Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention

The Board requests all Governments to establish or strengthen existing procedures to allow them to adequately monitor the licit trade in, uses of and requirements for substances in Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention and to report relevant data in... 

All of the major manufacturing and exporting countries have continued to provide comprehensive information on exports of substances in Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention. For 2003, Brazil has resumed reporting on exports of scheduled substances, notably potassium permanganate. As noted in paragraph 21 above, Canada and China, major traders in precursor chemicals, are now reporting their exports to the Board. 

Seizures of all of the substances in Tables I and II, with the exception of isosafrole and piperonal, both substances used in the illicit manufacture of MDMA (Ecstasy), have been reported for 2003 by 43 Governments, and seizures of 65 non-controlled chemicals have been reported by 22 Governments. As the information relating to non-controlled substances is essential to the revision of the adequacy and propriety of the current lists of substances in Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention, as well as to the maintenance of the limited international special surveillance list of non-scheduled substances, the Board encourages Governments to ensure that mechanisms are in place to record information on all chemicals found to be used in the illicit manufacture of drugs and not only those scheduled under the 1988 Convention. 

Licit uses of the substances listed in Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention... 

Knowledge of the most common licit uses of substances in Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention, including the processes and end products in which the substances may be used, is essential to the verification of the legitimacy of orders or shipments. The most common licit uses of those substances reported to the International Narcotics Control Board are as follows ... 

It is important to be able to relate the seizures of precursor chemicals and their prevented diversion into the illicit traffic to those drugs for the illicit manufacture of which they could have been used. To that end, annexes VI and VII contain information on the substances in Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention and on their typical use in the illicit manufacture of drugs. Information on the licit uses of the precursor chemicals is included in annex VIII. To assist the competent authorities in ensuring that their national legislation is in accordance with the relevant provisions of the 1988 Convention, those provisions are included in annex IX. 

The recommended series of action accompanying the special surveillance list of non-scheduled substances were found to be still valid. The Board emphasizes that the monitoring measures associated with the list should be applied through voluntary cooperation with the chemical industry, with no prescriptive regulatory requirement or sanction, in order to highlight the complementary need for more strict control of the substances listed in Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention. As in the past, the Board will continue to distribute the limited international special surveillance list directly to competent authorities. 

The Government of Yemen has amended national legislation and put under control all 23 substances listed in Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention. Individual import and export authorizations from the Ministry of Health are required for each import and export of those substances. 

Most of the countries that are major manufacturers and exporters of substances listed in Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention reported their exports for 2004 on form D. In 2004, 28 countries and territories reported exports of acetic anhydride on form D, an increase of 65 per cent compared with... 

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