Compliance plans have been used in the context of CITES to address the development of adequate legislation, the improved management of Appendix-II species that are subject to siginificant levels of legal trade, the strengthening of enforcement measures to deal with illegal trade, and the payment of contributions to the CITES Trust Fund.
A CITES Legislation Plan, for example, should include: the legal form of enactment (legislative or regulatory); the precise scope and content of the proposed legislation; the schedule for transmittal of the draft legislation to the CITES Secretariat for comment (e.g., on whether it fully meets the four minimum requirements for implementation of the Convention described in Resolution Conf. 8.4); the legislative and administrative steps that must be taken to adopt the legislation; and the timeframes for initiating and completing each stage of the law-making process.
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