Editing CITES (section)

==Amendments and reservations==
Amendments to the Convention must be supported by a two-thirds majority who are "present and voting" and can be made during an extraordinary meeting of the COP if one-third of the Parties are interested in such a meeting.  The Gaborone Amendment (1983) allows regional economic blocs to accede to the treaty.  Trade with non-Party states is allowed, although permits and certificates are recommended to be issued by exporters and sought by importers.

Species in the Appendices may be proposed for addition, change of Appendix, or de-listing (i.e., deletion) by any Party, whether or not it is a range State and changes may be made despite objections by range States if there is sufficient (2/3 majority) support for the listing.  Species listings are made at the Conference of Parties.

Upon acceding to the convention or within 90 days of a species listing being amended, Parties may make reservations. In these cases, the party is treated as being a state that is not a Party to CITES with respect to trade in the species concerned.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reservations entered by the Parties |url=https://cites.org/eng/app/reserve.php |website=CITES.org |access-date=7 August 2022}}</ref> Notable reservations include those by [[Iceland]], [[Japan]], and [[Norway]] on various [[baleen]] whale species and those on [[Falconiformes]] by Saudi Arabia.