SSN Briefing Document for the 57th Meeting of the CITES Standing ...

ISSUE PROPOSED ACTIONS SSN RECOMMENDATIONS
to regularly monitor and evaluate the scale and nature of information and prepare conclusions about gaps and additional
illegal trade in Asian big cats. The Secretariat reports that a measures needed and make recommendations to CoP15 in this
meeting of the Expert Group will occur in the fist half of 2009 regard.
and recommends that Task Force members attend this • Decision 14.67:
meeting where this matter should be discussed.
■ SSN recommends that the SC include this issue (how Asian big
cat range States have improved international cooperation in
conservation and trade control) in the standardized reporting
format for determining compliance with Decision 14.65, as
recommended above.
• Decision 14:68:
■ SSN recommends that the SC request the Secretariat to:
▪ liaise with regional enforcement networks to determine how
CITES can help them to improve, and
▪ to encourage the Russian Federation to join Asian regional
enforcement networks and/or to ascertain difficulties in this
regard.
• Decision 14.69:
■ SSN recommends that the SC:
▪ support the recommendation in SC57 Doc. 31.2 to request
Parties present at SC57 that breed tigers on a commercial scale
to report verbally to SC57 on the progress they have made in
implementation of Decision 14.69;
▪ request that the Secretariat issue a Notification to the Parties
requesting that Parties with intensive operations breeding tigers
on a commercial scale report to the SC by 31 December 2008 on
how they are implementing this Decision, including a timeline
leading to full implementation by SC58;
▪ determine at SC58 if relevant Parties have implemented this
Decision; and
▪ for relevant Parties that have not implemented the Decision,
decide follow-up measures to be taken to ensure implementation
by no later than CoP15.
• Decision 14.70:
■ SSN supports the Secretariat’s suggestion that the enforcement
meeting should emphasize intelligence-led approaches.
SSN recommends that the SC:
▪ not approve the Secretariat’s recommendation that the meeting
should be a training course;
▪ agree that the meeting should include all levels of the
professional enforcement community including decision-makers,
high-ranking officers, financial officers, and operational personnel;
▪ agree that the meeting should provide an opportunity for a
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