Article 1
The introduction into the Union of specimens of the species of wild fauna and flora set out in the Annex from the countries of origin indicated therein, is prohibited.
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/6 of 6 January 2025 prohibiting the introduction into the Union of specimens of certain species of wild fauna and flora in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein and repealing Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2770
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/6 of 6 January 2025 prohibiting the introduction into the Union of specimens of certain species of wild fauna and flora in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein and repealing Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2770
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Article 2
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2770 is repealed. References to the repealed Implementing Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
Supplementary provisions
ANNEXSupplementary provisions
ANNEX (1) Specimens of species included in Annex A to Regulation (EC) No 338/97 of which the introduction into the Union is prohibited Species Source(s) covered Specimen(s) covered Countries of origin Basis in Article 4(6), Point: FAUNA CHORDATA MAMMALIA ARTIODACTYLA Bovidae Capra falconeri Wild Hunting trophies Uzbekistan (a) CARNIVORA Canidae Canis lupus Wild Hunting trophies Belarus, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Türkiye (a) Ursidae Ursus arctos Wild Hunting trophies Kazakhstan (a) Ursus thibetanus Wild Hunting trophies Russia (a) PROBOSCIDEA Elephantidae Loxodonta africana Wild Hunting trophies Cameroon (a) (2) Specimens of species included in Annex B to Regulation (EC) No 338/97 of which the introduction into the Union is prohibited Species Source(s) covered Specimen(s) covered Countries of origin Basis in Article 4(6), Point: FAUNA CHORDATA MAMMALIA ARTIODACTYLA Bovidae Ovis bochariensis Wild All Uzbekistan (b) Cervidae Cervus elaphus bactrianus Wild All Uzbekistan (b) Moschidae Moschus moschiferus Wild All Russia (b) CARNIVORA Eupleridae Cryptoprocta ferox Wild All Madagascar (b) Felidae Panthera leo Wild All Ethiopia (b) Odobenidae Odobenus rosmarus Wild All Greenland (b) PRIMATES Cercopithecidae Cercopithecus dryas Wild All Democratic Republic of the Congo (b) Piliocolobus badius (synonym Colobus badius ) Wild All Guinea (b) Piliocolobus temminckii Wild All Guinea (b) Pitheciidae Chiropotes chiropotes Wild All Guyana (b) AVES CICONIIFORMES Balaenicipitidae Balaeniceps rex Wild All Tanzania (b) FALCONIFORMES Accipitridae Accipiter erythropus Wild All Guinea (b) Accipiter melanoleucus Wild All Guinea (b) Accipiter ovampensis Wild All Guinea (b) Aquila rapax Wild All Guinea (b) Aviceda cuculoides Wild All Guinea (b) Gyps africanus Wild All Guinea (b) Gyps bengalensis Wild All Afghanistan, India (b) Gyps indicus Wild All Afghanistan, India (b) Gyps rueppellii Wild All Guinea (b) Gyps tenuirostris Wild All India (b) Hieraaetus ayresii Wild All Cameroon, Guinea, Togo (b) Hieraaetus spilogaster Wild All Guinea, Togo (b) Lophaetus occipitalis Wild All Guinea (b) Macheiramphus alcinus Wild All Guinea (b) Polemaetus bellicosus Wild All Cameroon, Guinea, Tanzania, Togo (b) Spizaetus africanus Wild All Guinea (b) Stephanoaetus coronatus Wild All Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Tanzania, Togo (b) Terathopius ecaudatus Wild All Tanzania (b) Torgos tracheliotus Wild All Cameroon, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania (b) Trigonoceps occipitalis Wild All Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea (b) Urotriorchis macrourus Wild All Guinea (b) Falconidae Falco chicquera Wild All Guinea, Togo (b) Sagittariidae Sagittarius serpentarius Wild All Cameroon, Guinea, Tanzania, Togo (b) GRUIFORMES Gruidae Balearica regulorum Wild All Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe (b) Bugeranus carunculatus Wild All Tanzania (b) PSITTACIFORMES Psittacidae Agapornis pullarius Wild All Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Togo (b) Coracopsis vasa Wild All Madagascar (b) Deroptyus accipitrinus Wild All Suriname (b) Poicephalus fuscicollis Wild All Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Togo (b) Poicephalus gulielmi Wild All Cameroon, Congo, Guinea (b) Pyrrhura caeruleiceps Wild All Colombia (b) Pyrrhura pfrimeri Wild All Brazil (b) Pyrrhura subandina Wild All Colombia (b) STRIGIFORMES Strigidae Asio capensis Wild All Guinea (b) Bubo lacteus Wild All Guinea (b) Bubo poensis Wild All Guinea (b) Glaucidium capense Wild All Rwanda (b) Glaucidium perlatum Wild All Cameroon, Guinea (b) Ptilopsis leucotis Wild All Guinea (b) Scotopelia bouvieri Wild All Cameroon (b) Scotopelia peli Wild All Guinea (b) REPTILIA SAURIA Agamidae Uromastyx dispar Wild All Mali, Sudan (b) Uromastyx geyri Wild All Mali, Niger (b) Chamaeleonidae Chamaeleo africanus Wild All Niger (b) Chamaeleo gracilis Wild All Benin, Ghana (b) Ranched All Benin (b) Chamaeleo senegalensis Wild All Benin, Ghana, Togo (b) Ranched Snout to vent length greater than 6 cm Benin, Togo (b) Furcifer labordi Wild All Madagascar (b) Trioceros deremensis Wild All Tanzania (b) Trioceros fuelleborni Wild All Tanzania (b) Trioceros perreti Wild All Cameroon (b) Trioceros serratus Wild All Cameroon (b) Trioceros werneri Wild All Tanzania (b) Trioceros wiedersheimi Wild All Cameroon (b) Cordylidae Cordylus rhodesianus Wild All Mozambique (b) Cordylus tropidosternum Wild All Mozambique (b) Cordylus vittifer Wild All Mozambique (b) Smaug mossambicus Wild All Mozambique (b) Gekkonidae Phelsuma borai Wild All Madagascar (b) Phelsuma gouldi Wild All Madagascar (b) Phelsuma hoeschi Wild All Madagascar (b) Phelsuma ravenala Wild All Madagascar (b) Scincidae Corucia zebrata Wild All Solomon Islands (b) Varanidae Varanus albigularis Wild All Tanzania (b) Varanus beccarii Wild All Indonesia (b) Varanus exanthematicus Wild All Benin (b) Ranched Greater than 20 cm snout-vent length Benin (b) Varanus niloticus Wild All Benin, Togo (b) Ranched Greater than 25 cm snout-vent length Benin (b) Ranched All Togo (b) Varanus spinulosus Wild All Solomon Islands (b) SERPENTES Boidae Candoia carinata Wild All Indonesia (b) Pythonidae Liasis fuscus Wild All Indonesia (b) Morelia boeleni Wild All Indonesia (b) Python bivittatus Wild All China (b) Python molurus Wild All China (b) Python regius Wild All Benin, Guinea (b) TESTUDINES Emydidae Chrysemys picta All Live All (d) Geoemydidae Cuora amboinensis Wild All Indonesia, Malaysia (b) Heosemys spinosa Wild All Indonesia (b) Leucocephalon yuwonoi Wild All Indonesia (b) Malayemys subtrijuga Wild All Indonesia (b) Notochelys platynota Wild All Indonesia (b) Siebenrockiella crassicollis Wild All Indonesia (b) Podocnemididae Erymnochelys madagascariensis Wild All Madagascar (b) Peltocephalus dumerilianus Wild All Guyana (b) Podocnemis unifilis Wild All Suriname (b) Testudinidae Centrochelys sulcata Ranched All Benin, Togo (b) Indotestudo forstenii Wild All Indonesia (b) Kinixys erosa Wild All Democratic Republic of the Congo, Togo (b) Kinixys homeana Wild All Benin, Ghana, Togo (b) Ranched All Benin (b) Ranched Greater than 8 cm straight carapace length Togo (b) Kinixys nogueyi Wild All Benin, Ghana (b) Ranched Greater than 5 cm straight carapace length Benin (b) Kinixys spekii Wild All Mozambique (b) Kinixys zombensis Wild All Mozambique (b) Manouria emys Wild All Indonesia (b) Manouria impressa Wild All Viet Nam (b) Stigmochelys pardalis Wild All Uganda (b) Testudo horsfieldii Wild All Kazakhstan (b) Trionychidae Amyda cartilaginea Wild All Indonesia (b) Pelochelys cantorii Wild All Indonesia (b) AMPHIBIA ANURA Conrauidae Conraua goliath Wild All Cameroon (b) Dendrobatidae Hyloxalus azureiventris Wild All Peru (b) Mantellidae Mantella aurantiaca Wild All Madagascar (b) Mantella pulchra Wild All Madagascar (b) ACTINOPTERI ANGUILLIFORMES Anguillidae Anguilla anguilla Wild All All (b) Ranched All All (b) PERCIFORMES Labridae Cheilinus undulatus Wild All Indonesia (b) SYNGNATHIFORMES Syngnathidae Hippocampus algiricus Wild All Guinea, Senegal (b) Hippocampus barbouri Wild All Indonesia (b) Hippocampus comes Wild All Indonesia (b) Hippocampus erectus Wild All Brazil (b) Hippocampus histrix Wild All Indonesia (b) Hippocampus kelloggi Wild All Indonesia (b) Hippocampus kuda Wild All China, Indonesia (b) Hippocampus spinosissimus Wild All Indonesia (b) ARTHROPODA ARACHNIDA SCORPIONES Scorpionidae Pandinus imperator Wild All Benin, Ghana, Togo (b) Ranched All Benin, Ghana, Togo (b) INSECTA LEPIDOPTERA Papilionidae Ornithoptera priamus Wild All Solomon Islands (b) Ranched All Solomon Islands (b) Ornithoptera victoriae Wild All Solomon Islands (b) Ranched All Solomon Islands (b) MOLLUSCA BIVALVIA VENEROIDA Tridacnidae Hippopus hippopus Wild All Tonga, Vanuatu, Viet Nam (b) Tridacna crocea Wild All Cambodia, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Viet Nam (b) Tridacna derasa Wild All Fiji, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Viet Nam (b) Tridacna gigas Wild All Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Viet Nam (b) Tridacna maxima Wild All Cambodia, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mozambique, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Viet Nam (b) Tridacna noae Wild All Fiji, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu (b) Tridacna rosewateri Wild All Mozambique (b) Tridacna squamosa Wild All Cambodia, Fiji, Mozambique, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Viet Nam (b) Tridacna mbalavuana Wild All Tonga (b) GASTROPODA MESOGASTROPODA Strombidae Strombus gigas Wild All Grenada, Haiti (b) CNIDARIA ANTHOZOA HELIOPORACEA Helioporidae Heliopora coerulea Wild All Solomon Islands (b) SCLERACTINIA Scleractinia spp. Wild All Ghana (b) Agariciidae Agaricia agaricites Wild All Haiti (b) Caryophylliidae Catalaphyllia jardinei Wild All Solomon Islands (b) Euphyllia divisa Wild Live corals except maricultured specimens attached to artificial substrates Indonesia (b) Euphyllia fimbriata Wild Live corals except maricultured specimens attached to artificial substrates Indonesia (b) Euphyllia paraancora Wild Live corals except maricultured specimens attached to artificial substrates Indonesia (b) Euphyllia paradivisa Wild Live corals except maricultured specimens attached to artificial substrates Indonesia (b) Euphyllia yaeyamaensis Wild Live corals except maricultured specimens attached to artificial substrates Indonesia (b) Plerogyra discus Wild All except maricultured specimens attached to artificial substrates Indonesia (b) Plerogyra simplex (Plerogyra taisnei) Wild All except maricultured specimens attached to artificial substrates Indonesia (b) Mussidae Blastomussa merleti Wild All except maricultured specimens attached to artificial substrates Indonesia (b) Cynarina lacrymalis Wild All except maricultured specimens attached to artificial substrates Indonesia (b) Scolymia spp. Wild All Tonga (b) Pocilloporidae Seriatopora stellata Wild All Indonesia (b) Trachyphylliidae Trachyphyllia geoffroyi Wild All Fiji (b) FLORA Euphorbiaceae Euphorbia ankarensis Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia banae Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia berorohae Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia bongolavensis Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia bulbispina Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia duranii Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia fianarantsoae Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia iharanae Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia kondoi Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia labatii Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia lophogona Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia millotii Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia neohumbertii Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia pachypodioides Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia razafindratsirae Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia suzannae-marnierae Wild All Madagascar (b) Euphorbia waringiae Wild All Madagascar (b) Leguminosae Pericopsis elata Wild All Côte d’Ivoire (b) Orchidaceae Cypripedium japonicum Wild All China, Republic of Korea (b) Cypripedium macranthos Wild All Republic of Korea (b) Cypripedium micranthum Wild All China (b) Cypripedium ventricosum Wild All Republic of Korea (b) Dendrobium bellatulum Wild All Viet Nam (b) Dendrobium nobile Wild All Laos (b) Dendrobium wardianum Wild All Viet Nam (b) Myrmecophila tibicinis Wild All Belize (b) Phalaenopsis parishii Wild All Viet Nam (b) Rosaceae Prunus africana Wild All Equatorial Guinea (b)
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