CITES Secretariat (PDF)
Comments from the Parties and Comments and Recommendations from the Secretariat
For Corallium information, see Proposal 21 on pages 41-42.

"The Secretariat notes that the FAO Panel concluded that International trade in Corallium spp. is an important driver of the harvest of these species, and that strong local management of harvesting is lacking across the full range of these species. Whilst the species in the genus Corallium have not suffered marked population declines large enough to meet the Appendix II listing criteria throughout their range, given the demand for specimens of the species and the history of over harvesting in one area after another, it does not seem unreasonable to conclude that for these populations, in accordance with the paragraph B in Annex 2a to Resolution Conf. 9.24 (Rev. CoP13), regulation of trade in the species is required to ensure that the harvest of specimens from the wild is not reducing the wild population to a level at which its survival might be threatened by continued harvesting or other influences, or that over harvesting for international trade may affect the role of these species in the ecosystems where they occur. In order to facilitate a more targeted application of the Convention, the Secretariat suggest that the listing could be accompanied by a quantitative limit for personal or household effects, which might be incorporated into Resolution Conf. 13.7. On the basis of the information available prior to the discussion at CoP14, the Secretariat recommends that the proposal be adopted."