Re: [OGD] More illegal stuff... plus... How do we submit changes?

2007-10-17 Thread lee
Paul, Thank you for your posting. As someone who does travel for orchids, I appreciate the specific references you list. One needs an education to sort through the regulations. Such would be an excellent topic for a seminar at a conference. If a traveler is hand carrying perhaps a few flasks, one n

Re: [OGD] More illegal stuff

2007-10-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sep 28, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Aaron J. Hicks wrote: > The exemption for flasked seedlings is not recognized by > the United States. Europe and other countries may recognize the > "washing" > of "illegal" (?) plants by passage through sterile culture, but not > the United States. AJ,

[OGD] More illegal stuff

2007-09-28 Thread Aaron J. Hicks
Oliver Sparrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spaketh thusly: >It may be that I have missed something. I understand orchid movements to be >limited under CITES to the movement of mature plants. Flasked seedlings are >exempt, as are botanical specimens suitable for taxonomy, cut flowers and - if >no