No. 865                                       Geneva, 12 July 1995


CONCERNING:


                     Inventory of Vicu¤a Wool


1.The Conference of the Parties, during its ninth meeting, in Fort
  Lauderdale,  United  States  of  America,  1994,  approved   the
  transfer  to Appendix II of the Peruvian populations  of  vicu¤a
  that  had  not yet been transferred to this Appendix, under  the
  conditions  described in annotation 0504 of  the  Interpretation
  section of Appendices I and II, valid from 16 February 1995.

2.The annotation in question says:

            "0504          For the exclusive purpose of allowing
            international  trade  in  wool  sheared  from   live
            vicu¤as  of the populations included in Appendix  II
            (see  +210) and in the extant stock in Peru of  3249
            kg of wool, and in cloth and items made thereof ..."

3.The Management Authority of Peru carried out an inventory of the
  stocks  from 13 to 15 March 1995, with the participation  of  Mr
  Hern n  Torres,  President of the IUCN/SSC Specialist  Group  on
  South American Camelidae, who represented the Secretariat.

4.The  report  sent  to  the Secretariat by the  CITES  Management
  Authority  of  Peru  is  attached,  without  its  annexes.   The
  Secretariat has translated the enclosed report from Spanish into
  the other working languages of the Convention.

5.The  Secretariat takes this opportunity to remind the  importing
  countries  that  have not yet informed it  of  their  stocks  of
  vicu¤a wool and/or cloth to do so as soon as possible.