No. 880                                     Geneva, 31 August 1995


CONCERNING:


Use of Phytosanitary Certificates as Certificates of Artificial Pr
opagation


1.This  Notification replaces Notification to the Parties No.  849
  of 18 April 1995.

2.In  accordance  with  the provisions of  Resolution  Conf.  9.3,
  paragraphs gg) and hh), the Parties mentioned below are entitled
  to  use phytosanitary certificates as certificates of artificial
  propagation  in the sense of Article VII, paragraph  5,  of  the
  Convention, for the export of artificially propagated  specimens
  of   species   included  in  Appendix  II  and  of  artificially
  propagated hybrids derived from one or more unannotated Appendix-
  I   species  (cf.  Resolution  Conf.  9.18,  second  DETERMINES,
  paragraph c):

                               BelgiumNotification to the  Parties
             No. 315
                               DenmarkNotification to the  Parties
             No. 770
                               GermanyNotification to the  Parties
             No. 490
                               Italy   Notification to the Parties
             No. 363
                                Luxembourg   Notification  to  the
             Parties No. 601
                                Netherlands  Notification  to  the
             Parties No. 325
                                         Republic     of     Korea
                               Notification to the Parties No. 881
                                     Singapore Notification to the
                               Parties No. 881
                               Sweden  Notification to the Parties
             No. 701
                                Switzerland  Notification  to  the
             Parties No. 770.

  For  each country in the above table, the indicated Notification
  is  that with which a copy of the phytosanitary certificate  was
  sent to the Parties.

3.The  CITES  Secretariat urges the Parties to provide  the  above
  information  to Customs and other CITES enforcement  authorities
  to  avoid  phytosanitary certificates issued  by  other  Parties
  being accepted for the import or export of CITES specimens,  and
  to avoid such certificates issued by the Parties mentioned above
  being refused as valid CITES documents.

4.Parties  that  intend to utilize phytosanitary  certificates  as
  certificates of artificial propagation are requested to  provide
  to  the Secretariat all the relevant information (copies of  the
  certificates,  stamps  and seals used,  etc.),  as  required  by
  Resolution Conf. 9.3, before starting to use such certificates.