Contents of permits, certificates and applications for the issue of such documents
Article 5
Information and references in permits and certificates, as well as in applications for the issue of such documents, shall comply with the following requirements: (1) the description of specimens must, where it is provided for, include one of the codes contained in Annex VII; (2) for the indication of units of quantity and net mass, those contained in Annex VII must be used; (3) the taxa to which the specimens belong must be indicated to species level except where the species is differentiated to subspecies level in accordance with the Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 338/97 or where the Conference of the Parties to the Convention has decided that differentiation to a higher taxonomic level is sufficient; (4) the standard references for nomenclature contained in Annex VIII to this Regulation must be used to indicate the scientific names of taxa; (5) where required, the purpose of a transaction must be indicated using one of the codes contained in point 1 of Annex IX to this Regulation; (6) the source of specimens must be indicated using one of the codes contained in point 2 of Annex IX to this Regulation. Where the use of the codes referred to in point (6) is subject to compliance with the criteria laid down in Regulation (EC) No 338/97 or in this Regulation, they must comply with those criteria.