Proposals for Amendments of the CMS Appendices

Appendices I and II of the Convention may be amended at any meeting of the Conference of the Parties. Amendments consist of migratory species or their populations being added to or removed from the Appendices. Proposals for amendment can be submitted by any Contracting Party, in accordance with the procedure defined in Article XI of the Convention. The Conference of the Parties decides whether to accept or reject a proposal, taking into account the advice of the CMS Scientific Council. Resolution 11.33 provides guidelines for assessing proposals for the amendment of the Appendices.

Proposals for amendment of the Appendices have to be compiled according to a standard format. Through Resolution 1.5, the 1st Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP1) defined the format which has been in use up until COP11. Through Resolution 11.33, COP11 requested the CMS Scientific Council and the Secretariat to update Resolution 1.5 by developing a new template and guidelines for the drafting of listing proposals in line with the guidelines for the assessment of proposals for amendment, for adoption by the Standing Committee in time for its use for proposals to be submitted to the Conference of the Parties at its 12th Meeting. The new format for proposals to amend CMS Appendices was adopted by the Standing Committee at its 45th meeting. It can be downloaded through the link here below.

This page includes the final version of all proposals submitted to meetings of the Conference of the Parties since COP1, in descending chronological order. The same documents are available from the web pages of individual meetings of the CMS Conference of the Parties.

 

Notification 2016/037 Proposals to Amend the Appendices of CMS

Format for proposals to amend CMS Appendices EN

Modèle pour les propositions d'amendement des Annexes FR

Modelo de propuestas para enmendar los Apéndices ES

Document Number Title Publish date
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.2/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 22 August 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.1/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 04 August 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.3/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 04 August 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.4/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 02 August 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.11/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 02 August 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.4/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 02 August 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.14/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 02 August 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.12/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 01 August 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.10/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 01 August 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.13/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 01 August 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.9/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 01 August 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.7/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 01 August 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.5/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 31 July 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.6/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 31 July 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.8/Add.1 Scientific Council Comments 31 July 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.14 Proposal for the Inclusion of the Laulao Catfish or Piramuta (Brachyplatystoma vaillantii) in Appendix II of the Convention 13 June 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.13 Proposal for the Inclusion of the Gilded Catfish (Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii) in Appendix II of the Convention 12 June 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.12 Proposal for the Inclusion of the Lusitanian Cownose Ray (Rhinoptera marginata) in Appendix II and the Mediterranean Sea Population of this Species in Appendix I of the Convention 12 June 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.11 Proposal for the Inclusion of the Bull Ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus) in Appendix II and the Mediterranean Sea Population of this Species in Appendix I of the Convention 12 June 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.10 Proposal for the Inclusion of the Blackchin Guitarfish (Glaucostegus cemiculus) in Appendix II and the Mediterranean Sea Population of this Species in Appendix I of the Convention 12 June 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.9/Rev.2 Proposal for the Inclusion of the Sand Tiger Shark (Carcharias taurus) in Appendix I and II of the Convention 13 February 2024
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.8 Proposal for the Inclusion of the Southern African Population of the Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus meridionalis) in Appendix I of the Convention 12 June 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.7/Rev.1 Proposal for the Inclusion of the Magellanic Plover (Pluvianellus socialis) in Appendix I of the Convention 29 November 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.6 Proposal for the Inclusion of the Peruvian Pelican (Pelecanus thagus) in Appendix I and II of the Convention 27 June 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.5 Proposal for the Inclusion of the Baltic Proper Population of the Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in Appendix I of the Convention 12 June 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.4 Proposal for the Inclusion of Lahille’s Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus gephyreus) in Appendix I and II of the Convention 15 June 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.3 Proposal for the Inclusion of the Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) in Appendix II of the Convention 27 June 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.2/Rev.1 Proposal for the Inclusion of the Pallas’s Cat (Felis manul) in Appendix II of the Convention 19 October 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP14/Doc.31.4.1/Rev.1 Proposal for the inclusion of the Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) in Appendix II and Balkan Lynx (Lynx lynx balcanicus) in Appendix I of the Convention 23 November 2023
UNEP/CMS/COP13/Doc.27.1.10/Add.2 Additional Comments submitted by the European Union 09 January 2020