COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Listing of CITES Species
Declaration of Stricter Domestic Measure
I, David Kemp, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, pursuant to subsection 303CB(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, hereby declare that the list of CITES species established under subsection 303CA(1) of the Act has effect as if the populations of the species Loxodonta africana (African Elephant) that are included in Appendix II to CITES are included in Appendix I to CITES.
Dated this 10th day of December 2002
DAVID KEMP
Minister for the Environment and Heritage
Notes:
CITES means the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora made at Washington on 3 March 1973, as amended and in force for Australia from time to time.
This declaration takes effect upon publication in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette.