Resources for implementation: Sustainability

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Parties must Determine that proposed trade will not be detrimental to the survival of the species, through scientific assessments of the status of the species in the national/regional territory (called ‘non-detriment findings’ or ‘NDFs’ in CITES).

• CITES-FAO PowerPoint presentation on Non-detriment findings
• Training materials on non-detriment findings in the CITES Virtual College

Shark NDF Guidance documents 
Developed by German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (CITES Scientific Authority) 

In March 2013 the 16^th Conference of the Parties adopted the inclusion of five new shark species in Appendix II of CITES. As a follow-up in the same year the German Scientific Authority (Fauna) to CITES commissioned a project to develop a method to carry out non-detriment findings (NDFs) for shark species. The resulting report "CITES Non-detriment Findings - Guidance for Shark species" has been initially presented to the 27^th Meeting of the Animals Committee in May 2014. This guidance was evaluated and tested by shark and CITES experts during a workshop convened at the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) in Bonn/Germany in August 2014. Based on the results of the workshop the initial guidance has been revised and an updated version produced. This revised version has also been translated into Spanish.

The German Scientific Authority to CITES (Fauna) (CITES-Science@bfn.de, ute.grimm@bfn.de) would welcome any comments to the revised version, especially with regard to experiences made when using the guidance to carry out non-detriment findings for specific shark stocks.

• CITES Non-detriment Findings - Guidance for Shark species, 2014, 1^st version (AC Inf Document E-AC27-Inf-01)
• Report of the German Workshop to Review the Shark NDF Guidance (PDF) 
• CITES Non-detriment Findings - Guidance for Shark species, 2014, 2^nd, revised (PDF)
• CITES DENP Guia Tiburones, 2014, 2° version (PDF)

Other resources

• Report of the FAO/CITES workshop to review the application and effectiveness of international regulatory measures for the conservation and sustainable use of elasmobranchs, Genazzano (Rome), Italy, 19-23 July 2010.  FAO Fisheries and aquaculture report No. R984. ISSN 2070-6987

• Review of the implementation of the international plan of action for the conservation and management of sharks. FAO Fisheries and aquaculture circular No.1076. ISSN 2070-6065

• Examples of NDFs for marine species (from document AC26/PC20 Doc. 8.4)

Examples of NDFs for marine species