No. 851                                      Geneva, 18 April 1995


CONCERNING:


                  ICPO-Interpol, the ECO-MESSAGE


1.The  ICPO-Interpol  Working  Party on  Environmental  Crime  has
  decided to create a special database within the general database
  of ICPO-Interpol.

2.In order to increase the effectiveness of this special database,
  a special form has been prepared called the ECO-MESSAGE. It will
  eventually  be used for all communication between  the  National
  Central  Bureaux (NCB) of Interpol and the ICPO-Interpol General
  Secretariat  concerning crime involving international  trade  in
  and  transport of dangerous goods, nuclear waste and wild  fauna
  and flora.

3.The  general assembly of ICPO-Interpol has approved the  use  of
  the ECO-MESSAGE.

4.A  copy  of  this  form  is attached to this  notification.  The
  Secretariat  would like to encourage every Management  Authority
  to  use  this form to communicate with the NCB of their  country
  and  to  ensure  that their NCB uses it to communicate  as  much
  information   as   possible   to   the   ICPO-Interpol   General
  Secretariat.

5.The Secretariat would like to emphasize that the ECO-MESSAGE may
  be  used to communicate information to the ICPO-Interpol General
  Secretariat  only  through  the NCB  of  each  country.  If  the
  national legislation does not preclude it, the CITES Secretariat
  would like to receive copies of all forms sent from a Management
  Authority to an NCB.