his section presents information related to the WANA Seed Network. It regularly updates the progress of Network activities and reports on the meetings of Steering Committee and WANA Seed Council.

Steering Committee Meeting
The 8th Steering Committee meeting of the WANA Seed Network was held on 27-28 March 2001 in Cairo, Egypt. The Committee members from Cyprus, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Syria attended the meeting. The GTZ seed projects in collaboration with the Central Administration for Seed Production (CASP) and Central Administration for Seed Testing and Certification (CASC) hosted the meeting and provided financial support.

Network Publications
The three Network publications namely; WANA Variety Catalogue, WANA Field and Seed Standards Catalogue and WANA Seed Directory are being revised based on the decisions of the Council meeting in 1999. The draft WANA seed certification scheme presented to the Council has been translated into Arabic and distributed to member countries for reviewing in mid 2001. The catalogue on weed species is now in print and will be ready for circulation to member countries and national seed programs.

Focus on Seed Programs
Since 1994, 15 issues of the 'Focus' series on national seed programs of member countries were published. The 'focus' on Algeria is now in preparation and that leaves only Iran and Saudi Arabia to complete the series. The Network Council decided to update already published 'Focuses' to reflect recent developments in national seed programs. All member countries are working to revise the documents. It is envisaged to receive all revisions from member countries and to publish the updated version in 2001.

Change of Network Representatives
Dr Mohamed Abdel Farag Khamees has been officially appointed as the Director General of Seed Administration in Sudan. Dr Khamees worked in the former National Seed Administration as Plant Protection Specialist for several years before it was reorganized into the Seed Administration focusing on quality control and certification.
        In September 2000, Mr Abdo Mohammed Al Saggaf succeeded Mr Ahmed Abu Arigal as Chairman and Director General of the General Seed Multiplication Corporation in Yemen. The Secretariat has sent letters to both Dr Khamees and Mr Al Saggaf to replace the previous Country Representatives of Sudan and Yemen, respectively.

New E-mail Addresses
The Secretariat has been informed that there are changes of e-mail addresses for the Country Representatives of Djibouti, Morocco and Turkey.

The new addresses are:

   (a) Mr Rachid  Hersi (Djibouti): empres@intnet.dj
   (b) Mr Mohamed Tourkmani (Morocco): Tourkmani@francite.com
   (c) Mr Bahattin Bouzkurt bbozkurt@tarim.gov.tr