Notification to the Parties

CONCERNING:

Specific reservations

1. The Depositary Government (Government of the Swiss Confederation) has informed the Secretariat that on 24 October 2001 Peru deposited with the Swiss Federal Council a declaration of withdrawal of its reservations with respect to the inclusion of the following species in Appendix I of the Convention:

Balaenoptera acutorostrata

Balaenoptera bonaerensis

Balaenoptera edeni

Caperea marginata.

2. The above information was communicated officially to the contracting and signatory States of the Convention through a notification from the Depositary Government.

3. A revised version of the "Specific reservations entered by Parties", valid from 24 October 2001, is attached to this Notification.