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Kingdom :  ANIMALIA
Phylum :  CHORDATA
Class :  MAMMALIA
Order :  CETACEA
Family :  DELPHINIDAE
Genus :  Tursiops
Taxon : Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) Comment on this entry
Legislation Details
Legal Notice CITES Appendix Country Date listed Notes
CITES  II    13/02/03  A zero export quota has been established for live specimens from the Black Sea population removed from the wild and traded for primarily commercial purposes.

 

CITES  II/r  Iceland (IS)  02/04/00 

 

CITES  II    28/06/79 

 

Legal Notice EU Annex Country Date listed Notes
EC Reg. No 407/2009 (amending EC Reg. No. 338/97)  A    22/05/09  Specimens, including products and derivatives other than meat products for commercial purposes, taken by the people of Greenland under licence granted by the competent authority concerned shall be treated as belonging to Annex B

 

EC Reg. No 318/2008 (amending EC Reg. No. 338/97)  A    11/04/08  Specimens, including products and derivatives other than meat products for commercial purposes, taken by the people of Greenland under licence granted by the competent authority concerned shall be treated as belonging to Annex B

 

EU Habitats Directive (2006/105)  IV    01/01/07 

 

EU Habitats Directive (2006/105)  II    01/01/07 

 

EC Reg. No 1332/2005 (amending EC Reg. No. 338/97)  A    22/08/05  Specimens, including products and derivatives other than meat products for commercial purposes, taken by the people of Greenland under licence granted by the competent authority concerned shall be treated as belonging to Annex B

 

EC Reg. No 1497/2003 (amending EC Reg. No. 338/97)  A    30/08/03  Specimens, including products and derivatives other than meat products for commercial purposes, taken by the people of Greenland under licence granted by the competent authority concerned shall be treated as belonging to Annex B

 

EC Reg. No 2724/2000 (amending EC Reg. No. 338/97)  A    18/12/00  Specimens, including products and derivatives other than meat products for commercial purposes, taken by the people of Greenland under licence granted by the competent authority concerned shall be treated as belonging to Annex B

 

EU Habitats Directive (97/62)  IV    28/11/97 

 

EU Habitats Directive (97/62)  II    28/11/97 

 

EC Reg. No 338/97  A    01/06/97 

 

EU Habitats Directive (92/43)  IV    21/05/92 

 

EU Habitats Directive (92/43)  II    21/05/92 

 

Legal Notice Other Annex Country Date listed Notes
CMS  II    05/03/09  Mediterranean population included

 

CMS  I    05/03/09  Black Sea population (listed under the subspecies T. truncatus ponticus)

 

Bern Convention  II    01/03/02 

 

CMS - ACCOBAMS  I    01/06/01 

 

SPAW Protocol  II    18/06/00 

 

UNCLOS  I    16/11/94 

 

CMS - ASCOBANS  .    29/03/94  ASCOBANS covers all species, subspecies or populations of toothed whales in the agreement area except for the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).
As of 3 February 2008 the ASCOBANS Area has been extended as follows:
"The marine environment of the Baltic and North Seas and contiguous area of the North East Atlantic, as delimited by the shores of the Gulfs of Bothnia and Finland; to the south-east by latitude 36°N, where this line of latitude meets the line joining the lighthouses of Cape St. Vincent (Portugal) and Casablanca (Morocco); to the south-west by latitude 36°N and longitude 15°W; to the north-west by longitude 15° and a line drawn through the following points: latitude 59°N/longitude 15°W, latitude 60°N/longitude 05°W, latitude, 61°N/longitude 4W;latitude 62N/ longitude 3W; to the north by latitude 62°N; and including the Kattegat and the Sound and Belt passages."

 

CMS  II    01/01/94  North Sea and Baltic Sea, western Mediterranean, and Black Sea popns

 

National  
Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981  5  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GB)  28/09/82 

 

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