Tree species: annotations for species included in Appendices II and III

*Directed to the Secretariat*
14.149	Subject to the availability of external funding, the Secretariat shall prepare a glossary with definitions and training materials to illustrate the content of the amended annotations, the terms used and their practical implementation when applying the law and controls.
15.35	The Secretariat shall commission a trade study, subject to available funding, to be conducted by an external consultant in cooperation with the International Tropical Timber Organization, to review the trade in timber species listed in Appendices II and III to determine the types of specimens that initially appear in international trade or are exported from range States and regarding those which dominate the trade in and demand for the wild resource. Once the specimens that meet these criteria have been determined, the study should also determine which six-digit universal HS codes and associated definitions are applicable to these specimens. The Secretariat shall provide the results of this study to the Plants Committee.
*Directed to the Plants Committee*
14.148 (Rev. CoP15)	a)	Based on the results of the trade study, the Plants Committee shall review the annotations for tree species listed in Appendices II and III and, if appropriate, draft amendments to the annotations and prepare clear definitions for the terms used in those annotations in order to facilitate their use and understanding by CITES authorities, enforcement officers, exporters and importers.
	b)	The amended annotations shall focus on articles that initially appear in international trade as exports from range States and those which dominate the trade in and demand for the wild resource.
	c)	The Plants Committee shall draft, if necessary, proposals to amend Resolution Conf. 10.13 (Rev. CoP15) and/or to amend the Appendices accordingly so that the Depositary Government may submit them on its behalf for consideration at the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties.