Notification to the Parties

CONCERNING:

Transmission of documents

1. The Secretariat hereby transmits to the Parties the following data sheets of the Directory sent with Notification to the Parties No. 2000/048 of 31 July 2000. These pages reflect changes and replace data sheets of the Directory as follows:

Data sheet/ Fichas/ Fiche	New code/ Nuevo código/ Nouveau code	Old code/ Código precedente/ Ancien code
Parties / Partes
List of Parties / Lista de las Partes / Liste des Parties	Parties/Partes/02.2003/ 1-6	Parties/Partes/ 08.2002/1-6
India / Inde	IN/02.2003/1-3	IN/12.2002/1-3
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya / Jamahiriya Árabe Libia / Jamahiriya arabe libyenne	LY/02.2003/1	none/ninguno/aucun
Mexico / México / Mexique	MX/02.2003/1	MX/12.2002/1
Serbia and Montenegro / Serbia y Montenegro / Serbie-et-Monténégro	YU/02.2003/1-2	YU/08.2002/1-2
South Africa / Sudáfrica / Afrique du Sud	ZA/02.2003/1-5	ZA/07.2002/1-4

2. The Secretariat hereby also transmits updates to the Register of scientific institutions entitled to the exemption provided by Article VII, paragraph 6, of the Convention (distributed with Notification to the Parties No. 2001/008 of 9 February 2001)

Data sheet/ Fichas/ Fiche	New code/ Nuevo código/ Nouveau code	Old code/ Código precedente/ Ancien code
Mexico / México / Mexique – MX-HR-008-MEX: new (with sample form)	MX/02.2003/1-2	MX/01.2001/1

3. Finally, the Secretariat transmits herewith the Summary Record of the 18th meeting of the Animals Committee.