2.7 Lesson Summary

Lesson Summary

To recap, you've learned that:

• CITES is an international agreement, between more than 181 countries and the European Union (Parties), aimed at protecting endangered species through the regulation of trade;

• the Management Authority of each country is responsible for enforcing CITES;

• the Customs plays an important role by administering CITES controls for all specimens entering or leaving a country;

• protected species and the protection each is afforded are listed in the Appendices to the Convention;

• the terms species, subspecies and geographically separate population, specimen, parts and derivatives are some of the more common terminology used terms when describing CITES-related goods; and

• the legal basis for your authority to administer CITES is found in your national Customs and/or CITES legislation.

Now that you are familiar with the more fundamental aspects of CITES, click on the elephant to move to the next lesson CITES Protected Species.