[Nhcoll-l] This may be good news re: CITES

[Dirk Neumann]

Hi Ellen, hi all

interesting news indeed! Thanks for sharing and calling for action.

There are two different levels:
1. International trade monitoring (CITES has nothing to do with 
conservation in the first place, sad but true)
2. Simplified procedures for CITES registered individuals or institutions.

I think we should strongly consider a submission, especially since CITES 
is not only applicable for (preserved) specimens (and parts thereof), 
but also to DNAs and tissues, which are increasingly exchanged for 
sequencing. Especially for all those tube it is quite a challenge to 
demonstrate - if these are shipped - that the specimen, from which this 
sample was originally sourced, was preserved and accessioned for example 
prior to its CITES listing date.

The other relevant point for us (from a perspective of material exchange 
and sending loans around the globe) is that we notice that Shipping 
Companies start to ban CITES materials from shipping because of the 
tiresome bureaucracy linked with clearance at customs.

A well prepared submission *requires input from the community*. To 
support the Legislation & Regulation committee of SPNHC with a 
submission (which should be closely aligned with other associations and 
stakeholders in our area, of course), *we would need your information on:*

- with issues did you observe when sending CITES material and/or 
subsamples of such specimens?
- what are the functioning elements in the current system (e.g. 
simplified procedures) that proofed to be practical and efficient for 
all parties involved handling such consignments that should be expanded.

Ideally, such submissions should be drafted positively and underline 
support (rather than opposition), therefore it would be good to receive 
positive examples and details on functioning parts that should stay or 
could be expanded.

SPNHC members, please feel invited to email respective information to 
the L&R co-chairs, Stephanie Carson / Dirk Neumann.

Hope this is also in your sense, Ellen?


All the best
Dirk

Am 22.11.2017 um 21:14 schrieb Ellen Paul:
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cites.org_sites_default_files_notif_E-2DNotif-2D2017-2D071.pdf&d=DwIDaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=lNENFufK93ds2QrAohenqQZJY0ZmPxXgpuS_31Y772E&s=U0EZgym6aSV5oNfFbO8k_L9rTrUfLPPci52mowsBiLE&e=
>
> At its 17th meeting (CoP17, Johannesburg, 2016), the Conference of the 
> Parties adopted the following Decisions 17.173-174, directed to the 
> Secretariat and the Standing Committee, respectively: 17.173 The 
> Secretariat shall issue a Notification to the Parties requesting 
> Parties to report on their implementation of, and experiences with the 
> simplified procedures to issue permits and certificates to facilitate 
> and expedite trade that will have a negligible impact, or none, on the 
> conservation of the species concerned
>
> The record on follow-up on these requests (or really anything to do 
> with CITES administration) is not good; even if they get responses, 
> make the recommendations...that alone can take years...and then of 
> course it is up to the parties to implement.
>
> But still...
>
> And here's the important part:
>
> For the Secretariat to assist the Standing Committee in providing 
> recommendations for consideration at the 18th meeting of the 
> Conference of the Parties, Parties and *other stakeholders are invited 
> to submit information to the Secretariat* in one of the working 
> languages on: a)- implementation of Section XII of Resolution Conf. 
> 12.3 (Rev. CoP17) in national legislation, if any; and b) experiences 
> with the use of simplified procedures to issue permits and 
> certificates to facilitate and expedite trade with no or negligible 
> impact on the conservation of species concerned. 4. The information 
> should be submitted to the Secretariat at info at cites.org no later than 
> 31 January 2018. Questions with regard to this Notification can be 
> addressed to sofie.flensborg at cites.org.
>
> I am happy to work with those of you who wish to form an informal 
> committee (Dirk? Stephanie?) to prepare comments.
>
> Of course, the main concern I have is not permit/certificate issuance 
> per se (in the U.S., the big problem is staffing at the Division of 
> Management Authority) but rather the validation requirement for 
> materials moving on permits.  Did I mention that the Department of 
> Interior acceded to our request to re-instate the regulatory process 
> pertaining to CITES updates, which will include a response to our 
> petition to suspend/revoke the validation requirement?
>
> Ellen
> -- 
> Ellen Paul
>
> Ellen Paul
>
> Executive Director
>
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