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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.
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