The
Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) -
This comprises seven
members of the LCC including the Chairman and Deputy Chairman and is
responsible for translating the directives of the LCC into specific actions
to be executed by various LOOP institutes and coordinated by the Network
Coordinating Institute (NECI). The NECI effectively serves as the
Secretariat of the LOOP and is the direct link between all NACIs and the
Technical Secretariat (TECSEC) of BioNET-INTERNATIONAL.
It should be noted that
NACIs and NIs, though managing their own
affairs, are closely linked through the LCC representative to the
activities of the LOOP, so as to corporately achieve regional self-reliance in
biosystematics.
At the second
meeting of the LCC it was decided to concentrate biosystematic
activity in the region at five Centres
of Excellence CEs), namely: Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad
and Tobago. It was also mandated that the
national reference collections of the other states of the sub-region
be established and/or upgraded.
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