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	INCB Activities
		INCB visited Saudi Arabia from 27 to 29 September 2005, to examine the drug control situation in the country and the measures taken since the Board's previous mission in 1992.
		INCB visited Bulgaria from 30 May to 1 June 2005, to examine the drug control situation in the country as well as measures taken by the Government since the last INCB mission in 1995. The mission was conducted by Dr.
		A mission of INCB visited Mexico from 17 to 20 January 2005, to examine measures taken by the Government in drug control since the last INCB mission, in 1996. The mission was conducted by Mr.
	www.incb.org /incb/en/activities.html (5824 words)

	International Narcotics Control Board - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB or Board) is the independent and quasi-judicial control organ for the implementation of the United Nations drug conventions.
		The composition of the Board under the Single Convention was strongly influenced by the 1946 treaty.
		Protocol Amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs concluded at The Hague on 23 January 1912, at Geneva on 11 February 1925 and 19 February 1925, and 13 July 1931, at Bangkok on 27 November 1931 and at Geneva on 26 June 1936.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Narcotics_Control_Board (1257 words)

	PBS - frontline: medicating kids: backlash: united nations' warnings on ritalin
		The Board is also concerned that, contrary to labeling, some doctors prescribe stimulants to children under the age of six and, in many cases, other recommended forms of treatment are not applied.
		The INCB is also concerned that the use of Ritalin is being actively promoted by an influential parent association, which has received significant financial contributions from the preparation's leading United States manufacturer.
		Although proposals to weaken domestic control of methylphenidate were withdrawn in the United States following the alarm raised last year by the Board and others, consumption of the substance is still rising steeply to an estimated 10.5 tonnes in 1996 and a projected 13 tonnes in 1997.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/backlash/un.html (1393 words)

	International Narcotics Control Board zur Schweiz - Jahresbericht 2000
		The Board notes with appreciation the willingness of the Government to maintain a business-like dialogue with it on numerous matters related to the implementation of the inter-national drug control treaties.
		However, the Board wishes to highlight its understanding that those positive developments are the result of complex measures, supported by a sophisticated social and health-care system and impressive financial resources, and not the result of any isolated element of the drug control policy.
		The Board continues to be concerned over the practice not in line with international conventions of establishing drug injection rooms where non-medical use of drugs is taking place.
	www.cannabislegal.de /international/ch-incb.htm (546 words)

	International Narcotics Control Board (INCB): Drug Control in Afghanistan
		Members of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) briefed journalists, permanent missions and NGOs on the drug control situation in Afghanistan at a press briefing, organized by UNIS Vienna at the Vienna International Centre on 12 February 2004.
		To address the problem, he urged the international community, neighbouring countries in particular, to strengthen their cooperation with the Afghan authorities also in the field of law enforcement.
		Emafo reiterated the Board invitation to the international community to support Afghanistan in its drug control efforts, stressing that article 14 of the 1961 Convention will remain in force until the Board is convinced that Afghanistan has complied with the provisions of the Treaty.
	www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/en/pressconf/2004/pb20040212.html (2260 words)

	International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		International Narcotics Strategy Report, April 1993 US Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics Matters Department of State Publication 10047 Released April 1993 The Report is for sale by the Government Printing Office, Superindendent of Documents.
		Among the control measures included is the requirement that exports of certain essential chemicals to cocaine and heroin producing areas, and chemical transit countries, be contingent on prior notification to the receiving state so it may disapprove the transaction, when the receiving state requests this procedure.
		Similiar controls are not imposed on the resale and transhipment of precursor and essential chemicals to third countries, but authorities cooperate with Embassy Singapore's DEA Country Office to monitor such activity in accordance with the U.S. Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /erc/law/INC/1993/07.html (6808 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Searching through the drug report - Monday \| March 5, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Board is described as "an independent and quasi-judicial control organ", and its main task is to monitor the implementation of various international treaties on the control of drugs.
		Given the magnitude of the international drug problem today, it is all too easy to scoff at the efforts of units such as the International Narcotics Control Board.
		Thus, the cynic may be inclined to the view that the Board, for all its research and reporting capabilities, is simply going through the motion of telling us what we already know: namely, that the drug menace is sharply upon us, and that, quite frankly, many societies are overwhelmed and bewildered by this reality.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20010305/cleisure/cleisure2.html (919 words)

	Agenda Item 7(b): International Narcotics Control Board
		Each year the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) issues a report which provides the world's best scorecard on how our governments are doing collectively, as well as individually, in meeting the obligations we have assumed under the international drug control conventions.
		This is an important resolution that requests Member States to provide to the Board estimates of their legitimate requirements for key chemicals and preparations used in the manufacture of synthetic drugs.
		The Board notes in its report this year that traffickers already are seeking out alternative countries in which to order and divert chemicals.
	www.state.gov /p/inl/rls/rm/81678.htm (950 words)

	International control of opioids for medical use
		By definition, 'narcotics' are substances inducing sleep and drowsiness, but in the context of international control the expression 'narcotic drug' is a legal term and means any substance, whether natural or synthetic, listed in Schedules I and II of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.
		Differences may be due to several factors, such as the specific control regulations in a particular country, the development and manufacture of the respective opioid drug by a pharmaceutical industry established in that country or the physicians' prescribing practices with respect to opioid analgesics.
		Considering the efficacy that the international narcotics control system is demonstrating in preventing the diversion of drugs, while at the same time facilitating the development of pain relief programmes, it is important that all agents involved co-operate with the licit control effort.
	www.medsch.wisc.edu /painpolicy/internat/selva.htm (2714 words)

	Erowid Psilocybin Mushroom Vaults : Law : International Legal Status of Psilocybin Mushrooms, by Ananda Schouten
		Letter by H Schaepe of the UN's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) stating that psilocybin mushrooms are not controlled under UN law, 2001.
		A letter from the Senior Inspector of Controlled Substances (Dutch Ministry of Health) in which he explains and communicates the opinion of the International Narcotics Control Board (UN) on Psilocybe mushrooms and preparations thereof, 2004.
		The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is part of the United Nations and is there to see to it that countries follow the treaties on drugs and to explain and advise countries or national authorities how they should interpret the UN treaties.
	www.erowid.org /plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_law11.shtml (1687 words)

	Drug Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Board is increasingly concerned that some States which are signatories to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, are circumventing the mandated controls of cannabis through legal manoeuvres.
		The Board is disturbed by the fact that while developing countries struggle to eradicate cannabis and fight illicit trafficking of the substance, certain developed countries have chosen to tolerate the cultivation, trade and abuse of cannabis on their territory.
		The Board believes that all efforts to control the world drug problem will fail unless there is universal commitment and true implementation of the provisions of the treaties.
	drugandhealthinfo.org /page03.php?ID=10 (699 words)

	INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD ANNUAL REPORT FOCUSES ON NEED TO INTEGRATE DRUG DEMAND, SUPPLY STRATEGIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Board urged the Government to take further action to reduce the number of coffee shops in the country, which are contrary to the provisions of international drug control treaties.
		The Board called on governments to increase sharing of real-time information on seizures and diversions of precursors which are key chemicals used in the manufacture of cocaine, heroin and amphetamine-type stimulants.
		The INCB is an independent and quasi-judicial monitoring body for the implementation of the United Nations international drug conventions.
	i-newswire.com /goprint8762.html (987 words)

	Article 9
		Prior to the 1946 Protocol the members of the Permanent Central Board were appointed by an electoral college consisting of the members of the Council of the League of Nations, a representative of the United States of America and, when Germany was not a member of the League, also a representative of that country.
		The requirement that a Board member should be "connected" with a country belonging to one of the three groups does not necessarily mean that he must have the nationality of the country concerned, although this will generally be the case.
		His connexion, by residence and experience in drug control or economy, should, however, be so close as to justify the expectation that he would be thoroughly familiar with the drug situation in the country concerned.
	www.drugtext.org /library/legal/treat/commentary/article09.htm (4263 words)

	Afghanistan Needs Help to Cut Heroin Production
		Board President Ghodse and Okun met with Security Council President for February, Mexican Ambassador Adolfo Zinser, and suggested that a resolution be adopted urging Afghanistan, as a signatory to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, to live up to its agreement.
		The INCB has estimated that the Taliban held a three- to six-year supply of heroin, some of which "has been unloaded since the war began and plenty of it is still there," he said.
		Each year the INCB issues a wide-ranging report -- often referred to as a report on the "state of the world's drug situation" -- detailing national and international drug control issues from the lack of painkillers to help cancer patients in developing countries to cocaine trafficking.
	www.usembassy.it /file2002_02/alia/a2022601.htm (1064 words)

	United Nations: Iraq Emerging as Transit Point for Narcotics
		Hamid Ghodse, President of the International Narcotics Control Board, said the pattern was similar to what the panel had observed in post-conflict situations elsewhere.
		The International Narcotics Control Board consists of 13 members, who serve in their individual capacity, and monitor compliance with the provisions of the international drug control treaties.
		It claims the board also identifies and helps to correct weaknesses in drug control systems and determines which chemicals used to illicitly manufacture drugs should be under international control.
	www.michnews.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/194/8316/printer (493 words)

	Making it possible for governments to do what they say - includes related articles - International Narcotics Control ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In order to ascertain whether the objectives of the international conventions are being met, the INCB may investigate all aspects of the licit activities related to drugs, as well as government action to counter illicit trafficking and abuse.
		The annual report of INCB also provides a comprehensive picture of the global situation with respect to drug abuse and illicit trafficking and, as it receives good coverage in the media, the associated publicity helps to bring about or accelerate changes that the Board would like to see in particular countries.
		In particular, the international control system on narcotic drugs has succeeded in limiting, for each country and territory and in the world as a whole, the licit cultivation of narcotic plants and licit production, manufacture and distribution of and trade in narcotic drugs to the quantities required for medical and scientific purposes.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1309/is_2_35/ai_54157840 (885 words)

	International Narcotics Control Board Focuses On Street Violence
		International Narcotics Control Board Focuses On Street Violence
		The impact of drugs on street violence and in the home is the focus of the International Narcotics Control Board's 77th session, which opened yesterday in Vienna.
		The 13-member board, an independent group of experts tasked with monitoring U.N. drug control conventions, also plans to review its missions to various countries and the extent to which the governments of El Salvador, Ireland, Paraguay, Russia and Senegal have implemented the board's recommendations from 2000 (U.N. release, May 26).
	www.unwire.org /UNWire/20030527/33935_story.asp (93 words)

	New Secretary of International Narcotics Control Board Takes up Office
		Kouame worked in all the technical units of the Secretariat of the INCB, rising through the ranks to become Chief of the Narcotics Control Unit in 1992.
		Kouame was the then United Nations Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) Regional Director in India from 1995 to 1997, and UNDCP Regional Representative in Kenya from 1997 to 1999.
		The Vienna-based INCB is the independent and quasi-judicial control organ for the implementation of the United Nations drug conventions, established in 1968 by the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961.
	www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/pressrels/2004/unisnar856.html (392 words)

	Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control
		The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) monitors signatories' compliance with the UN Conventions.
		In recent years, the INCB has also taken on the role of assisting governments in monitoring chemical control shipments and adopting a surveillance list of chemicals that can be substituted in the process of developing amphetamine-type stimulants and other substances that are abused.
		MDMA is included as a controlled substance under the 1971 UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances and in 1992, we worked with our international colleagues to ensure that several of the chemicals used in the manufacture of MDMA were added to Table 1 of the 1988 UN Convention.
	drugcaucus.senate.gov /ecstasy00beers.html (2165 words)

	International Narcotics Control Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The INCB has a critically important supportive role in pain management and palliative care throughout the world because it administers the international system that controls the availability of opioid analgesics including the pain medications recommended by WHO as essential for cancer pain relief.
		The Board and its Secretariat have long collaborated with WHO and have themselves recognized that pain is inadequately managed, that opioids are insufficiently available, and that there are barriers which often involve irrational fears of opioids among governments, the public and health-care professionals.
		The Board used the survey data provided by the Center to conclude that the problem was serious and that few governments had acted to improve the situation.
	www.medsch.wisc.edu /painpolicy/publicat/00report/section_iii.html (393 words)

	International Board Discusses Impact Of Narcotics On Economies
		The International Narcotics Control Board, an independent body whose members are elected by the U.N. Economic and Social Council, yesterday began a 12-day meeting in Vienna at which members are to discuss the effects of illicit drug cultivation, trade and abuse on economic development.
		The board is also expected to adopt an annual report that highlights development.
		The board has sent missions to 16 countries since it last met in May and will review reports on those missions at the current meeting.
	www.unwire.org /UNWire/20021105/30130_story.asp (172 words)

	Common Sense for Drug Policy: International Drug Policy Reform News
		According to another of INCB's news releases on the report, "The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) sounds the alarm on the rapid increase in the illicit manufacture of methamphetamine, in its Annual Report released today (1 March 2006), in Vienna.
		According to the INCB, "Following the monitoring of nearly 2,000 shipments of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine in licit international trade in 2005, the Board was able to zero in on a series of suspicious shipments of the two substances.
		INCB's annual reports are available online from their website, and the new report can also be downloaded directly by clicking here.
	www.csdp.org /news/news/intupdate.htm (15366 words)

	The Road to Vienna: International Narcotics Control Board Annual Report Attacks Reformers, Reformers Scratch Back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), enforcer of the global drug prohibition regime embodied in the United Nations Single Conventions of 1961, 1971, and 1988, issued its annual report this week, and it has clearly identified the enemy: the global drug reform movement.
		With an international movement to reform or repeal the UN conventions growing in breadth and strength, the UN narcocrats are clearly hunkering down for a battle in Vienna in April -- and beyond.
		Beyond laying into the INCB report, reformers are looking forward to the April meeting in Vienna, where the UN's Commission on Narcotic Drugs will evaluate progress at the halfway point in the UN's 10-year plan to make the planet drug-free by 2008 and set direction for the next five years.
	www.stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/276/roadtovienna.shtml (1385 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| US thrown off second UN body
		It lost its seat on the International Narcotics Control Board in a secret ballot by members of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (Ecosoc) - the same organisation which earlier voted the US off the UN's Human Rights Commission.
		The International Narcotics Board monitors the manufacture and sale of opium derivatives like morphine, stimulants, and other drugs which can be illegally exploited.
		Former US Drugs Tsar Barry McCaffrey said America played a "dominant role" in narcotics control, and its absence from the board would be felt by the rest of the world.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1318310.stm (247 words)

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