COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Listing of CITES Species

Declaration of Stricter Domestic Measure
 

I, David Kemp, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, pursuant to subsection 303CB(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, hereby declare that the list of CITES species established under subsection 303CA(1) of the Act has effect as if the populations of the species Loxodonta africana (African Elephant) that are included in Appendix II to CITES are included in Appendix I to CITES.

Dated this   10th     day of     December       2002

DAVID KEMP

Minister for the Environment and Heritage

Notes:

CITES means the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora made at Washington on 3 March 1973, as amended and in force for Australia from time to time.

This declaration takes effect upon publication in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette.