Guidelines for the WHO Review of Dependence-Producing Psychoactive Substances for International Control (WHO/EDM, 2000, 22 p.): VII. Abbreviations and definitions

Guidelines for the WHO Review of Dependence-Producing Psychoactive Substances for International Control (WHO/EDM, 2000, 22 p.)

		(introductory text...)
		I. Mandate
		II. Underlying principles
		III. Provisions of the conventions
		VI. WHO review procedure
		V. Communication of WHO recommendations
		VI. Publication of documents related to the WHO review
		VII. Abbreviations and definitions
		Appendix 1: Excerpts from the UN drug control conventions
		Appendix 2: Resolution 1(S-VIII) of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs1

VII. Abbreviations and definitions

CND	The Commission on Narcotic Drugs, a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Expert Committee	In this document, "the Expert Committee" refers to the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence. The First World Health Assembly decided, by resolution WHA1.25 (1948), to establish the Expert Committee on Habit-Forming Drugs which, since its sixteenth meeting (1968), is named the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence.

INCB	International Narcotics Control Board; designated as "Board" in the text of the 1988 Convention.

Interpol	International Criminal Police Organization

Member State	A State which is a member of WHO.

Narcotic drug	Any of the substances in Schedules I and II of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.

Notification	A formal communication addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations by a Party to an international drug control convention or by WHO, or by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to a Party to an international drug control convention or to WHO. In the context of the present guidelines, reference to a notification means a notification relating to the scheduling of a substance under the provisions of either Article 3 of the Single Convention or Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.

Party	A State which has become a Party to an international drug control convention, through signature, ratification, accession, or succession.

Psychoactive substance	Any substance, natural or synthetic, or any natural substance material, which has psychoactive properties. In the present guidelines the term psychoactive substance is used also for those substances which are at present not under international control.

Psychotropic substance	Any substance, natural or synthetic, in Schedule I, II, III or IV of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971.

The 1961 Convention	Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol.

The 1971 Convention	Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971.

The 1988 Convention	United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988.

UNDCP	United Nations International Drug Control Programme