Decisions of the Conference of the Parties to CITES
in effect after the 15th meeting

Introduction

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Administrative matters
 Financing and budgeting of the Secretariat
 and of meetings of the Conference of the Parties
15.1 to 15.4 Non-payment of contributions
Strategic matters
14.28 (Rev. CoP15) to 14.30 (Rev. CoP15) Cooperation between Parties and promotion of multilateral measures
15.5 to 15.7 CITES and livelihoods
15.8 National wildlife trade policy reviews
 Scientific committees
15.9 Rules of Procedure of the Animals and Plants Committees
14.9 Manual for regional representatives of the scientific committees
 Cooperation with other organizations
15.10 Post-2010 biodiversity targets
15.11 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership
15.12 to 15.14 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
15.15 to 15.17 Climate change
15.18 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
15.19 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation of the Convention on Biological Diversity
15.20 Funding for projects related to species conservation and management
 Capacity building
12.79 Non-commercial loan, donation or exchange of museum and herbarium specimens
12.90 to 12.93 Capacity-building programme for science-based establishment and implementation of voluntary national export quotas for Appendix-II species
14.10 Support to Master’s programmes
14.11 Regional cooperation and coordination
14.12 & 14.13 Virtual college
15.21 & 15.22 Capacity building
15.23 & 15.25 Non-detriment findings
15.26 & 15.27 Non-detriment findings for timber, medicinal plants and agarwood
Interpretation and implementation of the Convention
14.19 Review of Resolutions
13.93 (Rev. CoP15) Review of the Appendices
15.28 to 15.30 Criteria for the inclusion of species in Appendices I and II
15.31 Annotations to the Appendices for plants
15.32 & 15.33 Review of annotations for Cactaceae and Orchidaceae: herbarium specimens
15.34 Review of annotations for Cactaceae and Orchidaceae: evaluation of trade in finished products
14.133 & 14.134 (Rev. CoP15) Orchids: annotation for species included in Appendix II
14.149, 15.35 & 14.148 (Rev. CoP15) Tree species: annotations for species included in Appendices II and III
 Review of Significant Trade
13.67 (Rev. CoP14) Review of Significant Trade
15.36 & 15.37 Review of Significant Trade in Cistanche deserticola, Dioscorea deltoidea, Nardostachys grandiflora, Picrorhiza kurrooa, Pterocarpus santalinus, Rauvolfia serpentina and Taxus wallichiana
 Compliance and enforcement
15.38 to 15.41 National laws for implementation of the Convention
14.37 (Rev. CoP15) & 14.38 (Rev. CoP15) National reports
14.39 (Rev. CoP15) to 14.41 (Rev. CoP15) Reporting on trade in artificially propagated plants
15.42 & 15.43 Gathering and analysis of data on illegal trade
15.44 & 15.45 Illegal trade in great apes
15.46 to 15.49 Asian big cats
 Trade control and marking
14.48 (Rev. CoP15) & 15.50 Introduction from the sea
15.51 Ranching and trade in ranched specimens of species transferred from
Appendix I to Appendix II
15.52 & 15.53 Production systems for specimens of CITES-listed species
15.54 to 15.56 Electronic permitting
14.54 (Rev. CoP15) Purpose codes on CITES permits and certificates
15.57 & 15.58 E-commerce of specimens of CITES-listed species
15.59 & 15.60 Transport of live specimens
14.61 (Rev. CoP15) Physical inspection of timber shipments
15.61 to 15.63 Standard nomenclature
15.64 & 15.65 Identification of CITES-listed corals in trade
15.66 Identification of worked specimens of black coral (Antipatharia) and parts thereof in trade
15.67 to 15.69 Use of taxonomic serial numbers
 Exemptions and special trade provisions
14.64 (Rev. CoP15) Personal and household effects
 Species trade and conservation
 Fauna
14.91 & 14.93 (Rev. CoP15) to 14.97 (Rev. CoP15) Saiga antelope
14.66 (Rev. CoP15), 14.68, 14.69 & 15.70 Conservation of and trade in tigers and other Appendix-I Asian big cat species
14.81 Great whales
15.71 to 15.73 Conservation of and trade in African and Asian rhinoceroses
13.26 (Rev. CoP15) & 14.76 to 14.79 (Rev. CoP15) Elephant conservation
15.74 Trade in elephant specimens
14.82 to 14.85 Grey parrot
15.75 to 15.78 Snake trade and conservation management
15.79 to 15.83 Tortoises and freshwater turtles
15.84 Hawksbill turtle
15.85 Sharks and stingrays
15.86 to 15.88 Humphead wrasse
14.100 (Rev. CoP15) Sea cucumbers
14.73 & 14.74 (Rev. CoP15) Bushmeat
 Flora
15.89 Assessment of trade in epiphytic cacti and review of listing of Cactaceae spp. in Appendix II
14.131 (Rev. CoP15) Euphorbia spp.
15.90 Aniba rosaeodora
15.91 to 15.93 Working Group on the Bigleaf Mahogany and Other Neotropical Timber Species
14.146 (Rev. CoP15) Cedrela odorata, Dalbergia retusa, Dalbergia granadillo and Dalbergia stevensonii
14.137,
14.138 (Rev. CoP15),
14.140, 14.141, 15.94,
14.144 (Rev. CoP15)
& 15.95
Agarwood-producing taxa
15.96 Bulnesia sarmientoi
15.97 & 15.98 Madagascar
Annexes
Annex 1 Terms of reference for an evaluation of the Review of Significant Trade
Annex 2 Action plan for the control of trade in elephant ivory
Annex 3 Working Group on the Bigleaf Mahogany and Other Neotropical Timber Species
Annex 4 Action plan for Cedrela odorata, Dalbergia retusa, Dalbergia granadillo and Dalbergia stevensonii