| Directed to Parties |
| 14.118 |
Caspian Sea sturgeon range States
are requested to participate actively in the two-year Technical Cooperation
Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
and other opportunities available through the relevant regional agencies,
and communicate their progress to the Secretariat. |
| 14.119 |
Range States which share stocks
are requested to take into consideration the recommendation that total export
quotas for 2008 (from 1 March 2008 to 28 February 2009) shall not be higher
than those agreed to in 2007 for each species and shall be set on the basis
of scientific data. |
| Directed to Parties and others |
| 14.120 |
Parties, commercial stakeholders
and all interested organizations are urged to assist in providing funding
and resources to complete the tasks assigned to the Animals Committee as
outlined in Resolution Conf. 12.7 (Rev. CoP14). |
| Directed to the Secretariat |
| 14.121 |
The Secretariat shall issue a Notification
to the Parties before September 2007, as a follow-up to Notification to
the Parties No. 2005/053, which: |
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a) |
reminds Parties to send copies of caviar export
permits and re-export certificates in accordance with Resolution Conf. 12.7
(Rev. CoP14); |
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b) |
encourages Parties to do this in a timely manner,
i.e. no longer than one month after a permit or a certificate has been issued
in accordance with Resolution Conf. 12.7 (Rev. CoP14); |
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c) |
provides a description of the caviar-trade database
maintained by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre; and |
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d) |
underlines the role that such a database could
play in assisting in the effective monitoring of export quotas and in helping
to reduce certain types of fraud, such as the excess of re-exports from
an export permit. |
| 14.122 |
The Secretariat shall issue a Notification
to the Parties to remind Parties, when preparing their annual report, to
separate trade in caviar and meat from trade in live specimens by using
the agreed codes and the preferred units as instructed in the Guidelines
for the preparation and submission of CITES annual reports in the Annex
to Notification to the Parties No. 2006/030 on Annual reports, as follows: |
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a) |
for caviar: "CAV" as code and "kg"
(kilograms) as unit; |
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b) |
for meat: "MEA" as code and "kg"
as unit; |
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c) |
for live fertilized eggs: "EGL" as
code and either "no." (number of specimens) as the preferred unit
or "kg" as the alternative unit; and |
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d) |
for live fish (fingerlings, juveniles and adults):
"LIV" as code and "no." as unit. |
| 14.123 |
The Secretariat shall issue a Notification
to the Parties to remind Parties of the recommendation that total export
quotas for 2008 (from 1 March 2008 to 28 February 2009) shall not be higher
than those agreed to in 2007 for each species. |
| 14.124 |
The Secretariat shall communicate
to the Parties the outcome of the workshop on Identification of Acipenseriformes
Species in Trade that was organized by the Sturgeon Specialist Group of
the IUCN Species Survival Commission with the assistance of the German Government
and the Secretariat. |
| 14.125 |
The Secretariat shall assist in
seeking external funding and resources from Parties and all relevant stakeholders
in order to complete the task assigned to the Animals Committee as outlined
in Resolution Conf. 12.7 (Rev. CoP14). |
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