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Notification to the PartiesNo. 936 Geneva, 4 September 1996
CONCERNING:
Security Stamps
1. The Secretariat hereby transmits to the Parties the attached list of Parties that have confirmed that they use CITES security stamps and the date from which such use started. Parties that have not yet done so are urged to send the necessary information for inclusion in the list.
2. The list includes new information about El Salvador, as well as the information contained in Notification to the Parties No. 923 of 20 June 1996. That Notification is therefore cancelled.
3. Each security stamp produced by the Secretariat bears a serial number, preceded by the two-letter ISO code of the country issuing the permit to which the stamp must be affixed. For each Party this code appears at the bottom of its CITES Directory sheet.
4. Security stamps affixed to export permits or re-export certificates should be validated with the signature of the issuing officer and the seal (preferably embossed) of the competent authority, placed across both the face of the stamp and the document itself.
5. As the delay in delivery of security stamps is long and as new stamps can not be ordered for each country individually (for reasons of cost, only bulk orders may be made), the Secretariat urges the Parties to inform it sufficiently early (preferably one year in advance) of their needs, in order to avoid discontinuity in the supply. This also applies to Parties that are not using security stamps but decide to do so.
6. When stamps disappear or are abused, or are suspected of use for purposes contrary to the aims of the Convention, the Secretariat should be informed immediately. In addition, any export permit or re-export certificate issued by one of the countries included in the attached list after the date indicated, and not bearing a security stamp, should be rejected or be subject to verification of authenticity.
List of Parties Using CITES Security Stamps
ARGENTINA
from 13 August 1984
AUSTRIA
from 1 May 1986
BANGLADESH
from 3 August 1985
permit no. 0009
BERMUDA (United Kingdom)
since 1989
BOLIVIA
from 7 September 1984
permit no. 00303
BOTSWANA
from 11 January 1985
BRAZIL
from 20 September 1984
BURKINA FASO
from 1 January 1992
CAMEROON
from 1 November 1984
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
from 23 August 1984
(with an interruption from 12 February 1985 to end of July 1987, See Notification to the Parties No. 414 of 28 November 1986)
CHAD
from January 1996
CHILE
from 3 August 1984
COLOMBIA
from 21 September 1984
CONGO
from 1 August 1984
COSTA RICA
since 1989
CUBA
─ from 23 March 1992
─ from 8 August 1992
(for marine species)
CZECH REPUBLIC
from 1 January 1993
DENMARK
from 15 January 1986
ECUADOR
from 1 January 1985
EL SALVADOR
since 1992
ETHIOPIA
from 16 April 1990
FINLAND
from 11 July 1988
GHANA
from 1 August 1984
GUATEMALA
from 11 April 1989
GUYANA
from 31 December 1984
permit no. A632/84
HONDURAS
from 1 October 1986
INDIA
from 1 September 1984
INDONESIA
from 1 January 1985
JAPAN
─ from 1 July 1984
(export/re-export permits)
─ from 1 August 1984
(import permits)
KENYA
since 1988
LIBERIA
from 15 September 1984
LIECHTENSTEIN
from 1 August 1984
LUXEMBOURG
from 1 January 1987
MADAGASCAR
from 17 July 1984
MALAWI
from 7 May 1990
MALAYSIA
from 15 March 1985
MALTA
from 13 June 1990
MEXICO
from 12 March 1993
MOROCCO
from 4 July 1989
MOZAMBIQUE
from 1 March 1988
NEPAL
from 30 November 1986
NEW ZEALAND
from 1 February 1993
NICARAGUA
from 4 September 1984
NIGER
from 18 July 1986
permit no. 0001-86
NIGERIA
since 1985
NORWAY
from 1 December 1984
PAKISTAN
from 10 December 1985
PANAMA
from 13 August 1984
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
from 1 March 1985
PARAGUAY
from 21 August 1991
PERU
from 10 October 1984
PHILIPPINES
from 1 September 1989
POLAND
from 1 November 1991
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
from 1 February 1992
SENEGAL
from 15 July 1984
SEYCHELLES
from 25 June 1990
SLOVAKIA
from 1 January 1993
SOMALIA
from 20 September 1986
SOUTH AFRICA
from 1 August 1984
SRI LANKA
from 16 June 1986
SUDAN
since 1986 or earlier
SURINAME
from 1 January 1985
SWEDEN
from 1 November 1984
SWITZERLAND
from 1 August 1984
TANZANIA,
UNITED REPUBLIC OF
from 1 January 1985
[only on CITES Export Certificates FW 17 (Rev. 1981)]
THAILAND
from 3 July 1989
(for animal specimens, except fish)
TOGO
from 7 August 1984
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
from 2 April 1991
TUNISIA
from 1 January 1985
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
from 1 February 1985
URUGUAY
from 1 October 1984
VENEZUELA
from 20 September 1984
ZAIRE
from 10 July 1984
ZAMBIA
from 15 June 1992
ZIMBABWE
uses its own security
stamps (see Notification
to the Parties No. 228
of 13 October 1982)
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