98/145/EC: Council Decision of 12 February 1998 on the approval, on behalf of the European Community, of the amendments to Appendices I and II to the Bonn Convention on the conservation of migratory species of wild animals as decided by the fifth meeting of the Conference of the parties to the Convention
Date: 1998-02-12
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: bird, international convention, protected species, protection of animal life

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COUNCIL

COUNCIL DECISION

of 12 February 1998

on the approval, on behalf of the European Community, of the amendments to
Appendices I and II to the Bonn Convention on the conservation of migratory
species of wild animals as decided by the fifth meeting of the Conference of the
parties to the Convention

(98/145/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community and in particular Article 130s(1), in conjunc-
tion with the first sentence of Article 228(2) and the first
subparagraph of Article 228(3) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia-
ment (2),

Whereas the European Community is a Contracting
Party to the Convention on the Conservation of Migrat-
ory Species of Wild Animals following Decision 82/
461/EEC (3);

Whereas at the Fifth Meeting of the Conference of the
Parties, held in Geneva on 10 to 16 April 1997,
twenty-one threatened migratory species were added to
Appendix I to the Convention and twenty-two species
were added to Appendix II to the Convention; whereas
the Commission participated in this meeting on behalf of
the Community;

Whereas eleven of the species are covered by Council
Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conserva-
tion of wild birds (4);

Whereas, pursuant to Article XI of the Convention, an
amendment to the Appendices of the Convention shall
enter into force for all Parties ninety days after the
meeting of the Conference of the Parties at which it was
adopted, except for those Parties which make a reserva-
tion in accordance with paragraph 6 of that Article;

(1) OJ C 267, 3. 9. 1997, p. 66.
(2) OJ C 339, 10. 11. 1997.
(3) OJ L 210, 19. 7. 1982, p. 10.
(4) OJ L 103, 25. 4. 1979, p. 1.

Whereas it is necessary for the Community to approve
the amendments to Appendices I and II to the Conven-
tion adopted at the Fifth Meeting of the Contracting
Parties, as laid down in Article XI of the Convention,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The inclusion of
the species Lutra provocax, Lutra
felina, Pontoporia blainvillei, Hippocamelus bisulcus,
Spheniscus humboldti, Diomedea amsterdamensis, Phoe-
jamesi, Anser
nicoparrus andinus, Phoenicoparrus
erythropus, Branta ruficollis, Marmaronetta angustir-
ostris, Aythya nyroca, Polysticta stelleri, Aquila clanga,
Aquila heliaca, Falco naumanni, Sarothrura ayresi,
Chettusia gregaria, Larus atlanticus, Hirundo atrocaer-
ulea, Acrocephalus paludicola in Appendix I to the
Convention on the conservation of migratory species of
wild animals and of the species Phocoena spinipinnis,
Phocoena drioptica, Cephalorhynchus eutropia, Lagenor-
hynchus
demersus, Diomedea
exulans, Diomedea epomophora, Diomedea irrorata,
Diomedea nigripes, Diomedea immutabilis, Diomedea
melanophris, Diomedea
cauta,
Diomedea chlororhynchos, Diomedea chrysostoma, Phoe-
betria fusca, Phoebetria palpebrata, Sarothrura ayresi,
Crex crex, Amazona tucumana, Hirundo atrocaerulea,
Acrocephalus paludicola, in Appendix II to the Conven-
tion is hereby approved on behalf of
the European
Community.

bulleri, Diomedea

Spheniscus

obscurus,

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This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 12 February 1998.

For the Council

The President

J. BATTLE