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:

Open Table
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

[72 FR 48448, Aug. 23, 2007, as amended at 79 FR 30423, May 27, 2014]


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