CITES Definitions
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This document defines key terms used in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). It defines species as a species, subspecies, or geographically separate population. It also defines specimens, parts and derivatives, readily recognizable, and split-listing. Specimens include animals or plants, alive or dead, and recognizable parts or derivatives. Parts include skins, bones, shells, etc. Derivatives include blood, medicines, perfumes, and objects made from parts. Trade refers to export, re-export, import, and introduction from the sea.
CITES Definitions
- 1. 1 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Important CITES definitions www.CITES.org © Copyright CITES Secretariat 2005
- 2. 2 Overview • Article I of the text of the Convention defines a number of terms used in CITES: – species – specimen – trade • Attention will also be given to the terms "parts and derivatives", "readily recognizable", and "split-listing"
- 3. 3 Definitions Species = – Species or – a subspecies or – a geographically separate population
- 4. 4 Example Species Also applies to all specimens outside the natural range, such as introduced populations or captive specimens Caiman crocodilus
- 7. 7 Definitions Split-listing – Listing of a species in more than one Appendix should generally be avoided in view of the enforcement problems it creates – When split-listing does occur, it should generally be on the basis of national or continental populations, rather than subspecies Resolution Conf. 9.24 (Rev. CoP14) Example: Ostrich (Struthio camelus) Only the populations of Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, the Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and the Sudan are included in Appendix I All other populations are not included in the Appendices
- 8. 8 A specimen is: Animal or plant, alive or dead or Any readily recognizable parts or derivatives of plant or animal species Specific parts of Appendix-II plants or Appendix-III animals and plants may be included or excluded Definitions
- 9. 9 Skins or parts thereof Skeleton or bones Shells Horn, tusks or teeth Feathers Eggs Roots/leaves Meat Wood Definitions Parts
- 10. 10 Derivatives Blood Musk Objects made from parts (ivory piano keys, handbags, fur coats, belts, watch straps, shoes, gloves etc) Medicine containing CITES species Perfume from CITES species Preparations from meat Definitions
- 11. 11 Definitions Readily recognizable part or derivative - The term 'readily recognizable part or derivative' includes any specimen which appears from an accompanying document, the packaging or a mark or label, or from any other circumstances, to be a part or derivative of an animal or plant of a species included in the Appendices, unless such part or derivative is specifically exempted from the provisions of the Convention Resolution Conf. 9.6 (Rev.)
- 12. 12 Definitions Readily recognizable - one can recognize it as a CITES specimen, or - from the label it appears that it contains derivatives of CITES specimens e.g. animals (tiger, bear) or plants (cactus, khut) in medicines
- 13. 13 Definitions Trade - Trade is defined as: export re-export import, and introduction from the sea = export of any specimen that has previously been imported
- 14. 14 Definitions • "Introduction from the sea" means transportation into a State of specimens of any species which were taken in the marine environment not under the jurisdiction of any State Article I • "The marine environment not under the jurisdiction of any State" means those marine areas beyond the areas subject to the sovereignty or sovereign rights of a State consistent with international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Resolution Conf. 14.6