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Convention on International Trade In Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Washington 1973 as amended on 22 June 1979 and 30 April 1983
Article I - Definitions
Article II - Fundamental Principles
Article III - Regulation of Trade in Specimens of Species Included in Appendix I
Article IV - Regulation of Trade in Specimens of Species Included in Appendix II
Article V - Regulation of Trade in Specimens of Species Included in Appendix III
Article VI - Permits and Certificates
Article VII - Exemptions and Other Special Provisions Relating to Trade
Article VIII - Measures to be Taken by the Parties
Article IX - Management and Scientific Authorities
Article X - Trade with States not Party to the Convention
Article XI - Conference of the Parties
Article XII - The Secretariat
Article XIII - International Measures
Article XIV - Effect on Domestic Legislation and International Conventions
Article XV - Amendments to Appendices I and II
Article XVI - Appendix III and Amendments Thereto
Article XVII - Amendment of the Convention
Article XVIII - Resolution of Disputes
Article XIX - Signature
Article XX - Ratification, Acceptance, Approval
Article XXI - Accession
Article XXII - Entry into Force
Article XXIII - Reservations
Article XXIV - Denunciation
Article XXV - Depositary
Endnotes
Endnotes
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Convention on International Trade In Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Washington 1973 as amended on 22 June 1979 and 30 April 1983
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1. The present Convention shall be open indefinitely for accession. Instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Depositary Government.
2. This Convention shall be open for accession by regional economic integration organizations constituted by sovereign States which have competence in respect of the negotiation, conclusion and implementation of international agreements in matters transferred to them by their Member States and covered by this Convention.
3. In their instruments of accession, such organizations shall declare the extent of their competence with respect to the matters governed by the Convention. These organizations shall also inform the Depositary Government of any substantial modification in the extent of their competence. Notifications by regional economic integration organizations concerning their competence with respect to matters governed by this Convention and modifications thereto shall be distributed to the Parties by the Depositary Government.
4. In matters within their competence, such regional integration organizations shall exercise the rights and fulfil the obligations which this Convention attributes to their Member States, which are Parties to the Convention. In such cases the Member States of the organizations shall not be entitled to exercise such rights individually.
5. In the fields of their competence, regional economic integration organizations shall exercise their right to vote with a number of votes equal to the number of their Member States which are Parties to the Convention. Such organizations shall not exercise their right to vote if their Member States exercise theirs, and vice versa.
6. Any reference to "Party" in the sense used in Article I(h) of this Convention to "State"/"States" or to "State Party"/"States Parties" to the Convention shall be construed as including a reference to any regional economic integration organization having competence in respect of the negotiation, conclusion and application of international agreements in matters covered by this Convention] 1
1. The paragraphs in square brackets are an amendment to the Convention which was adopted at an extraordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties in Gaborone (Botswana) on 30 April 1983. The amendment is not yet in force. It will enter into force when it has been formally accepted by 54 of the 80 States which were Parties to the Convention on that date.
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