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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2117/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2019/2117",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/2117 of 29 November 2019 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2117",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/2117\nof 29 November 2019\namending Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 of 9 December 1996 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein, and in particular Article 19(5) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nRegulation (EC) No 338/97 regulates trade in animal and plant species listed in the Annex to the Regulation. The species listed in the Annex include the species set out in the Appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) (‘the Convention’) as well as species whose conservation status requires that trade from, into and within the Union be regulated or monitored.\n(2)\nAt the 18th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 17 to 28 August 2019 (CoP 18), certain amendments were made to the Appendices to the Convention. These amendments should be reflected in the Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 338/97.\n(3)\nThe following taxa were included in Appendix I to the Convention and should be included in Annex A to Regulation (EC) No 338/97: Ceratophora erdeleni, Ceratophora karu, Ceratophora tennentii, Cophotis ceylanica, Cophotis dumbara, Gonatodes daudini, Achillides chikae hermeli and Parides burchellanus.\n(4)\nThe following species were transferred from Appendix II to Appendix I to the Convention and should be removed from Annex B and included in Annex A to Regulation (EC) No 338/97: Aonyx cinerea, Lutrogale perspicillata, Balearica pavonina, Cuora bourreti, Cuora picturata, Mauremys annamensis and Geochelone elegans. Malacochersus tornieri was transferred from Appendix II to Appendix I; the species is already included in Annex A and only the reference to the relevant Appendix should be changed.\n(5)\nThe following taxa were transferred from Appendix I to Appendix II to the Convention and should be removed from Annex A and included in Annex B to Regulation (EC) No 338/97: Vicugna vicugna (population of the Province of Salta, Argentina, with annotation), Leporillus conditor, Pseudomys fieldi praeconis (with nomenclature change to Pseudomys fieldi), Xeromys myoides, Zyzomys pedunculatus, Dasyornis broadbenti litoralis, Dasyornis longirostris and Crocodylus acutus (population of Mexico, with annotation).\n(6)\nThe following family, genera and species were included in Appendix II to the Convention and should be included in Annex B to Regulation (EC) No 338/97: Giraffa camelopardalis, Syrmaticus reevesii, Ceratophora aspera (with annotation), Ceratophora stoddartii (with annotation), Lyriocephalus scutatus (with annotation), Goniurosaurus spp., (with annotation), Gekko gecko, Paroedura androyensis, Ctenosaura spp. (four species of this genus were included in Appendix II previously and have now become part of the genus listing), Pseudocerastes urarachnoides, Echinotriton chinhaiensis, Echinotriton maxiquadratus, Paramesotriton spp. (one species of this genus was included in Appendix II previously and has now become part of the genus listing), Tylototriton spp., Isurus oxyrinchus, Isurus paucus, Glaucostegus spp., Rhinidae spp., Holothuria fuscogilva (with delayed implementation), Holothuria nobilis (with delayed implementation), Holothuria whitmaei (with delayed implementation), Poecilotheria spp., Widdringtonia whytei, Pterocarpus tinctorius (with annotation), Cedrela spp. (with annotation and with delayed implementation).\n(7)\nSyrmaticus reevesii, Ctenosaura quinquecarinata, Paramesotriton spp. and Tylototriton spp., which were so far listed in Annex D to Regulation (EC) No 338/97, should be removed from that Annex following their inclusion in Appendix II to the Convention at CoP 18.\n(8)\nThe interpretation section of the Appendices was amended, and a number of annotations relating to several taxa included in the Appendices of the Convention were adopted or amended at CoP 18 and also need to be reflected in the Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 338/97.\n(a) The following annotations were included:\nan annotation for the species Saiga tatarica and Saiga borealis listed in Appendix II, and\nthe annotation #17 (to replace Annotation #5) for the species Pericopsis elata listed in Appendix II.\n(b) The following annotations were amended:\nthe annotation for the species Vicugna vicugna listed in Appendix II,\nthe annotation #4 f) for the species Aloe ferox listed in Appendix II,\nthe annotation #16 for the listing of Adansonia grandidieri in Appendix II, and\nthe annotation #15 for the listing in Appendix II of the genus Dalbergia spp. and the species Guibourtia demeusei, Guibourtia pellegriniana, Guibourtia tessmannii.\n(9)\nDefinitions of the terms ‘Finished musical instruments’, ‘Finished musical instrument accessories’, ‘Finished musical instrument parts‘, ‘Shipment’ and ‘Transformed wood’ should be included in the ‘Notes on interpretation of Annexes A, B, C and D’, as those definitions were adopted at CoP 18.\n(10)\nThe following species were recently included in Appendix III to the Convention: Sphaerodactylus armasi, Sphaerodactylus celicara, Sphaerodactylus dimorphicus, Sphaerodactylus intermedius, Sphaerodactylus nigropunctatus alayoi, Sphaerodactylus nigropunctatus granti, Sphaerodactylus nigropunctatus lissodesmus, Sphaerodactylus nigropunctatus ocujal, Sphaerodactylus nigropunctatus strategus, Sphaerodactylus notatus atactus, Sphaerodactylus oliveri, Sphaerodactylus pimienta, Sphaerodactylus ruibali, Sphaerodactylus siboney, Sphaerodactylus torrei, Anolis agueroi, Anolis baracoae, Anolis barbatus, Anolis chamaeleonides, Anolis equestris, Anolis guamuhaya, Anolis luteogularis, Anolis pigmaequestris, Anolis porcus, all at the request of Cuba. These species should therefore be included in Annex C to Regulation (EC) No 338/97.\n(11)\nThe following species were recently removed from Appendix III to the Convention: Galictis vittata, Bassaricyon gabbii, Bassariscus sumichrasti, Cabassous centralis, Choloepus hoffmanni, Sciurus deppei and Crax rubra (only the population of Costa Rica), all at the request of Costa Rica. The reference to Costa Rica in the listing of Crax rubra and these other species should therefore be removed from Annex C to Regulation (EC) No 338/97.\n(12)\nThe Union has not entered a reservation in respect of any of those amendments.\n(13)\nAt CoP 18, new nomenclatural references for animals and plants were adopted, which relate in particular to a number of species of the genus Ovis and several species belonging to the family Felidae. These changes need to be reflected in the Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 338/97, while maintaining the currently applicable stricter EU measures for imports of the species previously described as Ovis ammon, in line with Annex XIII to Commission Regulation (EC) No 865/2006.\n(14)\nCertain species names (both English and Latin) should be corrected to reflect the current practice in their use.\n(15)\nFurther corrections should be made in existing annotations, in particular the annotation ‘(possibly extinct)’ should be removed from the listing of four species, in line with amendments made at CoP 17.\n(16)\nIn view of the extent of these amendments it is appropriate, for reasons of clarity, to replace the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 338/97 in its entirety.\n(17)\nRegulation (EC) No 338/97 should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(18)\nArticle XV.1(c) of the Convention states that ‘amendments adopted at a meeting [of the Conference of the Parties] shall enter into force 90 days after that meeting for all Parties’. In order to meet that deadline and ensure the timely entry into force of the changes to the Annex to this Regulation, the entry into force of this Regulation should be on the third day following that of its publication.\n(19)\nThe measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora established pursuant to Article 18(1) of Regulation (EC) No 338/97,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
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  "status": null,
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 61, 3.3.1997, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 865/2006 of 4 May 2006 laying down detailed rules concerning the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 (OJ L 166, 19.6.2006, p. 1)."
    }
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