Annual Report 2007
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CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA ____________________ ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARIAT 2007 Article XII of the text of the Convention requires the CITES Secretariat to prepare annual reports to the Parties on its work and on the implementation of the Convention. This document, which covers the year 2007, is the 31st report of the Secretariat on its activities. The map below, where CITES Parties are shown in green, shows that CITES membership has become almost universal. Contents Foreword from the Secretary-General................................................................................................ 1 Administration and finance .............................................................................................................. 2 Structure and organization........................................................................................................... 2 CITES Trust Fund ....................................................................................................................... 2 Fundraising ................................................................................................................................ 3 Convention support......................................................................................................................... 4 Organization of CITES meetings................................................................................................... 4 Fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties......................................................................4 Database on trade ...................................................................................................................... 5 Caviar database ......................................................................................................................... 6 CITES Registers ......................................................................................................................... 6 Notifications to the Parties .......................................................................................................... 7 Directory ................................................................................................................................... 7 Amendments to the Appendices .................................................................................................. 7 Reservations .............................................................................................................................. 8 Amendments to the Convention................................................................................................... 8 New Parties ............................................................................................................................... 9 CITES publications...................................................................................................................... 9 Legal affairs and trade policy.......................................................................................................... 11 Legislation ............................................................................................................................... 11 Wildlife trade policy reviews ...................................................................................................... 13 CITES and livelihoods ............................................................................................................... 13 Incentives for implementing the Convention ................................................................................ 13 Enforcement................................................................................................................................. 15 Orangutans.............................................................................................................................. 15 Big cats................................................................................................................................... 15 Ivory ....................................................................................................................................... 15 Other activities......................................................................................................................... 16 Science........................................................................................................................................ 17 Assistance to Scientific Authorities ............................................................................................ 17 Assistance and support to the technical committees .................................................................... 17 Non-detriment findings.............................................................................................................. 17 The Review of Significant Trade ................................................................................................ 17 Assistance with the development and implementation of quota systems........................................ 18 Conference of the Parties.......................................................................................................... 18 Outreach and cooperation with other multilateral environmental agreements .................................. 18 (i) Capacity building .......................................................................................................................... 19 Development of training material and distance learning ................................................................ 19 Identification Manual ................................................................................................................ 20 Meetings and training seminars.................................................................................................. 20 MIKE....................................................................................................................................... 21 E-permitting ............................................................................................................................. 21 Outreach...................................................................................................................................... 23 CITES website ......................................................................................................................... 23 CITES World ............................................................................................................................ 23 Media...................................................................................................................................... 23 Annex 1 – CITES Strategic Vision: 2008-2013................................................................................ 24 Annex 2 – Organigram of the CITES Secretariat in 2007 .................................................................. 27 Annex 3 – Status of contributions to the CITES Trust Fund in 2007 .................................................. 28 Annex 4 – Certified accounts of the Trust Fund of the Convention for 2007 ...................................... 33 Annex 5 – List of meetings organized by the CITES Secretariat or in which it participated in 2007 ....... 34 Annex 6 – List of Parties ............................................................................................................... 36 Annex 7 – List of Parties having accepted the Amendment to Article XI of the Convention adopted at Bonn (Germany), 22 June 1979 ................................................................................................. 41 Annex 8 – List of Parties having accepted the Amendment to Article XXI of the Convention adopted at Gaborone (Botswana), on 30 April 1983......................................................................... 46 (ii) Foreword from the Secretary-General 2007 was an important year for CITES, with a very successful meeting of the Conference of the Parties in The Hague. The Conference of the Parties adopted – next to a multitude of other resolutions and decisions – two decisions of particular importance for the future of the Convention. The Strategic Vision for 2007-2012 sets out the medium-term plans of the Parties for the implementation of the Convention and is attached as Annex 1 to this report. Based on the Strategic Vision, the Conference of the Parties approved the Costed Programme of Work for the triennium 2009-2011, which establishes the roadmap for the Secretariat’s activities during these years. This new approach to budgeting is clear, transparent, and result-based. It also allows for greater accountability where overall funding of these activities is concerned. In view of the financial situation of many Parties, the Programme of Work had to be reduced and made to a large extent dependent on external funding. The Secretariat, in spite of the fact that it has also had to reduce staff, has therefore taken measures to increase drastically its resource mobilization efforts with promising preliminary results. I hope you will find the summary in this report of the many activities of the Secretariat in 2007 of interest. Willem Wijnstekers Secretary-General CITES Secretariat Annual Report for 2007 – p. 1 Administration and finance Structure and organization The CITES Secretariat is administered by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and is located at Geneva, Switzerland,