These Regulations implement changes to the Appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (ratified by the United Kingdom on 2nd August 1976) which were notified to the parties to the Convention under Notification Numbers 2024/094, 2023/018; 2023/015 and 2023/11, and which take, or took effect on 25th November 2024, 21st May 2023 and 4th May 2023 respectively.

Regulations 2 to 4 amend the Annex 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 (Regulation (EC 338/97) which is assimilated law. That Annex contains two tables, the first of which sets out Annexes A to C, the second setting out Annex D.

No impact assessment has been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.