No. 734                                     Lausanne, 1 March 1993


CONCERNING:


                    Transmission of Documents


1.On 9 February 1993, the Secretariat sent by diplomatic channel a
  Notification  to  CITES  contracting  or  signatory  States   to
  communicate to them that two of the proposals from Australia for
  amendments  to  Appendices  I  and  II  of  the  Convention  for
  consideration by postal procedures were approved and  the  third
  withdrawn.  A  copy  of  that  Notification  was  sent  to   the
  Management Authorities on the same day.

2.The  Secretariat hereby transmits to the Parties  the  following
  pages of the Directory sent with Notification to the Parties No.
  139  of  5  June 1980. These pages reflect changes  and  replace
  pages of the Directory as follows:

  Barbados       BB/01.03.1993 replaces BB/15.12.1992

  Belgium        BE/31.01.1993/1 and 2 replace BE/31.01.1991/1 and
2

  Burkina Faso   BF/31.01.1993 replaces BF/15.07.1990

  Central African
    Republic     CF/31.01.1993 replaces CF/01.06.1992

  Denmark        DK/31.01.1993/1 and 3 replace DK/01.06.1992/1 and
3

  Estonia        EE/31.01.1993 replaces EE/01.08.1992

  Ethiopia       ET/01.03.1993 replaces ET/01.06.1992

  France         FR/01.03.1993/2 replaces FR/01.06.1992/2

  Malta          MT/31.01.1993 replaces MT/01.06.1992

  Paraguay       PY/31.01.1993 replaces PY/01.08.1992/1 and 2

  Spain          ES/01.03.1993/1, 2 and 3 replace ES/01.11.1992/1,
                 ES/01.01.1992/2 and 3
  Trinidad and
    Tobago       TT/01.01.1993 replaces TT/01.01.1992
  Venezuela      VE/31.01.1993/1 and 2 replace VE/01.06.1992/1 and
2

  Zambia         ZM/01.03.1993 replaces ZM/01.06.1992

3.The  Secretariat  hereby  also  transmits  to  the  Parties  the
  following  new data sheets regarding States or dependencies  not
  party  to  CITES,  which have provided the data  required  under
  Resolution Conf. 8.8:

  Faroe Islands  FO/04.02.1993/1
  Haiti          HT/04.02.1993/1
  Iceland        IS/04.02.1993/1
  Romania        RO/25.02.1993/1

4.Finally, the Secretariat transmits to the Parties a copy of  the
  following documents:

  Malta          Export/Re-export/Import/Other Permit
                       (This  form will be used as from  15  March
                 1993.  It  contains the MG watermark. It replaces
                 the   one   a   copy  of  which  was  sent   with
                 Notification  to  the  Parties  No.  570  of   31
                 January 1990)

  Sudan          Export/Re-export/Import Permit
                       (This  form, in use since 15 January  1993,
                 replaces  the one a copy of which was  sent  with
                 Notification to the Parties No. 262  of  18  July
                 1983)
                       (The  size of the original form is  31.9  x
                 20.6  cm. Green ink is used for the seal  of  the
                 Management Authority)

  Tunisia        Export/Re-export/Import/Other Permit
                       (This  form,  in use since 1 January  1993,
                 replaces  the one a copy of which was  sent  with
                 Notification  to  the  Parties  No.  273  of   20
                 September 1983)
                 (The size of the original form is 30.6 x 20.9 cm)

5.The  Parties  are informed that they will receive  soon,  direct
  from  Cambridge,  a free copy of Guidelines for  Legislation  to
  Implement CITES by Cyrille de Klemm, a work prepared within  the
  framework  of  a  joint  project of the IUCN  Environmental  Law
  Centre  and  the CITES Secretariat. The Secretariat  takes  this
  opportunity  to  thank  the author, the IUCN  Environmental  Law
  Centre  and those who funded the project for their contributions
  to a work which will certainly be useful to many Parties and non-
  party States.