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• Laws: The project will support efforts of some member countries to establish appropriate legislation, rules and regulations on precursor controls. Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan will make written requests on the nature of assistance required.
• SOPs and Working Mechanisms: The project will assist member countries in establishing practical and workable SOPs and working mechanisms. Countries will make written requests on the nature of assistance required.

1. A key objective of the project is to identify and develop suitable training establishments with the required support to enable them to conduct national and regional training courses as well as training of trainers.
2. Separately, the project seeks to identify and develop key laboratories in their respective countries to enable them to conduct similar training.
3. The National Police Academy of Nepal has volunteered to provide its infrastructure for regional training.
4. The National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics (NACEN) and the National Police Academy (NPA) in India have conducted precursor training programs in recent years.

5. Other countries will identify national training establishments, preferably with lab within premises or in the vicinity, to be developed in association with the project, as regional training resource centers.
6. It was suggested that precursor training should be kept closely associated with other drug control training.
7. Bangladesh has a training institute in place, but no materials regarding precursor training. Request will be submitted to UNODC.
8. Member countries will suggest two lists of resource persons - one for training on precursor control and the other for providing lab specific training to law enforcement personnel.
9. India suggested a dispersed approach to training for itself since there were many labs spread all over the country.

1. The project will identify and develop laboratories that can conduct advance tests on precursors (e.g., signature analysis) to enable them to function as a regional resource with the capability of interacting and networking with other regional labs.
2. The Guwahati FSL in India is a potential lab to conduct advanced tests on precursors.
3. Sri Lanka noted that with a modest input their existing lab can be brought up to the requisite level.
4. Other countries will identify appropriate labs to be provided with possible technical and material support by project (in association with the Laboratory and Scientific Section (LASS) UNODC) in order to enable them to conduct advance tests on precursors.
5. These labs shall also be used for training drug control professionals. For this purpose, countries will suggest a list of resource persons.
6. Maldives will revert with a status report on the lab and what assistance is required.
7. Bhutan requested assistance from scratch, within project budgetary resources.

1. No detailed discussion took place.
2. Follow detailed workplan logframe.

1. No detailed discussion took place.
2. Follow detailed workplan logframe

1. Project countries will indicate existing status of arrangements on matters of assistance in precursor control under existing and proposed bilaterals and multilaterals. This shall go a long way in establishing regional co-operation on matters of precursor control.

2. It was agreed that focal points for rapid exchange of information among member countries already exist to enable follow up and backtracking.
3. The earlier phase of the project had established some interaction with SAARC secretariat and with the secretariat of the Colombo Plan. The present project seeks to establish institutional arrangements of networking with similar regional forums. The meeting identified the following forums with which the Project will try to establish or renew institutional mechanisms/linkages: SAARC, Bimstec, Colombo Plan, S/SE Asia Precursor Project, Central Asia Precursor Project, Paris Pact.
4. Given the recent establishment of the Bhutan Narcotics Control Agency, it was noted that the Executive Director of the BNCA is now the focal agency for all counter-narcotics activities in Bhutan, including precursor chemical control.

1. Almost all project countries being signatory to the three UN Conventions and UNGASS 1998 are required to file periodic reports with INCB.
2. UNODC has developed a software "National data base system 4.0" for the purpose. This database, among other activities, also helps in profiling domestic trade on precursors. India noted that this software was not user-friendly and requested the project to find ways of helping them to ensure compliance with their reporting requirements (with or without the use of the NDS).
3. It was agreed that all the information required is available on duly-completed "Form D". The Project will facilitate the countries' compliance in completing this form, where required.

1. The project will assist the countries enlist the support of trade and industry in complying with existing laws and regulations.
2. The project will assist countries in establishing a Voluntary Code of Conduct with trade and industry.
3. UNODC will provide examples of best practice in collaboration with countries of the region (e.g., India, which volunteered to share experiences) on proven and effective approaches for law enforcement to work with the industry and trade.

1. Presently, only a few countries are providing information/intelligence to SDOMD on a regular basis. Even these countries are not providing precursor related information/intelligence to SDOMD.
2. It was agreed that intelligence sharing for effective operational success is built on trust and knowledge of counterparts.
3. The project should therefore be used as a vehicle to bring counterparts together to share information and serve as a potential clearing house for such activities.
4. Should the SDOMD be revitalized under initiatives currently afoot through the SAARC Secretariat, this mechanism will be used to further amplify the impact of the Project's activities in sharing information.

1. Countries will identify national training establishments, preferably with lab within premises or in the vicinity, to be developed in association with the project, as regional training resource centers.
2. Bangladesh would make a written request for precursor control material for the existing training institute.
3. Member countries will suggest two lists of resource persons - one for training on precursor control and the other for providing lab specific training to law enforcement personnel.

1. Countries will identify appropriate labs to be provided with possible technical and material support by project to equip them for conducting advance tests on precursors and to enable them to function as a regional resource with the capability of interacting and networking with other regional labs.
2. Countries will suggest a list of resource persons to enable these labs to be used for training drug control professionals.