No. 766                                     Geneva, 31 August 1993


CONCERNING:


                      Specific Reservations


1.The  Depositary Government informed the Secretariat  on  9  July
  1993 that the Republic of Korea, on depositing its instrument of
  accession to CITES, had entered specific reservations, effective
  from  7  October 1993, with regard to Ursidae spp.  and  Moschus
  spp.   included   in  Appendix  II  of  the  Convention.   These
  reservations are entered for a period of three years.

2.The  above  information will be communicated officially  to  the
  contracting  or  signatory States of the  Convention  through  a
  Notification from the Swiss Government (Depositary).

3.A  revised  edition  of  the "Specific Reservations  Entered  by
  Parties" valid from 7 October 1993 is attached herewith.