| CITES
calendar |
August 2010 |
 |
30 August - 3 September: UN/CEFACT Forum, Geneva, Switzerland |
September 2010 |
 |
1 September: Retreat of Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Chateau de Bossey, Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland |
 |
2 September:CITES toolkit and cooperation between CITES |
 |
9-10 September: 2nd meeting of the signatories to the CMS MoU concerning Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use of the Saiga Antelope (Saiga tatarica tatarica), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia |
 |
13-17 September: Meetings of the INTERPOL Wildlife Crime and Pollution Working Groups and INTERPOL 7th International Conference on Environmental Crime, Lyon, France |
 |
13-17 September: Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP) Workshop on CITES implementation,
Lisbon, Portugal |
 |
19-20 September: Regional Seminar for Customs Officers on Combating Environmental Crime,
Beijing, China |
 |
21-22 September: The 4th Multilateral Environment Agreements Regional Enforcement Network Workshop,
Beijing, China |
 |
22 September: High Level Event of the United Nations General Assembly as a contribution to the International Year of Biodiversity, New York |
 |
22-24 September: Annual conference of the International Association of Customs/Taxation Museums, which has selected CITES as this year's topic, Dommeldange, Luxembourg |
 |
27-29 September: Workshop on the conservation and sustainable use of saiga antelope, Urumqi, China |
 |
29 September-1 October: 2nd African Workshop of the ITTO-CITES timber species project, Limbe, Cameroon |
October 2010 |
 |
14 October: Entry into force of the new Appendix III (see Notification to the Parties No. 2010/018) |
 |
18-29 October: Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan |
November 2010 |
 |
1-3 November: African Elephant Range States Meeting, Nairobi, Kenya |
 |
8-11 November: 79th INTERPOL General Assembly, Doha, Qatar |
 |
21-24 November: International Tiger Summit, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation |
December 2010 |
 |
31 December: Deadline set in Resolution Conf.
10.10 (Rev. CoP14) for States that have a population of African elephants and wish to authorize export of raw ivory to communicate in writing to the Secretariat export quotas for raw ivory for 2011 |
January
2011 |
 |
31 January: Deadline set in Resolution Conf.
10.10 (Rev. CoP14) for Parties that hold a stock of raw ivory within their territory
to inform the Secretariat of the level of that stock, indicating
the source of the ivory |
February
2011 |
 |
17 February: Deadline for the submission of documents for
consideration at the 19th meeting of the CITES Plants Committee |
April
2011 |
 |
18-21 April: 19th meeting of the CITES Plants Committee,
Geneva, Switzerland |
May
2011 |
 |
19 May: Deadline for the submission of documents for consideration at the 25th meeting of the CITES Animals Committee |
June
2011 |
 |
16 June: Deadline for the submission of documents for consideration at the 61st meeting of the CITES Standing Committee |
July 2011 |
 |
18-22 July: 25th meeting of the CITES Animals Committee,
Geneva, Switzerland |
August 2011 |
 |
15-19 August: 61st meeting of the CITES Standing Committee,
Geneva, Switzerland |