Commission regulation (EC) No 865/2006Show full title

ANNEX VII

Codes to be included in the description of specimens and units of measure to be used in permits and certificates pursuant to Article 5(1) and (2)

Key to units (equivalent non-metric measurements may be used) g = grams kg = kilograms l = litres cm3 = cubic centimetres ml = millilitres m = metres m2 = square metres m3 = cubic metres Number = number of specimens
Description	Code	Preferred units	Alternative units	Explanation
Bark	BAR	kg		Tree bark (raw, dried or powdered; unprocessed)
Body	BOD	Number	kg	Substantially whole dead animals, including fresh or processed fish, stuffed turtles, preserved butterflies, reptiles in alcohol, whole stuffed hunting trophies, etc.
Bone	BON	kg	Number	Bones, including jaws
Calipee	CAL	kg		Calipee or calipash (turtle cartilage for soup)
Carapace	CAP	Number	kg	Raw or unworked whole shells of Testudinata species
Carving	CAR	kg	m3	Carvings (including wood, and including finished wood products such as furniture, musical instruments and handicrafts). NB: there are some species from which more than one type of product may be carved (e.g. horn and bone); where necessary, the description should therefore indicate the type of product (e.g. horn carving)
Caviar	CAV	kg		Unfertilised dead processed eggs from all species of Acipenseriformes; also known as roe
Chips	CHP	kg		Chips of timber, especially Aquilaria malaccensis and Pterocarpus santalinus
Claw	CLA	Number	kg	Claws — e.g. of Felidae, Ursidae or Crocodylia (NB: ‘turtle claws’ are usually scales and not real claws)
Cloth	CLO	m2	kg	Cloth — If the cloth is not made entirely from the hair of a CITES species, the weight of hair of the species concerned should instead, if possible, be recorded under ‘HAI’
Coral (raw)	COR	kg	Number	Dead coral and coral rock, NB: the trade should be recorded by number of pieces only if the coral specimens are transported in water.
Culture	CUL	Number of flasks, etc.		Cultures of artificially propagated plants
Derivatives	DER	kg/l		Derivatives (other than those included elsewhere in this table)
Dried plant	DPL	Number		Dried plants — e.g. herbarium specimens
Ear	EAR	Number		Ears — Usually elephant
Egg	EGG	Number	kg	Whole dead or blown eggs, (see also caviar)
Egg (live)	EGL	Number	kg	Live eggs — usually birds and reptiles but includes fish and invertebrates
Eggshell	SHE	g/kg		Raw or unworked eggshell except whole eggs
Extract	EXT	kg	L	Extract — usually plant extracts
Feather	FEA	kg/Number of wings	Number	Feathers — in the case of objects (e.g. pictures) made of feathers, record the number of objects
Fibre	FIB	kg	M	Fibres — e.g. plant fibre but includes strings of tennis rackets
Fin	FIN	kg		Fresh, frozen or dried fins and parts of fins
Fingerlings	FIG	kg	Number	Juvenile fish of one or two years of age for the aquarium trade, hatcheries or for release operations
Flower	FLO	kg		Flowers
Flower pot	FPT	Number		Flower pots made from parts of a plant, e.g. treefern fibres (NB: live plants traded in so-called ‘community pots’ should be recorded as ‘live plants’, not as flower pots)
Frogs' legs	LEG	kg		Frog legs
Fruit	FRU	kg		Fruit
Foot	FOO	Number		Feet — e.g. elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, lion, crocodile, etc.
Gall	GAL	kg		Gall
Gall bladder	GAB	Number	kg	Gall bladder
Garment	GAR	Number		Garments — including gloves and hats but not shoes. Includes trimming or decoration on garments
Genitalia	GEN	kg	Number	Castrates and dried penes
Graft rootstock	GRS	Number		Graft rootstocks (without the grafts)
Hair	HAI	kg	G	Hair — includes all animal hair, e.g. of elephant, yak, vicuña, guanaco
Horn	HOR	Number	kg	Horns — includes antlers
Leather product (small)	LPS	Number		Small manufactured products of leather, e.g. belts, braces, bicycle saddles, cheque book or credit card holders, earrings, handbags, key fobs, notebooks, purses, shoes tobacco pouches, wallets, watch-straps
Leather product (large)	LPL	Number		Large manufactured products of leather — e.g. briefcases, furniture, suitcases, travel trunks
Live	LIV	Number		Live animals and plants. Specimens of live coral transported in water should be recorded by number of pieces only.
Leaf	LVS	Number	kg	Leaves
Logs	LOG	m3		All wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared, for processing notably into sawn wood, pulpwood or veneer sheets. NB: trade in logs of special purpose timbers traded by weight (e.g. lignum vitae, Guaiacum spp.) should be recorded in kg.
Meat	MEA	kg		Meat, includes flesh of fish if not whole, (see ‘body’)
Medicine	MED	kg/l		Medicine
Musk	MUS	g		Musk
Oil	OIL	kg	L	Oil — e.g. from turtles, seals, whales, fish, various plants
Piece — bone	BOP	kg		Pieces of bone, not manufactured
Piece — horn	HOP	kg		Pieces of horn, not manufactured — includes scrap
Piece — ivory	IVP	kg		Ivory pieces, not manufactured — includes scrap
Plate	PLA	m2		Plates of fur-skins — includes rugs if made of several skins
Powder	POW	kg		Powder
Root	ROO	Number	kg	Roots, bulbs, corms or tubers
Sawn wood	SAW	m3		Wood simply sawn lengthwise or produced by a profile-chipping process; normally exceeds 6 mm in thickness. NB: trade in sawn wood of special purpose timbers traded by weight (e.g. lignum vitae, Guaiacum spp.) should be recorded in kg.
Scale	SCA	kg		Scale — e.g. of turtle, other reptiles, fish, pangolins
Seed	SEE	kg		Seeds
Shell	SHE	Number	kg	Raw or unworked shell of molluscs
Side	SID	Number		Sides or flanks of skins; does not include crocodilian Tinga frames (see under ‘skin’)
Skeleton	SKE	Number		Substantially whole skeletons
Skin	SKI	Number		Substantially whole skins, raw or tanned, including crocodilian Tinga frames
Skin piece	SKP	Number		Skin pieces — includes scraps, raw or tanned
Skull	SKU	Number		Skulls
Soup	SOU	kg	L	Soup — e.g. of turtle
Specimen (scientific)	SPE	kg/l/ml		Scientific specimens — includes blood, tissue, (e.g. kidney, spleen, etc.) histological preparations, etc.
Stem	STE	Number	kg	Plant stems
Swim bladder	SWI	kg		Hydrostatic organ, including isinglass/sturgeon glue
Tail	TAI	Number	kg	Tails — e.g. of caiman (for leather) or fox (for garment trimming, collars, boas, etc.)
Tooth	TEE	Number	kg	Teeth — e.g. of whale, lion, hippopotamus, crocodile, etc.
Timber	TIM	m3	kg	Raw timber except saw-logs and sawn wood
Trophy	TRO	Number		Trophy — all the trophy parts of one animal if they are exported together: e.g. horns (2), skull, cape, backskin, tail and feet (i.e. 10 specimens) constitute one trophy. But if, for example, the skull and horns are the only specimens of an animal that are exported, then these items together should be recorded as one trophy. Otherwise the items should be recorded separately. A whole stuffed body is recorded under ‘BOD’. A skin alone is recorded under ‘SKI’.
Tusk	TUS	Number	kg	Substantially whole tusks, whether or not worked. Includes tusks of elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, but not other teeth.
Veneer sheets rotary veneer slices veneer	VEN	m3, m2	kg	Thin layers or sheets of wood of uniform thickness, usually 6 mm or less in thickness, usually peeled (rotary veneer) or sliced (sliced veneer), for use in making plywood, for veneering furniture, veneer containers, etc.
Wax	WAX	kg		Wax, includes ambergris
Whole	WHO	kg	Number	Entire animal or plant (dead or alive)