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News - CITES Notifications Conference of Parties | Standing Committee | Plants Committee | Animals Committee | EC CITES Committee | EC CITES Scientific Review Group | CITES notifications | SUN meetings | Link meetings | Other news | Research projects | Parliamentary Questions | Biennial Report CITES Notifications Notifications provide information to CITES Parties
and others on topics relevant to the implementation of the Convention. All CITES Secretariat Notifications are
posted on the CITES web site. Summaries of the content of the more recent
notifications are listed below. Notification
2007/030 – Trade in sturgeons and paddlefish Informs Parties of a number of issues arising
from the CoP 14 amendments to the Resolutions (Res Conf 12.7. Rev CoP 14) and Decisions
(14.118-14.125) on the Conservation of and trade in sturgeons and paddlefish:
Notification 2007/29 – Elephants and ivory
trade questionnaire Informs Parties of the
questionnaire in relation to the Action plan for
the control of trade in elephant ivory that was amended and adopted at the 14th
meeting of the Conference of the Parties (Decision 13.26 Rev CoP 14). As one of the Parties identified in the ETIS report as being affected by the illicit trade in ivory, the UK is requested to complete and submit the questionnaire to the Secretariat by 31 December 2007. Notification 2007/28 – New CITES
Appendices in effect after the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties Informs Parties that the new Appendices, as adopted at the 14th CoP, have now been made available in PDF format on the CITES website. An html version of the new
appendices will be posted on Notification 2007/027 – United States of Informs Parties that the US
Fish and Wildlife Service have updated their federal regulations which implement CITES. Although the new regulation
reflects the way the The
new regulation can be viewed at www.fws.gov/international
and will take effect on Notification 2007/026 – E-commerce of specimens of
CITES-listed species Informs
Parties that it was agreed that this subject should be studied further and two decisions
were adopted. The
first of theses requests that the Secretariat seeks information on this from the Parties.
Therefore they are invited to submit information relating to: ¨
The
scale and nature of wildlife trade conducted via the Internet; ¨
Any
real or perceived problems relating to such trade, including illicit trade; ¨
The
nature and effectiveness of any measures that Parties have taken to regulate the trade in
wildlife; ¨
Any
changes in trade routes, species in trade and methods of shipment that have been observed. Please
supply all information by Notification
2007/025 - Control of operations that breed Appendix I animals species for commercial
purposes.
These taxa are already included
in the Secretariat’s Register. Providing no objection from a Party has been
received within 90 days (by Notification
2007/024 - Summary records of the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties Informs
Parties that the summary records of the fourth, fifth and sixth plenary sessions of CoP 14
were not adopted by the parties during the meeting. The
draft summary of these sessions can be found on the CITES website, and participants in the
meeting are invited to inform the Secretariat of any further necessary corrections by All
summary records with amendments will be revised and displayed on the CITES website. Notification 2007/023 - Updates to the CITES
Directory and Registers Informs Parties of the
following updates:
Detailed changes can be
found in the notification. Notification 2007/022 Amendments to Appendices
I and II of the Convention Informs Parties of the
following amendments to Appendices I and II, agreed at the 14th Conference of
the Parties. Specific details of the
amendments can be found within the notification
which includes: a. New text to be included in the Interpretation
section of the Appendices on the inclusion of all parts and derivatives of a listed
species, unless an annotation indicates whether only certain parts and derivatives of the
species are included. b. Species deleted from Appendix I c. Species deleted from Appendix II d. The transfer of taxa from Appendix I to II e. The transfer of taxa from Appendix II to I f. The inclusion of taxa into Appendix I g. The inclusion of taxa into Appendix II h. The new annotations to the populations of Loxodonta Africana
in Appendix II i. The new annotation to the population of Vicugna vicugna of j. Replacing the annotations to certain taxa requiring
certain parts and derivatives to be specified k. The new annotation to Orchidacea sp. In Appendix II l. The annotations for Taxus chinensis, Taxus
fuana and Taxus sumatrana have all
been deleted, while the new annotation to Taxus cuspidata is replaced. In
addition the Appendices will be updated with the :
The
Secretariat shall publish amendments adopted at CoP14 shortly, and these shall enter into
force on Notification 2007/021 - Appendix III Informs Parties of the
inclusion of Dipteryx panamensis (the Mountain Almond tree, commercial name Tonka
bean wood) into Appendix III, by the Government of Nicaragua This shall come into affect
on 13th September and a revised edition of the CITES Appendices will be placed
on the CITES website prior to this
date. Notification 2007/20 – Control of
operations that breed Appendix-I animal species for commercial purposes Informs Parties of changes
to the Register of operations that breed Appendix I animal species for commercial
purposes. The Register will include captive
breeding operations in: providing no objection from
a Party has been received within 90 days (by Notification 2007/019
- Interactive training course
for enforcement officers and information module for prosecutors and the judiciary on
CD-ROM Informs
Parties of a new interactive training course and information module aimed at officers,
custom officials and government officials. It provides information on the operation of the
Convention, legislation and ethics, as well as a module for prosecutors and the judiciary.
Copies
of the interactive CD-ROM maybe requested from the Secretariat. Notification 2007/018 - New edition of the
Checklist of CITES species and annotated CITES Appendices and reservations Asks
Parties for feedback on the current edition of the Checklist of CITES species and
annotated CITES Appendices and reservations (2005 Version), in order that changes may be
considered for the forthcoming edition. Following
the 14th Conference of the Parties, the Secretariat, in collaboration with
UNEP-WCMC will be preparing a new version to replace the 2005 version. Notification 2007/017 -
Updates to the CITES Directory and Registers Informs Parties of the following updates:
Detailed changes can be found in the Notification. Notification No: 2007/016 – Export Quotas
for 2007: Explanatory Notes The Secretariat has published on its website
details of export quotas for CITES-listed species that Parties have established for 2007. There are four types of quota:
The 2007 quotas for
types 1-3 can be found at: http://www.cites.org/common/quotas/2007/ExportQuotas2007.pdf The 2007 quota for Acipenseriformes can be
found at: http://www.cites.org/common/quotas/2007/Sturgeon2007.pdf Further explanatory details can be found in
the notification. Notification No: 2007/015 – Informs Parties of the possibility that some
CITES permits and a security stamp have been stolen from the CITES Management Authority of
Malaysia for If a Management Authority discovers any of
these permits or the security stamp, they are asked to immediately contact the CITES
Management Authority of Malaysia in Notification No: 2007/014 – Reminds Parties of Alert number 22 (issued in
April 2006) which described invalid permits that had alledgedly been issued by the CITES
Management Authority of Guinea and were used to facilitate illicit trade, particularly
involving live birds Illicit trade using such documents appears to
be continuing and Parties are reminded to
carefully check that the correct information is contained in Any permit or certificate that specifies any other office should be rejected. In addition any specimens that are covered by such
a document should be seized. Any suspect CITES documents apparently
originating from Notification
No: 2007/013 - Updates to the CITES Directory and Registers Informs the Parties of the changes made to the
data sheets of the Directory sent with Notification to the Parties No. 2000/048 of a) Register of operations that breed Appendix-I
animal species for commercial purposes. b) Register of scientific institutions entitled
to the exemption provided by Article VII, The data sheets, registers and these updates can be viewed on the CITES web page. Notification
No: 2007/012 - Appendices I, II and III Further to notification 2007/007, this
notification informs the Parties of the exclusion of Psittacula krameri from the Appendix-II listing of Psittaciformes spp. The Secretariat sincerely regrets that this was
not done when the new edition of the Appendices valid from A copy of the newly amended Appendices I, II and III can be viewed on the CITES web page. Notification
No: 2007/011 - Specific reservations Informs the parties of the withdrawal of Psittacula
krameri (Rose Ringed Parakeet) from Appendix
III by These reservations ceased to be in effect on The most recent version of the ‘Specific reservations entered by Parties’ is available on the CITES website. Notification
No: 2007/010 - Proposals to amend Appendices I and II Provisional
assessments by the Secretariat Informs the Parties of the provisional
assessments prepared by the Secretariat for the list of proposals to amend Appendices I
and II (communicated in Notification to the Parties No. 2007/008). This information is being communicated to the
Parties at this early stage in order to help them in making their own assessment of the
proposals, to stimulate discussion and to encourage further clarification to be provided
where appropriate. Parties are reminded that comments
on the proposals relating to marine species received before the Provisional assessments by the Secretariat Notification No: 2007/009 - Updates to the
CITES Directory and Registers Informs the Parties of changes to the data
sheets of the Directory sent with Notification to the Parties No. 2000/048 of Also informs the parties of updates to the
Register of scientific institutions entitled to the exemption provided by Article VII,
paragraph 6, of the Convention. All these changes can be viewed on the CITES website. Notification
No: 2007/008 - Proposals to amend Appendices I and II at the 14th meeting of the
Conference of the Parties Informs parties that the deadline for the submission of proposals to amend
Appendices I and II for consideration at the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties
was Proposals to amend the Appendices Notification No. 2007/007 -
Appendix III Informs the Parties of new species
that Also informs Parties that the
Government of Ghana has withdrawn several species from Appendix III. These species can be
viewed on the CITES web page at: www.cites.org Informs the Parties of changes made
to the data sheets of the Directory sent with Notification to the Parties No. 2000/048 of Informs of the distribution to Parties of
sample import / export documents relating to different countries. Hard copies of the
documents are being distributed to HMRC, Scientific Authorities, Crown Dependencies and Informs the Parties that at its 21st meeting ( The following five countries have failed to
reply to the Standing Committee after recommendations were sent to 26 countries
categorized as 'of possible concern' on 16 and 17 August 2005, with a deadline of three
months for implementation. Therefore the Standing Committee recommends that all Parties suspend
trade in Falco cherrug from Also informs the Parties that at its 54th
meeting, the Standing Committee also agreed to change its current recommendation to
Parties not to accept imports of specimens of Saiga tatarica from Parties are reminded that the complete list of
Parties subject to a recommendation to The present Notification replaces Notification
to the Parties No. 2006/072. Informs the parties of the need for the Secretariat to be provided with the citations (and
ordering information) of checklists that will be nominated for standard references at
least six months before the meeting of the
Conference of the Parties. In compliance with this recommendation, the
Nomenclature Committee has submitted the citations of checklists that will be nominated
for taxonomic standard references at the 14th meeting of the Conference of the
Parties (to be held in Notification
No. 2007/002 – Security Stamps Informs which Parties will continue to use the
old standard security stamp after 31st of December 2003. See notification. Notification
No. 2007/001 – List of Valid Notifications Informs
parties that the list of all Notifications to the Parties remaining valid on Notification No. 2006/077 – Monitoring of
illegal trade in Ivory These reports may be
submitted for inclusion in ETIS in printed form or electronically to the CITES Secretariat
for passing to TRAFFIC, or directly to TRAFFIC. To
ensure that any such information will be included in the upcoming analysis of ETIS data
for the 14th CoP Parties should ensure
their submissions reach TRAFFIC by This Notification
replaces Notifications to the Parties No. 1999/92 of Notification No. 2006/076 – Fourteenth
Meeting of the Conference of the Parties general Information The 14th
meeting of the conference of the Parties (CoP14) will be held in Please view the
Notification for full details on:
Notification No. 2006/075 – Updates to the
CITES Directory and Registers Please look on www.cites.org for the changes to the data sheets of the
Directory sent with Notification to the Parties No. 2000/048 of Notification 2006/074 - Reissue of a
recommendation to suspend trade - Annual reports The present Notification is a reissue of the
part of previous recommendations that remain in effect and replaces Notifications
2002/064, 2003/006, 2003/016, 2003/039 and 2003/043. Parties are reminded that the complete list of
Parties subject to a recommendation to suspend trade is available on the CITES website
under Resources / Reference lists. Please see http://www.cites.org/eng/notif/2006/E074.pdf
for further information. Notification
2006/073 - Reissue of a recommendation to suspend trade The Secretariat informs Parties that the
Standing Committee recommends that they suspend commercial trade in specimens of
CITES-listed species to and from The present Notification is a reissue of the
part of previous recommendations that remain in effect and replaces Notifications
2004/024, 2004/043 and 2004/047. Parties are reminded that the complete list of
Parties subject to a recommendation to Please see http://www.cites.org/eng/notif/2006/E073.pdf
for further information. Notification
2006/072 - Implementation of Resolution Conf. 12.8 (Rev. CoP13) Recommendations of the
Standing Committee At the 54th Standing Committee
meeting in Geneva (Oct 2006), the Standing Committee decided to recommend that all Parties
suspend imports of all specimens of Cycadaceae, Stangeriaceae and Zamiaceae from Madagascar, Mozambique and Viet Nam
until the Plants Committee's recommendations designed to ensure the correct implementation
of Article IV, paragraphs 2 (a) and 3, had been complied with. At the same meeting, the Standing Committee
decided to withdraw its recommendations that all Parties suspend imports of specimens of Pericopsis
elata from the Please see http://www.cites.org/eng/notif/2006/E072.pdf
for further information. This notification replaces notification
2006/034. Notification 2006/071 – Election of
regional members of the Standing Committee and of the Plants and Animals Committees Informs the parties
that the election of regional members and alternate regional members of the Standing
Committee and of the Animals and Plants Committees takes place at regional meetings during
the regular meetings of the Conference of the Parties. The guidelines
regarding procedure to be followed for the selection of members are contained in
Resolution Conf 11.1 (Rev CoP13). In
particular it is to be noted that candidatures for membership of the above committees
should be submitted 120 days before the meeting at which the elections are to take place
(by With regards to
membership of the Standing Committee candidatures should be submitted through the
Secretariat. For membership to the Plants and
Animals Committee, the conference has indicated that proposals for candidates as
representatives should be supported by the relevant governments to ensure they have the
means to undertake their activities. The
Conference of the Parties further decided that the names of the candidates and their curricula vitae should be circulated to the Parties
of the region concerned. A list of the
current regional members of the Standing Committee and of the Plants and Animals committee
can be found at Notifications to the Parties at
http://www.cites.org/eng/notif/2006/E071.pdf. Notification
2006/070 - CITES Great Ape Enforcement Task Force Informs the parties that the CITES Great Ape
Enforcement Task Force met at UNEP headquarters, Gigiri, Kenya, from 31 October to 2
November 2006. During its discussions, it was noted that insufficient information is
available regarding the nature of such trade. Consequently, the Task Force members
designed a country profile form to gather information from the Parties. The form is to be circulated via CITES,
UNEP/UNESCO Great Ape Survival Project (GRASP), ICPO-Interpol and World Customs
Organization channels. The resulting information will then be collated and analysed by the
CITES Secretariat, ICPO-Interpol and the World Customs Organization to prepare a briefing
document to help relevant law enforcement agencies to combat illicit trade in great apes. The Task Force believes that consumer and
transit States are also likely to have valuable information and, thus, encourages all
countries where illicit trade in great apes takes place to supply information under any of
the relevant sections of the form (see http://www.cites.org/eng/notif/2006/E070A.pdf
for form). Submissions of information should be made to
the CITES Secretariat by Notification 2006/069 - Assistance from Project
Seahorse Informs the parties
that a web-based project designed to assist parties in implementing the Appendix II
listing for seahorses (Hippocampus spp.) is
being developed by Project Seahorse. Project
Seahorse is an academic marine research and management NGO.
Parties will be
contacted in order to develop a central web-based set of information and resources. This will be available to all arties to aid in
seahorse identification, distribution, biology and trade.
The website will be operational in 2007 and will initially be in English. The Secretariat
invites parties to support the Project Seahorse initiative, which could become a model for
providing species specific information and capacity building resources. Notification
2006/068 - Control of operations that breed Appendix-I animal species for commercial
purposes Informs the parties that the secretariat has
been requested to include information concerning a captive-breeding operation in Also informs the parties that the secretariat
has also been requested to include information concerning a captive breeding operation in In accordance with the provisions of Resolution
Conf. 12.10 (Rev. CoP13), Annex 2, the operations will be included in the
Secretariat’s Register 90 days after the date of this Notification, i.e. Notification
2006/066 - Publications of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Informs Parties on the release, availability
and discount on the 32nd and 33rd
editions of the ‘Live
Animals Regulations’ and of the fifth and sixth editions of the ‘Perishable Cargo Manual.’ The ‘Live Animals Regulations’, 33rd edition,
is effective from Accepted by CITES and recognized as the
international standard for transport of animals by air, the IATA Live Animals
Regulations (LAR) is an essential source of information on how to ship animals safely,
humanely and cost-effectively. It specifies the minimum requirements for the international
transport of animals, and indicates what precautions airlines, shippers, cargo agents and
animal-care professionals should take on the ground and in the air. The Perishable
Cargo Manual is the reference guide for the preparation, packaging and handling of
perishable goods to be transported by air. This manual has a special section about
requirements and instructions for plants transportation, including cooling, shipping
temperatures and storage guidelines. This new edition contains inter alia a new chapter on ornamental plants
such as cut flowers. Notification
2006/065 - Enforcement-Related Contact Information Urges Parties that haven’t submitted to the
secretariat, as per decision 13.84, contact details of each of their relevant national law
enforcement agencies responsible for investigating and prosecuting illegal trafficking in
wild fauna and flora, to do so as soon as possible. (See
notification for a copy of the form to complete.) Notification
2006/064 – Security Stamps Informs which Parties will continue to use the
old standard security stamp after 31st of December 2003. Notification
2006/063 – Fossil Corals Advises the parties to define the fossil
specimens that are not subject of the provisions of the Convention. Directed to Parties 13.95 The Parties that are involved in the trade in
stony corals should, by the end of 2005, determine how they will interpret the
annotation exempting fossil corals from the provisions of the Convention and provide this
interpretation to the Secretariat for distribution to the Parties. In compliance with Decision 13.96, the Animals
Committee analysed the information received from Parties. Its report of the analysis was
submitted to the Secretariat and is provided as an Annex to this Notification, in
accordance with Decision 13.97. Notification
2006/062 – Periodic review of animal species included in the CITES Appendices 1. Species
selected for periodic review at the 22nd meeting of the Animals Committee (AC22, 2. Species selected for periodic review at the
15th and 16th meetings Advises the parties
that the Animals Committee formulated recommendations The states that are categorized as ‘urgent
concern’ include: the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Mongolia, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Until further notice, these states have suspended the issuance of export permits for Falco cherrug. Parties are requested to inform the Secretariat if an export permit for specimens of Falco cherrug from one of these countries is presented to them. Notification 2006/060 – CITES Website
discussion forum Informs parties a new forum has been created in
order to facilitate informal discussions and exchange of information among Parties and
other members of the CITES community. The forum can be located on the CITES website under
‘Resources’. Here, members of specific CITES groups can place messages or
documents for other members of the group to view and respond to. Membership to this section of the website is
subject to approval. Membership can either be applied for online or be provided by a forum
manager (e.g. the chairman of a working group or a committee) or an administrator (a
Secretariat staff member). In the first case, the user creates his own account directly,
including his username and password. A user may be provided access to more than one forum. Forums have been created for CITES Management
Authorities and for Scientific Authorities. Parties are welcome to join these forums,
however access to them will only be granted to staff of CITES Management Authorities and
Scientific Authorities. Notification
2006/059 – Tagging of markhor (Capra falconeri)
trophies Informs parties that
there is a recommendation that each markhor hunting trophy exported from Pakistan has a
self-locking tag indicating the calendar year to which the quota applies. The CITES management
have found that owing to a quota of 12 trophies per year the production of tags is not
economically viable. The Pakistani authorities
have suggested at using previously acquired tags for export bearing CITESPKFL followed by
a 7-digit number. Notification 2006/058 – Electronic
permitting systems In order to obtain
information to implement the decision agreed at CoP 13 in Bangkok (2004) the secretariat
requests those Parties that have developed or are developing electronic permitting systems
to advise it of the status of those systems no later than the 1st December 2006. Notification 2006/057 – Transmission of
documents Annexed to this
Notification is the Secretariat’s annual
report for the year 2004. Annual reports of
the Secretariat are also available on the CITES website under Discover/CITES
Secretariat/Annual reports. Suggestions from
Parties on ways to improve current reports are urged from the Secretariat. Notification 2006/056 – Updates to the
CITES Directory and Registers (Please refer to Notification) The Secretariat
wishes to inform the Parties of the changes to data sheets of the Directory sent with
Notification to the Parties No. 2000/048 and the updates to the Register of Scientific
institutions. Notification 2006/055 – Review of
Significant Trade – Strombus gigas (queen
conch) This Notification replaces Notification
2003/057 (29/09/03). Notification 2006/034 (12/05/06) informed
Parties about Standing Committee recommendations concerning 16 Range States where the
Animals Committee (AC) had determined that Strombus gigas was of
‘possible’ or ‘urgent’ concern in the context of its Review of
Significant Trade (RST). The AC has also made long-standing
recommendations extending beyond the RST, in particular inviting all Range States of S.
gigas to consider and implement the recommendations of the International Queen Conch
Initiative (detailed in Annex 1). Relevant
Parties and Range States are also advised to address the concerns and take the measures
identified in Notification 2003/057 (detailed in Annex 2). Notification 2006/054 – Control of
operations that breed Appendix I animal species for commercial purposes Informs the Parties
that the Secretariat has been requested to include in the “Register of operations
that breed Appendix I animal species for commercial purposes” information concerning
captive breeding operations in the following countries: Colombia – Crocodylus acutus (American crocodile) These are taxa that
are already included in the Secretariat’s register. In accordance with Resolution
Conf. 12.10 (Rev CoP13) Annex 2 these operations will be included in the register 90 days
from 17th October unless the Secretariat receives an objection from a Party. Notification 2006/052 – Proposals to
amend Appendices I & II – Consultation with Range States Informs the Parties
that in accordance with Resolution Conf 8.21 (consultation with Range States on proposals
to amend Appendices I and II), the deadline for amendments for consideration at the 14th
meeting of the COP was By this deadline
the Secretariat had received a proposal from A copy of this
proposal can be found at: http://www.cites.org/eng/notif/2006/E052.pdf Interested Parties
are invited to send their comments to Notification 2006/051 – Monitoring of
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