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Commission on Narcotic Drugs
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The United Nations has developed a treaty-based programme for international cooperation in controlling the production and trafficking of drugs and in the treatment of drug abuse.
The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), founded in 1946, has as its mandate the supervision of international efforts to control the use and movement of narcotics
and psychotropic substances and to assist the Economic and Social Council in overseeing the implementation of international drug control treaties.
The 53-membered Commission also functions as the governing body of the Fund of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP).
Documentation
The individual documents from the Commission on Narcotic Drugs carry the following symbols:
E/ Economic and Social Council |
-/CN.7 Commission no. 7 = Commission on Narcotic Drugs |
-/year |
-/sequential number |
Ex. E/CN.15/2004/7 Economic and Social Council, Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 2004, document no. 7 |
Information about the structure and work of the Commission and full text documents and reports can be accessed from the official web page of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
Documents in print for the period 1946-1992 are included in the UN collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and in the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
Full text documents after 1992 can be accessed through the UN documentation database - ODS.
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs submits an annual report to the ECOSOC in the documentary series Supplements to the Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. A complete collection of these supplements in print will be found in the UN Collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala and in the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
Recent supplements are posted as Sessional documents at the ECOSOC official Web page, section ECOSOC reports.
A survey of Drug-Related Treaties linking to full text is posted at the official web site of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
Databases and Indexes
Documents are published electronically from 1993- in the United Nations Document System - ODS.
References to documents with links to full texts for recent years can be retrieved through the UNBISnet -
the online catalogue of the UN Libraries in New York and Geneva.
Printed Indexes