Guidelines and Codes of conduct
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Guideline/Code |
IUCN Guidelines for the prevention of Biodiversity Loss Caused by Alien Invasive Species, 2000 |
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Special section(s) relevant to alien species |
The guidelines relate directly to the article 8h of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD). |
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The guidelines are intended to assist governments and management agencies in their implementation of article 8h of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The overall aim is to reduce the negative effects of alien invasive species. The guidelines were prepared by the SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. |
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United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) guidelines to minimize risk of invasive species, 2014 |
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Special section(s) relevant to alien species |
The guidelines deals with the introduction of alien species as pets. |
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The guidelines are intended to assist governments and management agencies on devising and implementing measures to address the risk associated with the introduction of alien species as pets and as live bait and live food. |
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Special section(s) relevant to alien species |
The guidelines deal with ballast water and ballast sediments. The Guidelines have been instrumental in defining the contents of the new International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’s Ballast water and Sediments. |
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Content and coverage of guideline/code |
The objectives of these Guidelines, developed under technical and scientific guidance, are to assist Governments and appropriate authorities, ship masters, operators and owners, and port authorities, as well as other interested parties, in minimizing the risk of introducing harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens from ships' ballast water and associated sedi- ments while protecting ships' safety. |
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IUCN/SSC Guidelines for Reintroductions and Other Conservation Translocations, 2013 |
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Special section(s) relevant to alien species |
The guidelines are intended to act as a guide for procedures useful to re-introduction programmes. They deal with the intentional introduction of captive-bred individuals and the measures taken to prevent unintentional introduction of alien pathogens. |
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These guidelines are based on the IUCN Position Statement on the Translocation of Living Organisms in 1987, prepared by the SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group. |
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Guideline/ strategy |
The Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy, 1995 |
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Special section(s) relevant to alien species |
The Strategy is a proactive approach to stop and reverse the degradation of biological and landscape diversity values in Europe. The Strategy reinforces the implementation of existing measures and identifies additional actions that need to be taken over the next two decades. The strategy utilizes the "Principle of Avoidance" on IAS: Introduction into the natural environment of exotic species should require environmental impact assessment if likely to have significant adverse effects on biological and landscape diversity. The subject of alien invasive species was specifically adressed at the econd Intergovernmental Conference in Budapest, 2002. Also at the third intergovernmental Conference in Madrid, 2003 IAS were discussed and an action plan proposed. In Kiev, 2003 Ministers and senior officials from 55 countries endorsed the goal of halting the degradation of Europe's biological and landscape diversity by the year 2010. One of the Europe-wide targets for stabilizing biodiversity by 2010 was implementing an agreed strategy on alien invasive species in at least half of the region's countries by 2008. |
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The Strategy provides a framework to promote a consistent approach and common objectives for national and regional action to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity. |
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Special section(s) relevant to alien species |
Article 9,2,3: "States should consult with their neighboring States, as appropriate, before introducing non-indigenous species into transboundary aquatic ecosystems." Article 9,3,1: "States should conserve genetic diversity and maintain integrity of aquatic communities and ecosystems by appropriate management. In particular, efforts should be undertaken to minimize the harmful effects of introducing non-native species or genetically altered stocks used for aquaculture including culture-based fisheries into waters, especially where there is a significant potential for the spread of such non-native species or genetically altered stocks into waters under the jurisdiction of other States as well as waters under the jurisdiction of the State of origin. States should, whenever possible, promote steps to minimize adverse genetic, disease and other effects of escaped farmed fish on wild stocks." |
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This Code sets out "principles and international standards of behaviour for responsible practices with a view to ensuring the effective conservation, management and development of living aquatic resources, with due respect for the ecosystem and biodiversity." The code thus covers unintentional and intentional introductions related to fisheries, including aquaculture. The Code is voluntary. |
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Guideline/Code |
ICES code of practice on the Introduction and transfer of Marine Organisms, 2005 |
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The ICES Code of Practice recommends procedures and practices to reduce the risks of the intentional introduction and transfer of marine (including brackish water) organisms. |
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The International Council for the exploration of The Sea (ICES) is an organisation that coordinates and promotes marine research in the North Atlantic. This includes adjacent seas such as the Baltic Sea and North Sea. They also work in the Arctic, the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, and the North Pacific Ocean through strategic partnerships. |
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ICAO resolution on preventing the introduction of invasive alien species, 1998 |
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The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) assembly in resolution No. A38-18: Preventing the introduction of invasive alien species "Urges all Contracting States to support one another's efforts to reduce the risk of introducing, through civil air transportation, potentially invasive alien species to areas outside their natural range; Requests the ICAO Council to continue to work with the appropriate concerned organizations to identify approaches that ICAO might take in assisting to reduce the risk of introducing potentially invasive alien species to areas outside their natural range;" |
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Agenda 21 (UNCED, 1992) |
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Special section(s) relevant to alien species |
Chapter 11,13g. Combatting Deforestation by: "Increasing the protection of forests from pollutants, fire, pests and diseases and other human-made interferences such as forest poaching, mining and unmitigated shifting cultivation, the uncontrolled introduction of exotic plant and animal species, as well as developing and accelerating research for a better understanding of problems relating to the management and regeneration of all types of forests; strengthening and/or establishing appropriate measures to assess and/or check inter-border movement of plants and related materials; " Chapter 15 Biodiversity and conservation acknowledges that: "Despite mounting efforts over the past 20 years, the loss of the world's biological diversity, mainly from habitat destruction, over-harvesting, pollution and the inappropriate introduction of foreign plants and animals, has continued."
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Content and coverage of guideline/code |
The conservation of biological diversity is the subject of Chapter 15 of Agenda 21, but biodiversity issues are dealt with in many other chapters as well. Several chapters refer to aliens species as one of the problems for biodiversity conservation |