CITES Standing Committee
The Standing Committee provides general policy and operational direction to the Secretariat concerning the implementation of the Convention, drafts resolutions for consideration by the COP, and performs any other functions entrusted to it by the COP. The Standing Committee reports to the COP on the activities it has carried out between the COPs. Committee members are nominated by the COP and the Committee includes representatives from the depository government (Switzerland), the country that hosted the previous meeting of the COP, and the country that will host the next meeting of the COP. Terms of office expire at the second regular COP after that at which they were nominated.