No. 852                                      Geneva, 18 April 1995


CONCERNING:


                  IATA Live Animals Regulations


1.IATA  has  published  the  21st  edition  of  its  Live  Animals
  Regulations. They entered into effect on 1 October 1994.

2.This  edition includes the CITES appendices as they were  before
  the  ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, and updated
  State regulations and rules relevant to each airline, but has  a
  completely   changed   numbering  system   for   the   container
  requirements   (although  the  contents   of   these   container
  requirements have only minor changes). Changes to other chapters
  are minor.

3.The Secretariat and the Chairman of the former Working Group  on
  Transport  of Live Specimens agreed in September 1994 that  this
  edition,  like  the previous ones, is deemed to meet  the  CITES
  Guidelines  in  respect of air transport. Considering  that  the
  21st  edition is not very different from the 20th edition,  they
  agreed also that the latter remains acceptable, as far as  CITES
  is  concerned, until the entry into force of the 22nd edition (1
  October 1995).

4.Thanks  to  an  agreement with IATA, the  Secretariat  is  in  a
  position  to  provide  copies of the 21st edition  (in  English,
  French  or  Spanish) at a special price of CHF 90 for Management
  Authorities.  Anybody  else  may  purchase  it  from  the  CITES
  Secretariat for CHF 110.

  The  Secretariat  strongly recommends that Parties  acquire  the
  necessary number of copies to provide to their border  posts  so
  that  inspectors will be in a position to check the validity  of
  any  export document that carries, in accordance with Resolution
  Conf. 9.3, the statement that it is only valid if the conditions
  of  transport  are  in  accordance with the  IATA  Live  Animals
  Regulations.

5.This  Notification replaces Notification to the Parties No.  765
  of 31 August 1993.