The Saeima¹ has adopted
and the President has proclaimed the following Law:

On Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, 1973

Section 1. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (hereinafter - Convention) and its Appendices I, II and III, signed at Washington, D.C., on 3 March 1973, is accepted and ratified by this Law.

Section 2. The Law shall come into force from the date of its proclamation. The Convention and its Appendices shall be proclaimed in English with their translation into Latvian concurrently with the Law.

Section 3. The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development shall perform the functions of a coordinator and the Management Authority referred to in Article IX of the Convention for the purposes of implementation of this Convention.

Section 4. The Convention and its Appendices shall come into force within the time period and in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article XXII thereof, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall notify thereof in the newspaper Latvijas Vēstnesis [the official Gazette of the Government of the Republic of Latvia].

The Law has been adopted by the Saeima on 17 December 1996.

President G. Ulmanis

Rīga, 3 January 1997

¹ The Parliament of the Republic of Latvia

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