CITES in Europe

Gordon Wells (wells@ic.upc.es)
Mon, 17 Jun 1996 10:53:04 UTC+0200

On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Andreas Wistuba wrote:

> I still do not understand the problem. As long as you have CITES
> permits for those plants or you can prove that they are artificially
> propagated everything should be fine......it's at least like that in
> Europe. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^

It's my understanding (based on information from several major
British CP nurseries) that under the current EEC agreements,
CITES permits are no longer necessary for the trade of plants
within the European Community. Does anyone have any solid
information to refute this ?

Gordon Wells
Instituto de Cibernetica
Diagonal 647, planta 2
Barcelona 08028
SPAIN