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Reference Guide - EC Wildlife Trade Regulations

The text of the regulations is necessarily written in legalistic language. In order to facilitate better understanding of the provisions of the legislation, a simply written, but nonetheless detailed Reference Guide is available. The current version of the Reference Guide (pdf 887KB) covers Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 865/2006, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 100/2008.

short reference guideA user-friendly short reference guide is also available:

български cs es da de et el en fr it lv lt hu mt nl pl pt română sk sl fi sv (pdf ~700KB)