Editing CITES (section)

===Ratifications===
[[File:CITES.svg|thumb|300px|Parties to the treaty. [[Greenland]] is covered by CITES regulations through [[Denmark]].<ref name=DMK/>]]
The text of the convention was finalized at a meeting of representatives of 80 countries in [[Washington, D.C.]], United States, on 3 March 1973. It was then open for signature until 31 December 1974. It entered into force after the 10th ratification by a signatory country, on 1 July 1975. Countries that signed the Convention become Parties by ratifying, accepting or approving it. By the end of 2003, all signatory countries had become Parties. States that were not signatories may become Parties by acceding to the convention. {{as of|2022|August}}, the convention has 184 parties, including 183 states and the European Union.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cites.org/eng/disc/parties/chronolo.php|title=List of Contracting Parties – CITES}}</ref>

The CITES Convention includes provisions and rules for trade with non-Parties. All member states of the [[United Nations]] are party to the treaty, with the exception of [[North Korea]], [[Federated States of Micronesia]], [[Haiti]], [[Kiribati]], [[Marshall Islands]], [[Nauru]], [[South Sudan]], [[East Timor]], [[Turkmenistan]], and [[Tuvalu]]. UN observer the [[Holy See]] is also not a member. The [[Faroe Islands]], an autonomous region in the [[Kingdom of Denmark]], is also treated as a non-Party to CITES (both the Danish mainland and [[Greenland]] are part of CITES).<ref name=DMK>{{cite web|url = http://www.cites.org/eng/cms/index.php/component/cp/country/DK |website =CITES|title = Denmark – National authorities|date = 24 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.cites.org/eng/cms/index.php/component/cp/country/FO| title = Faroe Islands (Dependent territory of DK) – National authorities |website = CITES|date = 23 August 2021}}</ref>

An amendment to the text of the convention, known as the Gaborone Amendment<ref name = org>{{cite web|title=Gaborone amendment to the text of the Convention |url=http://www.cites.org/eng/disc/gaborone.php |publisher=CITES |work=cites.org |access-date=13 February 2012}}</ref> allows regional economic integration organizations (REIO), such as the [[European Union]], to have the status of a member state and to be a Party to the convention.  The REIO can vote at CITES meetings with the number of votes representing the number of members in the REIO, but it does not have an additional vote.

In accordance with Article XVII, paragraph 3, of the CITES Convention, the Gaborone Amendment entered into force on 29 November 2013, 60 days after 54 (two-thirds) of the 80 States that were party to CITES on 30 April 1983 deposited their instrument of acceptance of the amendment. At that time it entered into force only for those States that had accepted the amendment. The amended text of the convention will apply automatically to any State that becomes a Party after 29 November 2013. For States that became party to the convention before that date and have not accepted the amendment, it will enter into force 60 days after they accept it.<ref name = org/>