Notification to the Parties

CONCERNING:

Transmission of documents

1. The Secretariat hereby transmits to the Parties the following data sheets of the Directory sent with Notification to the Parties No. 2000/048 of 31 July 2000. These pages reflect changes and replace data sheets of the Directory as follows:

Data sheet/ Fichas/ Fiche	New code/ Nuevo código/ Nouveau code	Old code/ Código precedente/ Ancien code
Parties / Partes
Bolivia / Bolivie	BO/05.2002/1	BO/06.2000/1
Chile / Chili	CL/05.2002/1 & 4	CL/08.2000/1 & 10.2001/4
China / Chine	CN/05.2002/2	CN/07.2000/2
Portugal	PT/05.2000/2	PT/01.2000/2
United Arab Emirates / Emiratos Árabes Unidos / Emirats arabes unis	AE/05.2002/1	AE/04.2002/1

2. The Secretariat also transmits herewith updates to the Register of scientific institutions entitled to the exemption provided by Article VII, paragraph 6, of the Convention (distributed with Notification to the Parties No. 2001/008 of 9 February 2001):

Data sheet/ Fichas/ Fiche	New code/ Nuevo código/ Nouveau code	Old code/ Código precedente/ Ancien code
List of countries / Lista de países / Liste des pays addition of the Czech Republic	04.2002
Czech Republic / República Checa / République tchèque new	CZ/04.2002/1	none/ningun/aucun
Kenya addition of sample form	KE/04.2002/1	KE/01.2001/1
Netherlands / Países Bajos / Pays-Bas NL 006: deletion NL 003A: changed to NL 008 NL 003B: changed to NL 003 NL 009 and NL 010: additions	NL/04.2002/1	NL/12.2001/1
United States of America / Estados Unidos de América / Etats-Unis d'Amérique US 061: new validity US 139: deletion (expired)	US/04.2002/1-8	US/02.2002/1-8

3. Finally, the Secretariat also transmits, to Parties only, a copy of the Notification to contracting or signatory States regarding the result of the postal vote on the proposal of Argentina to amend Appendices I and II with respect to Araucaria araucana.