The Management Authority must indicate on the CITES document the source of the specimen using one of the following codes, except the code ``O'' for pre-Convention, which may be used in conjunction with another code: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
(a) Artificially propagated plant (see Sec. 23.40): A(1) An Appendix-II or -III artificially propagated
specimen.(2) An Appendix-I plant specimen artificially propagated
for noncommercial purposes or certain Appendix-I hybrids
(see Sec. 23.42) propagated for commercial purposes.------------------------------------------------------------------------(b) Bred-in-captivity wildlife (see Sec. 23.41): C(1) An Appendix-II or -III specimen bred in captivity.
(See paragraph (d)(1) of this section for wildlife that
does not qualify as bred in captivity.)(2) An Appendix-I specimen bred for noncommercial
purposes. (See paragraph (c)(1) of this section for an
Appendix-I specimen bred for commercial purposes.)------------------------------------------------------------------------(c) Bred in captivity or artificially propagated for D
commercial purposes (see Sec. Sec. 23.46 and 23.47):(1) An Appendix-I wildlife specimen bred in captivity for
commercial purposes at an operation registered with the
Secretariat.(2) An Appendix-I plant specimen artificially propagated
for commercial purposes at a nursery that is registered
with the Secretariat or a commercial propagating
operation that meets the requirements of Sec. 23.47.------------------------------------------------------------------------(d) Captive-bred wildlife (Sec. 23.36):(1) An Appendix-II or -III wildlife species that is
captive-bred.(2) An Appendix-I wildlife species that is one of the
following:(i) Captive-bred (see Sec. 23.5).(ii) Bred for commercial purposes, but the commercial
breeding operation is not registered with the
Secretariat.------------------------------------------------------------------------(e) Confiscated or seized specimen (see Sec. 23.78). I------------------------------------------------------------------------(f) Pre-Convention specimen (see Sec. 23.45) (code may O
be used in conjunction with another code).------------------------------------------------------------------------(g) Ranched wildlife (see Sec. 23.5). R------------------------------------------------------------------------(h) Source unknown (must be justified on the face of the U
(i) Specimen taken from the wild: W(1) For wildlife, this includes a specimen born in
captivity from an egg collected from the wild or from
wildlife that mated or exchanged genetic material in the
wild.(2) For a plant, it includes a specimen propagated from a
propagule collected from a wild plant, except as provided
in Sec. 23.64.------------------------------------------------------------------------ [72 FR 48448, Aug. 23, 2007, as amended at 79 FR 30423, May 27, 2014]