World Status, Exploitation and Trade - WIDECAST

INTRODUCTIONTable 6, continued.198419851986198719881989in Conunittee but WITHDRAWN and referred back to TEC.French Proposal to transfer ranched populations of C mydas on Europaand Tromelin to Appendix II. WITHDRAWN.Suriname Proposal to transfer ranched population of mydas toAppendix II. REJECTED, but APPROVAL (A3/3) committed conditional ona satisfactory marking system being approved by T.E.C.1st Meeting of CITES Technical Expert Committee.Suriname submits revised marking system. APPROVED (31/0).France presents new ranching proposal.France and Italy withdraw reservations on C. mydas and E. imbricata .5th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, Buenos Aires.Conf. 5.16 strengthens the control of trade in ranched specimens.Suriname Proposal to transfer ranched population of C. mydas toAppendix II. REJECTED (26/22/15).French Proposal to transfer ranched populations of C. mydas on Europaand Tromelin to Appendix II. REJECTED (25/32/7).UK Proposal to transfer ranched population of C. mydas in CaymanIslands Turtle Farm to Appendix II. REJECTED (27/32/7).UK submits a special resolution to treat the offspring of turtlesacquired by Cayman Turtle Farm before 1979 as pre-convention.REJECTED (26/32/4).Indonesia Proposal to transfer population of C. mydas to Appendix II.REJECTED (2/23)Indonesia Proposal to transfer population of E. imbricata toAppendix II. REJECTED (3/27).Seychelles Proposal to transfer population of E. imbricata toAppendix II. REJECTED (33/17/4).2nd Meeting of CITES Technical Expert Committee.France submits revised marking system. APPROVED.6th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, Ottawa.French Proposal to transfer ranched populations of C. mydas on Europaand Tromelin to Appendix II. REJECTED.Indonesia Proposal to transfer population of C. mydas toAppendix II. WITHDRAWN.Indonesia Proposal to transfer population of E. imbricata toAppendix II. WITHDRAWN.Conf. 6.21 establishes the need for captive breeding operations toadopt a system for marking their products and provide a mechanism forremoving from the register of approved operations those which fail tomaintain the required standards.Conf. 6.22 requires that Parties having ranching operations undertheir jurisdiction should submit annual reports of their status andprovides a mechanism for transferring ranched populations back toAppendix I should they fail to maintain the required standards.Conf. 6.23 calls on lUCN to convene a meeting of specialists to drawup guidelines on evaluating marine turtle ranching proposals forsubmission to the CITES Secretariat.Japan withdraws reservation on C. mydas (retains those onE. imbricata and L. olivacea )lUCN workshop to establish guidelines for evaluating marine turtleranching proposals, Costa Rica.St Vincent and the Grenadines accedes to CITES with a reservation onE. imbricata.37