[MPWG] CITES and trade in orchids

[Emanuela Appetiti]

	Dear Anne,

	I think I can be of help. I am a member of the LI GROUP
PHYTOCOSMETICS [1] and last year I was in the organizing committee of
an international conference on Phytocosmetics and Phytotherapy, which
took place in Greece. In that context, I have co-organized a session
on history of Cosmetics in the ancient Mediterranean and after then I
have been involved in other events organized by the same group. This
has given me the opportunity to meet with a lot of people from all
over the world working and researching in the production of personal
care products, fragrance, and cosmetics, included R&D of big companies
like L'Oreal or Estee Lauder (for the sake of clarity, I am not in
this business). Frankly, I have no idea of their use of orchids, but
I'll be pleased to send you the contacts so that you can talk directly
to them and ask them to take the survey.

	Today is quite a busy day, but I'll do it tomorrow. I hope this
helps.

Thanks and warmest wishes,

Emanuela

Emanuela Appetiti, President & CEO
_INSTITUTE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MEDICAL TRADITIONS [2]_
FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK! [3]

----- Original Message -----
From:
 "St John Anne" <anne_stjohn at fws.gov>

To:
"De Angelis Patricia" <patricia_deangelis at fws.gov>,
<mpwg at lists.plantconservation.org>
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Sent:
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:56:05 -0500
Subject:
[MPWG] CITES and trade in orchids

	Dear Members of the Medicinal Plants Working Group,

	 

	Although we realize that most of the members of this email group are
not involved in the fragrance and personal care products industries,
we are hopeful that some of you work in those industries (or know
people who work in those industries) and would be able to assist us
with this exercise.  The Parties to the Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) are
examining the international trade in orchids and orchid products. 
All species of orchids are included in the CITES Appendices and are
listed in such a way that CITES documents are required to trade
internationally in all parts and derivatives except seeds, pollen, and
seedlings when shipped under certain conditions.  

	 

	For the personal care products, fragrance, and cosmetic industries,
this means that CITES export permits are required to trade
internationally in everything from the raw plant parts, to the
processed material and extract, to the finished products traded for
the retail trade.  The point of the current exercise is to determine
if it would be reasonable from a conservation standpoint to exempt
finished products from CITES controls, using the guiding principles
that CITES controls should focus on those commodities that first
appear in international trade as exports from range States and those
that dominate the trade and demand for the wild resource.  At the end
of the exercise, it may be possible to contemplate exempting finished
products for certain orchid species or higher taxa, for example, if
the range countries are exporting raw material and the additional
processing takes place in second and third countries; or if the
overwhelming majority of the trade in a particular species is in
artificially propagated specimens and it can be reasonably concluded
that the trade is not impacting wild populations.

	 

	To help inform these discussion, Switzerland, which is leading these
discussions in CITES, has developed a questionnaire (see here for a
link to the Notification to the Parties providing the background
information and key
links: https://www.cites.org/sites/default/files/notif/E-Notif-2018-004.pdf
[4] and this page for a link to the questionnaire - it is under
2018/004: https://www.cites.org/eng/notif/2014.php [5]
).  If you are involved in the personal care products, fragrance, or
cosmetics industries and use orchids in your products, we would
greatly appreciate receiving your answers to this questionnaire.  You
may answer the questionnaire directly using the link provided in the
Notification, submit the questionnaire to the Chair of the working
group using the email address provided in the Notification, or submit
your responses to us (please send to Anne St. John at
anne_stjohn at fws.gov [6]) and we will provide them to the working
group.  If you intend to answer using any of these options, we would
greatly appreciate being informed of your participation.  Thank you
for your assistance.

	 

	Regards,

	Anne St. John

-- 
Anne St. John, Biologist
Wildlife Trade and Conservation Branch

Division of Management Authority

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

5275 Leesburg Pike

Falls Church, VA 22041-3803

Email: anne_stjohn at fws.gov [7]

Tel: 703-358-1990

 

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[2] http://medicaltraditions.org/
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http://webmail.medicaltraditions.org/HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/PAGES/INSTITUTE-FOR-THE-PRESERVATION-OF-MEDICAL-TRADITIONS/294523497287143
[4]
https://www.cites.org/sites/default/files/notif/E-Notif-2018-004.pdf
[5] https://www.cites.org/eng/notif/2014.php
[6] mailto:anne_stjohn at fws.gov
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