annual report 2007

Foreword

Explanatory notes

Chapter I
The principle of proportionality and drug-related offences
A. The principle of proportionality
B. Proportionality and the international drug control conventions
C. Proportionate prosecution, sentencing and alternatives
D. Equality before the law
E. Teamwork involving thejusticeand health-care systems
F. Recommendations
Chapter II
Operation of the international drug control system
A. Narcotic drugs
B. Psychotropic substances
C. Precursors
D. Promoting universal application of the international drug control treaties
E. Measures to ensure the implementation oft he international drug control treaties
F. Special topics
Chapter III
Analysis of the world situation
A. Africa
B. Americas
Central America and the Caribbean
North America
South America
C. Asia
East and South-East Asia
South Asia
West Asia
D. Europe
E. Oceania
Chapter IV

Recommendations to Governments, the United Nations and other relevant international and regional organizations
Recommendations to Governments
Recommendations to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and to the World Health Organization
Recommendations to other relevant international organizations

Annexes

I. Regional groupings used in the report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2007
II. Current membership of the International Narcotics Control Board

INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2007

Foreword

Explanatory notes

Annexes