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Summary and Analysis
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 Sixty-second meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Standing Committee
23-27 July 2012 | Geneva, Switzerland |
Highlights for Wednesday, 25 July 2012
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On Wednesday morning, the CITES Standing Committee (SC) considered: a proposal to widen the use of the CITES logo to certain operators or operations registered with the Convention; review of resolutions; national reports; captive-bred and ranched specimens; e-commerce; and enforcement matters. Under the National Legislation Project, delegates considered trade suspensions for priority countries Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, Paraguay and Rwanda because of lack of submission of information.
On enforcement, delegates considered implementation issues in Guinea, including limited progress in meeting the recommendations arising from a Secretariat mission to the country, and discussed whether to recommend a trade suspension or issuance of a warning. They also addressed fraudulent permits allegedly from Cameroon, with many encouraging cooperation between national authorities in this regard.
In the afternoon, the Standing Committee addressed: the Central African wildlife trade law enforcement initiative; introduction from the sea, including draft text on “chartering”; e-permitting; purpose-of-transaction codes on CITES permits and certificates; and a streamlined process for cross-border movement of musical instruments containing specimens of CITES-listed species proposed by the US. The Standing Committee then took up Asian big cats, hearing a report from the Global Tiger Initiative and an offer on behalf of the World Bank of US$100,000 for a study on captive tiger breeding operations, and national reports on tiger conservation measures. The Committee also considered leopard export quotas, with Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and the US having agreed on a potential way forward in relation to trade in leopard trophies. SC62 further addressed: physical inspection of timber shipments; use of taxonomic serial numbers; and the identification manual.
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