EN Official Journal of the European Union L 290/1

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 997/2010

of 5 November 2010

suspending the introduction into the Union of specimens of certain species of wild fauna and flora

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 of 9 December 1996 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein (1), and in particular Article 19(2) thereof,

After consulting the Scientific Review Group,

Whereas:

(1) Article 4(6) of Regulation (EC) No 338/97 provides that the Commission may establish restrictions to the introduction of certain species into the Union in accordance with the conditions laid down in points (a) to (d) thereof. Furthermore, implementing measures for such restrictions have been laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No 865/2006 of 4 May 2006 laying down detailed rules concerning the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 of the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein (2).

(2) A list of species for which the introduction into the Union is suspended was established in Commission Regulation (EC) No 359/2009 of 30 April 2009 suspending the introduction into the Union of specimens of certain species of wild fauna and flora (3).

(3) On the basis of recent information, the Scientific Review Group has concluded that the conservation status of certain species listed in Annexes A and B to Regulation (EC) No 338/97 will be seriously jeopardised if their introduction into the Union from certain countries of origin is not suspended. The introduction of the following species should therefore be suspended: — Cuora amboinensis from Vietnam; — Cuora galbinifrons from Laos and Vietnam; — Dendrobium nobile from Laos.

(4) The Scientific Review Group has also concluded that, on the basis of the most recent available information, the suspension of the introduction into the Union of the following species should no longer be required: — Ovis ammon nigrimontana (Hunting trophies) from Kazakhstan; — Leucopternis occidentalis from Ecuador and Peru; — Hexaprotodon liberiensis from Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone; — Hippopotamus amphibius from Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi; — Chrysocyon brachyurus from Bolivia and Peru; — Eupleres goudotii, Fossa fossana, Anas bernieri, Mantella baroni, Mantella aff. baroni, Mantella cowanii, Mantella haraldmeieri, Mantella laevigata, Mantella madagascariensis, Mantella manery, Mantella nigricans and Mantella pulchra from Madagascar; — Leopardus colocolo and Leopardus pajeros from Chile; — Leptailurus serval from Algeria; — Prionailurus bengalensis from China (Macau); — Cynogale bennettii from Brunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand; — Equus zebra hartmannae from Angola; — Myrmecophaga tridactyla from Belize and Uruguay; — Alouatta macconnelli from Trinidad and Tobago; — Ateles paniscus, Chalcostigma olivaceum, Heliodoxa rubinoides, Buteo albonotatus, Buteo platypterus, Forpus xanthops, Pionus chalcopterus, Otus roboratus, Pseudoscops clamator, Pulsatrix melanota and Podocnemis sextuberculata from Peru; — Lagothrix cana and Varanus yemenensis from all range States; — Cebus capucinus from Belize; — Cercocebus atys from Ghana; — Cercopithecus ascanius from Burundi; — Cercopithecus cephus from Central African Republic; — Cercopithecus dryas, Glaucidium capense and Phodilus prigoginei from Democratic Republic of the Congo; — Cercopithecus pogonias and Cercopithecus preussi from Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea; — Colobus polykomos from Côte d'Ivoire; — Colobus vellerosus from Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana; — Macaca arctoides from India, Malaysia and Thailand; — Macaca assamensis from Nepal; — Macaca fascicularis from Bangladesh and India; — Macaca leonina, Ratufa bicolor, Psittacula roseata and Strix uralensis davidi from China; — Macaca maura, Macaca nigra, Macaca nigrescens, Macaca ochreata, Macaca pagensis, Goura cristata, Goura scheepmakeri, Goura victoria, Spizaetus bartelsi, Cacatua sanguinea, Lorius domicella, Alisterus chloropterus chloropterus, Eclectus roratus, Psittacula alexandri, Tanygnathus gramineus, Ninox rudolfi, Otus angelinae, Tyto inexspectata, Tyto nigrobrunnea, Tyto sororcula, Ornithoptera tithonus, Troides andromache (wild and ranched specimens) and Tridacna gigas from Indonesia; — Papio anubis from Libya; — Papio papio from Guinea Bissau — Procolobus verus from Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Togo; — Trachypithecus phayrei from Cambodia, China and India; — Trachypithecus vetulus from Sri Lanka; — Galago demidoff from Burkina Faso and Central African Republic; — Galago granti from Malawi; — Arctocebus aureus from Central African Republic and Gabon; — Nycticebus pygmaeus from Cambodia and Laos; — Chiropotes chiropotes, Chiropotes israelita, Chiropotes satanas, Chiropotes utahickae, Nannopsittaca panychlora, Pyrrhura leucotis, Touit melanonotus, Touit surdus and Eunectes deschauenseei from Brazil; — Ratufa affinis and Ketupa ketupu from Singapore; — Balaeniceps rex from Zambia; — Buceros rhinoceros from Thailand; — Tauraco corythaix, Agapornis fischeri (ranched specimens) and Python sebae from Mozambique; — Tauraco fischeri, Agapornis lilianae, Poicephalus cryptoxanthus, Poicephalus meyeri, Poicephalus rufiventris, Bubo vosseleri, Gongylophis colubrinus and Stigmochelys pardalis from Tanzania; — Tauraco macrorhynchus, Terathopius ecaudatus and Strix woodfordii from Guinea; — Tauraco porphyreolopha from Uganda; — Accipiter brachyurus, Tyto aurantia, Tyto manusi, Varanus bogerti and Varanus telenesetes from Papua New Guinea; — Accipiter gundlachi and Aratinga euops from Cuba; — Accipiter imitator and Nesasio solomonensis from Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands; — Buteo galapagoensis, Pyrrhura albipectus, Pyrrhura orcesi, Conolophus pallidus and Conolophus subcristatus from Ecuador; — Buteo ridgwayi from Dominican Republic and Haiti; — Erythrotriorchis radiatus, Lophoictinia isura, Polytelis alexandrae and Varanus keithhornie from Australia; — Gyps coprotheres from Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland; — Harpyopsis novaeguineae from Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; — Falco deiroleucus from Belize and Guatemala; — Falco fasciinucha from Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe; — Falco hypoleucos from Australia and Papua New Guinea; — Micrastur plumbeus from Colombia and Ecuador; — Polyplectron schleiermacheri from Indonesia and Malaysia; — Anthropoides virgo from Sudan; — Balearica regulorum from Angola, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Swaziland, Uganda; — Pitta nympha from Brunei Darussalam, China, North Korea, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and South Korea; — Pycnonotus zeylanicus from Malaysia; — Charmosyna aureicincta from Fiji; — Trichoglossus johnstoniae, Prioniturus luconensis, Bubo philippensis, Otus fuliginosus, Otus longicornis, Otus mindorensis and Otus mirus from Philippines; — Agapornis pullarius from Angola and Kenya; — Amazona agilis and Amazona collaria from Jamaica; — Amazona mercenaria from Venezuela; — Amazona xanthops from Bolivia and Paraguay; — Aratinga aurea from Argentina; — Bolborhynchus ferrugineifrons, Hapalopsittaca fuertesi, Pyrrhura calliptera and Pyrrhura viridicata from Colombia; — Poicephalus robustus from Botswana, Gambia, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa and Swaziland; — Psittacula finschii from Bangladesh and Cambodia; — Psittacus erithacus from Burundi, Mali and Togo; — Bubo blakistoni from China, Japan and Russia; — Ninox affinis from India; — Otus capnodes and Otus paulani from Comoros; — Otus insularis from Seychelles; — Scotopelia ussheri from Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone; — Heloderma horridum from Guatemala and Mexico; — Podocnemis erythrocephala from Colombia and Venezuela; — Podocnemis expansa from Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela; — Gopherus polyphemus from United States; — Manouria emys from Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Thailand; — Testudo horsfieldii from China and Pakistan; — Montipora caliculata from Tonga.

(5) The countries of origin of the species which are subject to new restrictions to introduction into the Union pursuant to this Regulation have all been consulted.

(6) At the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention new nomenclatural references (splitting of species and renaming of genus) for animals were adopted and are reflected accordingly in this Regulation.

(7) The list of species for which the introduction into the Union is suspended should therefore be amended and Regulation (EC) No 359/2009 should be, for reasons of clarity, replaced.

(8) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Subject to the provisions of Article 71 of Regulation (EC) No 865/2006, the introduction into the Union of specimens of the species of wild fauna and flora listed in the Annex to this Regulation is suspended.

Article 2

Regulation (EC) No 359/2009 is repealed.

References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 5 November 2010. For the Commission The President José Manuel BARROSO

(1) OJ L 61, 3.3.1997, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 166, 19.6.2006, p. 1.

(3) OJ L 110, 1.5.2009, p. 3.