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Notification to the Parties

No. 2000/009 Geneva, 31 January 2000

CONCERNING:

Quotas for trade in raw elephant ivory

1. Resolution Conf. 10.10 recommends that Parties that wish to authorize export of raw ivory establish an annual export quota, expressed as a maximum number of tusks.

2. The same Resolution recommends that Parties communicate to the Secretariat each export quota for the following year by 31 December and that the Secretariat communicate this to the Parties by 31 January of the year to which the quota applies.

3. In Notification to the Parties No. 1999/82 of 5 November 1999, the Secretariat requested the Parties to submit their quotas for 2000.

4. The list below contains the quota information that was received by the Secretariat by 19 January 2000.

 

Botswana

360 tusks (180 animals)

 

Cameroon

160 tusks (80 animals)

 

Mozambique

20 tusks (10 animals)

 

Namibia

150 tusks (75 animals)

 

South Africa

86 tusks (43 animals)

 

United Republic of Tanzania

100 tusks (50 animals)

 

Zimbabwe

1000 tusks (500 animals)


5. In accordance with the provisions of paragraph f) under the fourth RECOMMENDS of Resolution Conf. 10.10, a quota of zero has been established for each country that has not submitted a quota.

6. Parties are requested not to accept permits issued for the export of raw ivory, other than those issued by the countries mentioned under paragraph 4 above. It should be stressed that all populations of elephant are in Appendix I except those of Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe, which are included in Appendix II subject to certain conditions (see annotation °604 of the Interpretation of Appendices I and II).

7. The Secretariat will notify the Parties when other countries have submitted their quotas for raw ivory in accordance with Resolution Conf. 10.10.