FO:LACFC/2002/INF.2

Sunday 6 October

17:00 - 19:00 _ Registration (Colón Hotel)

Monday 7 October

08:30 - 09:10 _ Registration (Colón Hotel)

09:10 - 10:10 _ Opening ceremony

10:10 - 10:30 _ Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00 _ Item 1. Adoption of Agenda. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/1

_ Item 2. Election of Officers

11:00 - 12:30 _ Item 3. FAO reports

11.00 - 12.10 (3a) Presentation of the State of Forestry in the Region. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/2

12.10 - 12.30 (3b) Review of FAO Regular and Field Programmes, including follow-up to the recommendations and requests of the 21^st Session of the Commission. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/3 (for information)

12:30 - 14:00 _ Lunch break

14:00 - 15:15 _ Item 3 (Continued)

14.00 - 14.25 (3c) Progress of the Project on Forest Information and Outlook Study of the Forestry Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/4 (for information)

14.25 - 14.45 (3d) National forest programme Facility. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/5 (for information)

14.45 - 15.00 (3e) International Year of Mountains. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/6 (for information)

15.00 - 15.15 (3f) Preparations for the XII World Forestry Congress, Canada, 2003. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/7 (for information)

15:15 - 15:30 _ Item 4. Follow-up to the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Johannesburg Summit. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/8 (for information)

15:30 - 16:00 _ Coffee break

16:00 - 16:15 _ Item 5. Report on the FAO/ITTO International Conference on Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/9 (for information)

16:15 - 16:30 _ Item 6. II Latin America Forestry Congress (CONFLAT). Conclusions and recommendations. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/10 (for information)

16:30 - 16:45 _ Item 7. Forum of Directors of Forestry Research Organizations - IUFRO (for information)

16:45 - 18:00 _ Item 8. Activities of other international/intergovernmental/ non-governmental organizations in the Region

19:00 - 21:00 _ Reception offered by the Government of Argentina

Tuesday 8 October

08:30 - 09:00 _ Item 9. In-session technical panels.

09:00 - 10:40 _ Technical panel I - Regional participation in future global forest resources assessment. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/11. Ex-Vice-Chairperson of the Amazon Subregional Group. Election of rapporteur

Technical panel II - Integration of forest policies with policies of other sectors. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/12. Ex-Vice-Chairperson of the Caribbean Subregional Group. Election of rapporteur

10:40 - 11:00 _ Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 _ Plenary session for presentation of conclusions and recommendations of technical panels I and II

12:30 - 14:30 _ Lunch break

14:30 - 16:10 _ Technical panel III - Forest certification. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/13. Ex-Vice-Chairperson of the Southern Cone Subregional Group. Election of rapporteur

Technical panel IV - Illegal forest extraction and trade. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/14. Ex-Vice-Chairperson of the Central America and Mexico Subregional Group. Election of rapporteur

16:10 - 16:30 _ Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00 _ Plenary session for presentation of conclusions and recommendations of the technical panels III and IV

19:00 - 21:00 _ Reception offered by FAO

Wednesday 9 October

08:30 - 10:00 _ Item 10. In-session seminar: National Forest Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Doc. FO:LACFC/2002/15

10:00 - 10:20 _ Coffee break

10:20 - 12:30 _ Item 11. Meetings of the Subregional Groups of the Commission on past and ongoing activities and preparation of workplans for the period 2002-2004

12:30 - 14:30 _ Lunch break

14:30 - 17:30 _ Item 11 (Continuation)

17:30 - 18:30 _ Presentation in plenary of workplans for the period 2002-2004 of the four Subregional Groups

Thursday 10 October

08:30 _ Departure for field trip from the Colón Hotel

17:30 _ Arrival to the Colón Hotel

Friday 11 October

09:00 - 10:00 _ Item 12. Regional issues identified by the Commission for the attention of the Committee on Forestry

_ Item 13. Other business

_ Item 14. Date and place of next session of the LACFC

10:00 - 10:20 _ Coffee break

10:20 - 12:30 _ Item 15. Adoption of report

12.30 _ Closing of session