COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/57
of 15 January 2015
amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 792/2012 as regards the rules for the design of permits, certificates and other documents provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein and in Commission Regulation (EC) No 865/2006 laying down detailed rules concerning the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having 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 (1), and in particular Article 19(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
In order to implement certain Resolutions adopted at the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) (3-14 March 2013), hereinafter ‘the Convention’, certain provisions should be amended and further provisions should be added to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 792/2012 (2).
(2)
In particular, in line with CITES Resolution Conf. 16.8, provisions should be inserted to allow for the issuing of specific certificates for musical instruments in order to simplify their non-commercial cross-border movements, and, in line with CITES Resolution Conf. 14.6, a new source code X should be established for ‘specimens taken in the marine environment not under the jurisdiction of any State’.
(3)
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 792/2012 should be amended accordingly.
(4)
As this Regulation should be used in conjunction with Regulation (EC) No 865/2006, it is important that both Regulations apply as of the same day.
(5)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 792/2012 is amended as follows:
(1)
Article 1 is amended as follows:
(a)
the following point 5a is inserted:
‘(5a)
musical instrument certificates;’
;
(b)
point 8 is replaced by the following:
‘(8)
continuation sheets for personal ownership certificates, for travelling exhibition certificates and for musical instrument certificates;’
;
(2)
in Article 2, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
‘1. The forms on which import permits, export permits, re-export certificates, personal ownership certificates, sample collection certificates and musical instrument certificates and applications for such documents are drawn up shall conform, except as regards spaces reserved for national use, to the model set out in Annex I.’
;
(3)
the Annexes are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 15 January 2015.