The Management Authority must indicate on the CITES document the source of the specimen using one of the following codes, except the code “O” for pre-Convention, which may be used in conjunction with another code:
| Source of specimen
| Code
|
|---|
(a) Artificially propagated plant (see § 23.40):
(1) An Appendix-II or -III artificially propagated specimen.
(2) An Appendix-I plant specimen artificially propagated for noncommercial purposes or certain Appendix-I hybrids (see § 23.42) propagated for commercial purposes. | A
|
(b) Bred-in-captivity wildlife (see § 23.41):
(1) An Appendix-II or -III specimen bred in captivity. (See paragraph (d)(1) of this section for wildlife that does not qualify as bred in captivity.)
(2) An Appendix-I specimen bred for noncommercial purposes. (See paragraph (c)(1) of this section for an Appendix-I specimen bred for commercial purposes.) | C
|
(c) Bred in captivity or artificially propagated for commercial purposes (see §§ 23.46 and 23.47):
(1) An Appendix-I wildlife specimen bred in captivity for commercial purposes at an operation registered with the Secretariat.
(2) An Appendix-I plant specimen artificially propagated for commercial purposes at a nursery that is registered with the Secretariat or a commercial propagating operation that meets the requirements of § 23.47. | D
|
(d) Captive-bred wildlife (§ 23.36):
(1) An Appendix-II or -III wildlife species that is captive-bred.
(2) An Appendix-I wildlife species that is one of the following:
(i) Captive-bred (see § 23.5).
(ii) Bred for commercial purposes, but the commercial breeding operation is not registered with the Secretariat. | F
|
| (e) Confiscated or seized specimen (see § 23.78). | I
|
| (f) Pre-Convention specimen (see § 23.45) (code may be used in conjunction with another code). | O
|
| (g) Ranched wildlife (see § 23.5). | R
|
| (h) Source unknown (must be justified on the face of the CITES document). | U
|
(i) Specimen taken from the wild:
(1) For wildlife, this includes a specimen born in captivity from an egg collected from the wild or from wildlife that mated or exchanged genetic material in the wild.
(2) For a plant, it includes a specimen propagated from a propagule collected from a wild plant, except as provided in § 23.64. | W
|
| (j) Specimens taken in the marine environment not under the jurisdiction of any country (see § 23.39) | X
|
| (k) Assisted production plant (see § 23.5) | Y |
authority: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (March 3, 1973), 27 U.S.T. 1087; and Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended,
16 U.S.C. 1531
source: 72 FR 48448, Aug. 23, 2007, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 50 CFR 23.24