We were determined to distinguish the critical from the helpful, the vital from the optional, the exciting from the interesting, the promised from the promising. [...] Each and every CITES Party is obligated to meet three conditions of the Convention in granting export permits for that species (in addition to other obligations under the treaty): (1) the export is not detrimental to the persistence of wild populations of the species (called making a non- detriment finding or NDF); (2) the specimens in trade have been legally acquired (called making a legal acquis. [...] The CITES Standing Committee (SC: the CITES senior committee that steers the works of the Convention between meetings of the CoP) evaluates a Party’s progress against these recommendations and decides next steps, whether to release the Party from review 18 Implementing CITES Appendix II listings for marine fishes: a novel framework and a constructive analysis or recommend a trade suspension (effec. [...] The overall aim of this project was to strengthen capacities of Indonesia, Thailand and Viet Nam to implement the Convention for seahorses and satisfy the CITES-related requirements of importing countries and other trading partners (such as the European Union). [...] The funding was provided in direct response to Decision 18.229 paragraph c) i) (details in Action by CITES as a whole, below), and supported Project Seahorse to (i) prepare and contribute studies of the live and dried trades in seahorses and (ii) organize a technical workshop or consultation process to validate the results of the studies.
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