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Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species

Volume 508: debated on Wednesday 7 April 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how (a) the UK and (b) the EU voted on each agenda item at the recent CITES conference of parties in Doha. (325680)

While the majority of items discussed at the 15 Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Doha were agreed by consensus after discussions, several were voted upon. The following table indicates which these were and how the UK and the EU voted on each of those occasions. In all but one instance the UK and the EU votes were the same. The voting record is as follows:

Agenda item

Vote

UK

EU

18.

Review of Resolutions

Annex 10: Conf. 12.2 - Procedure for approval of externally funded projects

Vote in plenary to reopen debate

No

No

19.

Review of Decisions

Vote in Committee II on Decision 14.81

No

No

41.

Applications to register operations that breed Appendix-I animal species in captivity for commercial purposes

41.1

Consideration of operations subject to an objection

Annex 1: Application from Birds International, Inc. (Philippines) to register Amazona barbadensis

Vote in Committee II

Abstain

Abstain

Annex 2: Application from Birds International, Inc. (Philippines) to register Ara ambigua

Vote in Committee II

Abstain

Abstain

Annex 3: Application from Birds International, Inc. (Philippines) to register Ara macao

Vote in Committee II

Abstain

Abstain

Annex 4: Application from Birds International, Inc. (Philippines) to register Cacatua sulphurea abbotti

Vote in Committee II

Abstain

Abstain

Vote in Plenary

Yes

Yes

Annex 5: Application from Birds International, Inc. (Philippines) to register Cacatua sulphurea citrinocristata

Vote in Committee II

Abstain

Abstain

Vote in Plenary

Yes

Yes

Annex 6: Application from Birds International, Inc. (Philippines) to register Cacatua sulphurea sulphurea

Vote in Committee II

Abstain

Abstain

Vote in Plenary

Yes

Yes

Annex 7: Application from Birds International, Inc. (Philippines) to register Cacatua moluccensis

Vote in Committee II

Abstain

Abstain

Vote in Plenary

Yes

Yes

Annex 12: Application from Pacific Northwest Falcons (United States) to register Falco rusticolus and F. peregrinus x F. rusticolus

Vote in Committee II

Yes

Yes

Annex 13: Application from David Knutson (United States) to register Falco peregrinus

Vote in Committee II

Yes

Yes

Annex 14: Application from Hollister Longwings (United States) to register Falco rusticolus, F. peregrinus and F. rusticolus x F. peregrinus

Vote in Committee II

Yes

Yes

41.2

Request from the Philippines regarding Birds International (Philippines)

Vote in Committee II

Abstain

Abstain

53.

Conservation and management of sharks and stingrays

Vote in Committee I

Yes

Yes

68.

Proposals to amend Appendices I and II

2

Lynx rufus (United States of America) Bobcat

Vote in Committee I

No

No

3

Ursus maritimus (United States of America) Polar bear

Vote in Committee I

No

No

4

Loxodonta africana (United Republic of Tanzania)

Vote in Committee I on downlisting

African elephant

Abstain

Abstain

Vote in Committee I on allowing one off ivory sale

No

No

Vote in Plenary on downlisting only

Abstain

Abstain

5

Loxodonta africana (Zambia) African elephant NB After the vote against allowing a one-off sale of ivory in Tanzania, Zambia withdrew its application for a one-off sale

Vote in Committee I on downlisting

Abstain

Abstain

Vote in Plenary on downlisting

Abstain

Abstain

6

Loxodonta africana (Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mali and Sierra Leone) African elephant

Vote in Committee I

No

No

9

Crocodylus niloticus (Egypt) Nile crocodile

Vote in Committee I

No

No

Reopened in Plenary

Adopted by consensus

10

Uromastyx ornata (Israel) Ornate Dabb lizard

Withdrawn

15

Sphyrna lewini Sphyrna mokarran Sphyrna zygaena Carcharhinus plumbeus Carcharhinus obscurus (Palau and the United States of America) Sharks

Vote in Committee I

Yes

Yes

Vote in Plenary

Yes

Yes

16

Carcharhinus longimanus (Palau and the United States of America) Whitetip shark

Vote in Committee I

Yes

Yes

17

Lamna nasus (Palau and Sweden1) Porbeagle

Vote in Committee I

Yes

Yes

Vote in Plenary

Yes

Yes

18

Squalus acanthias (Palau and Sweden1) Spiny dogfish

Vote in Committee I

Yes

Yes

19

Thunnus thynnus (Monaco)

Vote in Committee I on EU proposal

Bluefin tuna

Yes

Yes

Vote in Committee I on original Monaco proposal

Yes

Abstain

21

Coralliidae Corallium spp. and Paracorallium spp.) (Sweden1 and the United States of America) Red and pink corals

Vote in Committee I

Yes

Yes

1 On behalf of the European Community member states acting in the interest of the European Community.