Annex 5

Decisions related to the National Legislation Project

adopted at the 46th meeting of the Standing Committee
Geneva (Switzerland), 12-15 March 2002

Parties identified in Decision 11.18

The Standing Committee agreed:

a) For Parties in Category 3, that:

i) The Dominican Republic and Mozambique should submit a CITES Legislation Plan to the Secretariat by 31 May 2002. Such a Plan should include the agreed steps needed for each Party to adopt adequate legislation by 31 October 2002.

ii) The Secretariat shall issue a notification recommending a suspension of commercial trade in specimens of CITES-listed species with any of these Parties that fails to submit a CITES Legislation Plan by 31 May 2002 or to adopt adequate legislation by 31 October 2002. The Secretariat may withhold action on this instruction if good legislative progress has been made by a Party but shall implement the instruction immediately if adequate legislation has not been adopted by 31 March 2003.

b) For Parties in Category 2, that:

i) Cameroon, Panama, Poland, the Russian Federation, South Africa and Thailand should submit a CITES Legislation Plan to the Secretariat by 31 May 2002. Such a Plan should include the agreed steps needed for each Party to adopt adequate legislation by 31 January 2003.

ii) The Secretariat shall issue a notification recommending a suspension of commercial trade in specimens of CITES-listed species with any of these Parties that fails to submit a CITES Legislation Plan by 31 May 2002 or to adopt adequate legislation by 31 January 2003. The Secretariat may withhold action on this instruction if good legislative progress has been made by a Party but shall implement the instruction immediately if adequate legislation has not been adopted by 31 March 2003.¹

Parties identified in Decision 11.19

The Standing Committee agreed that:

a) Parties listed in paragraphs 22, 23, 24 and 25 of document SC46 Doc. 11.1² should submit a CITES Legislation Plan to the Secretariat by 31 May 2002. Such a plan should include the agreed steps needed for each Party to adopt adequate legislation by 31 December 2003.

b) the Secretariat shall issue a notification recommending the following compliance measures: if an affected Party fails to submit a CITES Legislation Plan by 31 May 2002, the Standing Committee shall consider further action at its 47th meeting. The Standing Committee expects the affected Parties to meet the above deadlines so that further measures, which may include restrictions on commercial trade, will not be required. If an affected Party fails to adopt adequate legislation by 31 December 2003, the Standing Committee shall recommend restrictions on commercial trade at its first meeting after that date unless a Party can show good cause for its lack of adequate progress.¹

 

1. Since the adoption of the above decisions at the 46th meeting of the Standing Committee, adequate legislation has been adopted by Greece, Poland and Thailand. The Secretariat has amended the analyses of national legislation and the categories accordingly and advised these Parties that Decisions 11.18 and 11.19 no longer applied to them. The same will be done as other Parties adopt adequate legislation.
   
   
2. Afghanistan, Algeria, the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei-Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Djibouti, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates, the United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Venezuela and Zambia [list added by the Secretariat].