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DOCUMENT BACKGROUND / CURRENT STATUS EFFECT OF DOCUMENT SSN VIEW 82 Continued • Caribbean Fishery Management Council / Organización del Sector Pesquero y Acuícola de Centroamerica / Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission / Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism Working Group on Queen Conch, Panama City, Panama, 23‐25 October. • Recommends that CoP adopt a Decision to take note of the results of the meetings. 66. Madagascar Cop16 Doc. 66 • Decision 15.97 directs Madagascar and PC to: • gather and review information on succulent taxa proposed for listing at COP15 but not adopted; • gather and review information on species that would benefit from CITES listing; • identify mechanisms to help build capacity to carry out non-detriment findings for listed species; and • report to CoP16 and, if necessary, prepare proposals to amend the Appendices for CoP16. • Prepared by PC Chair with support of the PC nomenclature specialist and Madagascar. • Provides an update on work under Decision 15.97 and reports that PC20 agreed, inter alia, that: • With respect to listing of tree species: ·· Madagascar would work with PC to submit listing proposals for Dalbergia spp. and Diospyros spp.; and ·· a document would be prepared for CoP16 that outlines a work program (or implementation plan) for ongoing preparation of identification tests, guides, training courses and a userfriendly manual for enforcement officers in Madagascar and in importing countries. SUPPORT • SSN urges Parties to support CoP16 proposals submitted by Madagascar. • SSN encourages the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), Parties and stakeholders to support Madagascar in identification of actions and in preparation of resources to facilitate enforcement of CITES listings particularly regarding identification of specimens in trade, and recommends that Parties adopt a Decision directed to PC and Secretariat in this regard. • With respect to listing of succulent species: ·· Madagascar would work with PC to finalize listing proposals for COP16; and ·· final proposals would take account of identification issues, issues with lookalike taxa and preparation of identification materials. • Notes that Decision 15.97 will have been fully implemented upon submission of the proposals by Madagascar at CoP16. 67. Agarwood-producing taxa 67.1 Report of the Plants Committee Cop16 Doc. 67.1 • RC 11.11 (Rev. CoP15) on Regulation of trade in plants, inter alia, provides definitions of ‘‘under controlled conditions” and “artificially propagated”. • RC 10.13 (Rev. CoP15) on Implementation of the Convention for timber species states that timber or other parts or derivatives of trees grown in monospecific • Prepared by PC. • Proposes changes to RC 10.13, including: • Change title: Implementation of the Convention for timber tree species. • Amend para g): “timber or other parts or derivatives OPPOSE IN PART / SUPPORT IN PART • SSN urges Parties to oppose proposed change to RC 10.13, para g) as there may be instances when it is difficult to distinguish mixed plantations from naturally-established trees subject to silviculture, or from mixed stands of planted and naturally-established trees. Continued Continued Continued
DOCUMENT BACKGROUND / CURRENT STATUS EFFECT OF DOCUMENT SSN VIEW Continued Continued Continued plantations should be considered as being artificially propagated in accordance with the definition in RC 11.11 (Rev. CoP15). • Decision 15.94 directs PC to consider current definitions of artificially propagated plants and how they apply to trees in mixed species plantations and report at CoP16. • Decision 15.95 directs Secretariat to organize a workshop to discuss management of wild and plantationsource agarwood. of trees grown in monospecific or mixed plantations be considered as being artificially propagated in accordance with the definition contained in RC 11.11 (Rev. CoP15)”. • Provides a draft Decision directing PC to consider current production systems of tree species, including mixed and monospecific plantations, and assess applicability of current definitions of artificial propagation in RC 10.13 and RC 11.11 and report to CoP17. • Recommends that Decision 15.95 be revised and extended. • SSN recommends that Parties agree to extend Decision 15.95. 67.2 Draft resolution on Implementation of the Convention for agarwood-producing taxa Cop16 Doc. 67.2 • RC 11.11 (Rev. CoP15) on Regulation of trade in plants, inter alia, provides definitions of ‘‘under controlled conditions” and “artificially propagated”. • At CoP15, several decisions regarding agarwood were adopted; these, inter alia, direct: • PC to consider current definitions of artificially propagated plants and how they apply to trees in mixed species plantations and report at CoP16 (Decision 15.94); and • Secretariat to organize a workshop to discuss management of wild and plantation source agarwood (Decision 15.95). • Parties attending workshops in Kuwait (October 2011) and Indonesia (November 2011) concluded that: current definition of artificially propagated does not apply to mixed species plantations; definition of “under controlled conditions” should be amended to explicitly encompass conditions found in tree plantations for the purpose of plant production including their parts and derivatives. • Prepared by China, Indonesia, Kuwait, Thailand. • Provides a draft Resolution on agarwood that, inter alia, • establishes a definition of ‘‘under controlled conditions’ and ‘artificially propagated’ for agarwood- producing taxa, that differs from that for all other taxa. • reduce the requirement that the environment be “intensively manipulated” to merely “manipulated”; • allow specimens sourced from wild seedling, saplings, cuttings, etc. to be considered “artificially propagated”; and • expand definition of artificially propagated agarwood producing plants to include those in gardens, state, private or community production plantations, either monospecific or mixed species. • encourages Parties to establish a registration system for artificially propagated trees, and a registration system for exporters of agarwood oil. OPPOSE • Draft Resolution would allow: • agarwood to be traded under less strict criteria with regards to “artificially propagated” and “under controlled conditions” than all other CITES-listed plant species; • the definition of ‘artificially propagated’ to be expanded for agarwood to include plantations with mixed species (see SSN View for CoP16 Doc. 67.1); and • specimens sourced from wild seedlings, saplings, cuttings, etc. to be considered “artificially propagated”. • Current definitions in RC 11.11 (Rev. CoP15) are being successfully applied to other CITES-listed species. • Proposed definitions would weaken controls adopted to protect vulnerable species such as those producing agarwood. • At PC20 participants expressed concern that: “…defining specimens of artificially propagated agarwood-producing species too broadly would mean that controls would be reduced on many specimens exported and that, if the amended definition were applied to other plant species, there may be unforeseen consequences”. • SSN urges Parties to establish a transparent, international registration system for agarwood plantations and for exporters of agarwood oil. • SSN also urges the Parties to ensure that any Resolution on agarwood should also focus on strengthening Party capacities to formulate NDFs for agarwood producing species. www.ssn.org 83
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