Peter Eagles, Chairperson, South African Medicines Control Council, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa

Mrs Öznur Sevim Evranosoglu, General Directorate of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Health, Sihhiye Ankara, Turkey

Professor Harry H. S. Fong, WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine, College of Pharmacy, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (WHO Temporary Adviser)

Professor Chlodwig M. Franz, Head, Institute of Applied Botany, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Dr Benjamin Gilbert, Ministry of Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, FarManguinhos-Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Dr Eiman Hassan Abdel Rahman El Hassan, Director, Directorate of Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine, Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan

Dr Konstantin Keller, Director and Professor, Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices, Bonn, Germany (WHO Temporary Adviser)

Ms Lucie Larose, Deputy Director, Special Crops, Horticulture and Special Crops Division, Market and Industry Services Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Mr Jaafar Lassa, Head, Traditional Medicine Laboratory, National Pharmaceutical Control Bureau, Ministry of Health, Selangor, Malaysia

Dr Lin Rui Chao, Director, Division of Traditional Chinese Medicine, National Institute for the Control of Pharmaceutical & Biological Products, State Food and Drug Administration, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Dr Farnaz Rathore Malik, Chief, National Program Manager, Drugs Control and Traditional Medicine Division, National Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan

Mr Ng Wai-kit Grant, Pharmacist, Chinese Medicine Division, Department of Health, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China [Rapporteur]

Dr Efraim Njau, Pharmaceutical Consultant, Arusha, Tanzania

Mr Bala Prasad, Director, Department of Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India [Vice Chairperson]

Dr Ren Dequan, Deputy Director-General, State Food and Drug Administration, Beijing, People's Republic of China (WHO Temporary Adviser)

Professor Motoyoshi Satake, Life Science Center, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan (WHO Temporary Adviser)

Professor Kamilia Fouly Taha El-Sayed, Head Manager, Applied Research Centre for Medicinal Plants, National Organization for Drug Control and Research, Giza, Egypt

Dr Uwe Schippmann, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn, Germany

Dr Setsuko Sekita, Director, Tsukuba Medicinal Plants Research Station, National Institute of Health Sciences, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Tsukuba-shi, Japan

Professor Azimova Shakhnoz, Deputy Director, Main Department of Drug and Medical Equipment Quality Control, Ministry of Health, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Dr Michael J. Smith, Senior Advisor to the Director General, Natural Health Products Directorate, Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada [Rapporteur]

Dr Sergei Sur, Deputy Chief Inspector, State Inspection for Quality Control of Medicines, Ministry of Health, Kiev, Ukraine

Dr (Mrs) Suryowinoto Sutarni, Head, Sub-Directorate for Ethno-pharmacology and Cultivation, National Agency for Drug and Food Control, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Jakarta, Indonesia

Mr Hashim Ubale Yusufu, Deputy Director, Technical Services, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Garki-Abuja, Nigeria

Representatives of other organizations

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) Mr Peter Griffee, Senior Officer, Crop and Grassland Service (AGPC), Plant Production and Protection Division, FAO, Rome, Italy

FIP (International Pharmaceutical Federation) Professor Éva Németh-Zàmbori, Secretary, MAP Section, Faculty of Horticultural Sciences, Department of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary

IUCN (The World Conservation Union) Ms Mandy Haywood, IUCN/Species Survival Commission (SSC) Wildlife Trade Programme Assistant, Cambridge, England

TRAFFIC International (Trade Record Analysis of Fauna and Flora in Commerce) Mr Wolfgang Kathe, Research Officer, TRAFFIC Europe - Regional Office, Brussels, Belgium

UPOV (International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants) Mr Makoto Tabata, Senior Counsellor, UPOV, Geneva, Switzerland

WSMI (World Self-Medication Industry) Dr Barbara Steinhoff, German Medicines Manufacturers' Association (BAH), Bonn, Germany Dr David E. Webber, Director-General, Ferney-Voltaire, France

WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) Dr Susanne Schmitt, International Plants Conservation Officer, WWF-UK, Godalming, Surrey, England 71

WHO Secretariat

Dr Gholamreza Asghari, Technical Officer, Traditional Medicine, Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Mr Robert Bos, Scientist, Water, Sanitation and Health, Department of Protection of the Human Environment, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Ossy Kasilo, Regional Adviser, Traditional Medicine, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

Dr Deborah Kioy, Pre-Clinical Coordinator, Product Research and Development, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Sabine Kopp, Scientist, Quality Assurance and Safety: Medicines, Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Ms Yukiko Maruyama, Scientist, Traditional Medicine, Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Gerald Moy, GEMS/Food Manager, Department of Food Safety, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Samuel W. Page, Scientist, International Programme on Chemical Safety, Department of Protection of the Human Environment, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Xiaorui Zhang, Coordinator, Traditional Medicine, Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland