CITES CoP16 Digest - Species Survival Network
CITES CoP16 Digest - Species Survival Network
CITES CoP16 Digest - Species Survival Network
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DOCUMENT BACKGROUND / CURRENT STATUS EFFECT OF DOCUMENT SSN VIEW<br />
48<br />
Continued<br />
ate a section on the <strong>CITES</strong> Website to publish good<br />
practice experiences related to <strong>CITES</strong> and livelihoods<br />
in order to make them accessible to interested<br />
Parties and stakeholders.<br />
• Provides:<br />
• steps to rapidly assess the impact of implementation<br />
of <strong>CITES</strong> listings on livelihoods of poor rural communities<br />
(Annex 3), extracted from the toolkit; and<br />
• key elements of the “Nazca Guidelines” to address<br />
impacts of implementing <strong>CITES</strong>-listing decisions on<br />
livelihoods of poor rural communities (Annex 4).<br />
Continued<br />
beyond its remit and will detract from more essential<br />
Secretariat functions;<br />
• directing importing countries to assess implementation<br />
in exporting countries for purposes beyond those<br />
directly related to the Convention;<br />
• directing the SC to review implementation of the<br />
Resolution on livelihoods and to continue the operation<br />
of its WG on <strong>CITES</strong> and Livelihoods. Work on this issue<br />
should be considered completed once the toolkit and<br />
guidelines are finalized by the SC. There is no need for<br />
<strong>CITES</strong> to monitor progress of measures taken independently<br />
by Parties on poverty issues.<br />
Toolkit and Guidelines<br />
• SSN urges Parties to extend Decision 15.5 until the SC approves the documents.<br />
• SSN urges Parties to oppose publication on the <strong>CITES</strong> website of the toolkit or the Nazca Guidelines until they<br />
been endorsed by the SC, as required by Decision 15.5.<br />
• Regarding the Nazca Guidelines, SSN urges Parties to reject inclusion of language suggesting that Parties:<br />
• “consider postponing the effective date of <strong>CITES</strong> listings to allow time for the development of strategies to<br />
mitigate any negative effects”; the Convention states that listings come into effect 90 days after adoption;<br />
• “prevent economically poor rural communities from being deprived of benefits due to the development of ex<br />
situ production that does not provide for benefit-sharing”; this is a domestic matter outside the <strong>CITES</strong> mandate,<br />
and will have no effect on ex situ production in other Parties;<br />
• “eliminate barriers to in situ production systems and promote the development of these systems”; <strong>CITES</strong> has<br />
no mandate to promote trade or wildlife use; and<br />
• “ensure that consumer countries work with in situ and ex situ traders and trade associations to foster positive<br />
effects and minimize any negative impact”; this is a domestic matter outside the <strong>CITES</strong> mandate; this should<br />
remain voluntary (the draft Resolution already states that consumer countries “may” work with such bodies).<br />
20. Wildlife Trade Policy<br />
Reviews<br />
Cop16 Doc. 20<br />
• RC 15.2 on Wildlife trade policy reviews invites<br />
exporting and importing Parties to carry out, on a voluntary<br />
basis, reviews of wildlife policy on use of and<br />
trade in specimens of <strong>CITES</strong>-listed species, taking<br />
into account environmental, social and economic<br />
issues and relevant policy instruments, in order to<br />
facilitate a better understanding of effects of wildlife<br />
trade policies on the international wildlife trade.<br />
• Decision 15.8 directs Secretariat to report at SC62<br />
and <strong>CoP16</strong> on progress made on implementation of<br />
RC 15.2.<br />
• Reports on the progress of policy reviews by a number<br />
of Parties, and on work on this issue carried out by<br />
Secretariat.<br />
• Provides draft Decisions (Annex 1) that, inter alia:<br />
• direct Parties that undertake wildlife trade policy<br />
reviews to provide details to the Secretariat; and<br />
• direct Secretariat to assist Parties undertaking<br />
wildlife trade policy reviews, publish reviews on the<br />
<strong>CITES</strong> website, organize a regional or subregional<br />
workshop on reviews, and report to SC66 and<br />
CoP17 on progress made in implementing RC 15.2.<br />
OPPOSE<br />
• SSN urges Parties to reject the proposed Decisions directing<br />
the Secretariat to undertake further work on this issue:<br />
• this is ranked as a low priority activity for the Secretariat<br />
(SC62 Doc. 9.2 Annex); and<br />
• a cost-benefit analysis of alternative regulatory regimes<br />
is outside the remit of <strong>CITES</strong>.<br />
• SSN has a number of concerns about the framework in<br />
Annex 2, but, as this document is not being presented for<br />
adoption by the CoP, we will not air them here. However,<br />
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