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Hargreaves, R.
Independent Pro Bono Legal Analysis for Item 38 on the Agenda for the 65th Meeting of the CITES Standing Committee concerning Asian Big Cats
2014  Manuscript

The writer has prepared the following report for the assistance of the CITES Standing Committee at its sixty-fifth meeting in Geneva, Switzerland from 7-11 July 2014. This report is specifically with regard to the Standing Committee's deliberations under Agenda item 38 concerning Asian big cats. The writer has read and reviewed the Asian big cats documents posted on the CITES website, under Agenda item 38, for the present meeting and also the Environmental Investigation Agency's document titled 'EIA Briefing Document on Asian big cats for the 65th Meeting of the CITES Standing Committee'. For the purposes of this report it can generally be taken as read that the writer agrees with the Environmental Investigation Agency's recommendations and proposed amendments of the Secretariat's recommendations in SC65 Doc. 38, as set out in their briefing document referred to above2. The only exceptions to this are where the writer's recommendations below differ slightly as to the approach to be taken concerning Decision 14.69 and the guidance in the Annex to Notification 2008/059. The writer also makes additional recommendations with regard to the worrying trade lion 'bodies', 'bone' and 'skeletons', the scale of which should not be underestimated. Aside from the matters covered in this report the writer also observes generally that the terminology used for the Secretariat's recommendations under Agenda item 38 could usefully be strengthened from e.g. requesting reviews of implementation to instructing implementation where it is clear this has been lacking or even non-existent.

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