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CITES plants and hybrids: AOS judging & showing
Nancy, not a file or a saw! Al only uses wenches!
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Stop the presses.
I brought this up at our center's meeting yesterday, and the judges were split. Half thought a receipt stating 'from Antec' was good enough. Half thought genuine paperwork from Antec was needed in order to show for AOS. Our cebter chair is forwarding the issue to Aileen Gerritsen, who has probably been bombarded with emails on the issue already. This is being forwarded to Aileen Gerritsen. K Barrett "Al" wrote in message ... To all you AOS judges and show chairpeople: You see a Paph Ho Chi Minh in your show or one is sit in front of you at a regional monthly judging: Do you require anything to prove the plant/hybrid is legally imported or comes from legally imported stock? Is a receipt from a vendor sufficient? I have checked with a friend of mine who works at CITES and he informs me that when I sell something like a Paph vietnamensis that I only need to provide a receipt to the customer that shows they bought it from me. He added that I should keep my paperwork in case they ever have questions about where I got it. Do you all require something more if such a plant turns up in a show or judging? Forever curious, Al |
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CITES plants and hybrids: AOS judging & showing
*G*!
K "danny" wrote in message .. . You may want to correct her name to Garrison in the email :-) -danny, who sees her every month at the Atlanta judging "K Barrett" wrote in message . .. Stop the presses. I brought this up at our center's meeting yesterday, and the judges were split. Half thought a receipt stating 'from Antec' was good enough. Half thought genuine paperwork from Antec was needed in order to show for AOS. Our cebter chair is forwarding the issue to Aileen Gerritsen, who has probably been bombarded with emails on the issue already. This is being forwarded to Aileen Gerritsen. K Barrett |
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You may want to correct her name to Garrison in the email :-)
-danny, who sees her every month at the Atlanta judging "K Barrett" wrote in message . .. Stop the presses. I brought this up at our center's meeting yesterday, and the judges were split. Half thought a receipt stating 'from Antec' was good enough. Half thought genuine paperwork from Antec was needed in order to show for AOS. Our cebter chair is forwarding the issue to Aileen Gerritsen, who has probably been bombarded with emails on the issue already. This is being forwarded to Aileen Gerritsen. K Barrett |
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CITES plants and hybrids: AOS judging & showing
Interesting. I was afraid of this. The policy should be clear to all, and
applied consistently, whatever it is, no matter who puts a plant in front of you, whether it Norito Hassegawa or some unknown who just walks in with a plant and says, "I bought this at Home Depot, I think it's pretty.". That is *if* you HAVE TO have a policy of policing the plant population in this country. On a personal note, since it seems the AOS seems to be heading in that direction, I would just like to express my opinion that the AOS judges should have a list, provided by a liaison with a CITES representative, of species from CITES that can not legally here because no CITES number has ever been granted and a list of plants that have a CITES number with a date that entry permit was granted. These list should have expiration dates and be updated and passed to local societies and judges regularly. The police should be simple: Perhaps a blanket refusal to judge anything on the first list and a policy to judge plants on the second list with the provision that the exhibitor be willing to state where they acquired the plant and that they believe the plant being offered for judging "conforms to known parameters for legal acquisition". This way the judges and the AOS do not have to worry about tracking paperwork and asking for and debating all the types of receipts and paperwork and paper trails you might see. You guys collect and record data on plants/exhibitors and you do that plant quality judging thing. This data becomes part of a public record and the exhibitor is the one who takes the chance of getting into trouble with CITES. If you grant an award to a plant on the second list and later CITES enforcement officials succeed in a prosecution, you have to decide if such an award would stand. It's a simple policy , since CITES itself does not track plants already in the county and did not track where Antec's plants went or who then resold or gave them away. The AOS would probably be breaking it's own "conform to known parameters for legal acquisition" guideline by turning away a plant because a receipt was not "proof". I also think you guys do open yourself up to legal questions of harming an exhibitor's or vendor's name by debating what may or may not be legally acquired in front of onlookers. Again, just my opinion. K Barrett" wrote in message . .. Stop the presses. I brought this up at our center's meeting yesterday, and the judges were split. Half thought a receipt stating 'from Antec' was good enough. Half thought genuine paperwork from Antec was needed in order to show for AOS. Our cebter chair is forwarding the issue to Aileen Gerritsen, who has probably been bombarded with emails on the issue already. This is being forwarded to Aileen Gerritsen. K Barrett "Al" wrote in message ... To all you AOS judges and show chairpeople: You see a Paph Ho Chi Minh in your show or one is sit in front of you at a regional monthly judging: Do you require anything to prove the plant/hybrid is legally imported or comes from legally imported stock? Is a receipt from a vendor sufficient? I have checked with a friend of mine who works at CITES and he informs me that when I sell something like a Paph vietnamensis that I only need to provide a receipt to the customer that shows they bought it from me. He added that I should keep my paperwork in case they ever have questions about where I got it. Do you all require something more if such a plant turns up in a show or judging? Forever curious, Al |
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CITES plants and hybrids: AOS judging & showing
I agree with everything you said, especially this:
I also think you guys do open yourself up to legal questions of harming an exhibitor's or vendor's name by debating what may or may not be legally acquired in front of onlookers. Again, just my opinion. My own opinion is that this needs to be addressed at the next trustees meeting because 1) its going to drive the judges crazy very soon, as the Antec plants start to flower and 2) the next edition of the Handbook is due to be published very soon, so any policy should be in it. (IMHO) Of course I have no power, am just an underling and probably have a less than stellar rep with the AOS after I gave my opinion on the dangers inherent in going digital with photography (in re the temptation to photoshop)(I was told I was being hysterical... No biggie, I've been called worse. Doesn't affect me at all, no, really! Not at all, [sniff] *G*) So, thanks Al. I'm happy you brought this whole topic up. Maybe the other lurkers will bring it to the attention of the chain of command in their regions and maybe a policy can be elucidated K Barrett "al" wrote in message news:ibYLg.7093$xh4.3743@trnddc04... Interesting. I was afraid of this. The policy should be clear to all, and applied consistently, whatever it is, no matter who puts a plant in front of you, whether it Norito Hassegawa or some unknown who just walks in with a plant and says, "I bought this at Home Depot, I think it's pretty.". That is *if* you HAVE TO have a policy of policing the plant population in this country. On a personal note, since it seems the AOS seems to be heading in that direction, I would just like to express my opinion that the AOS judges should have a list, provided by a liaison with a CITES representative, of species from CITES that can not legally here because no CITES number has ever been granted and a list of plants that have a CITES number with a date that entry permit was granted. These list should have expiration dates and be updated and passed to local societies and judges regularly. The police should be simple: Perhaps a blanket refusal to judge anything on the first list and a policy to judge plants on the second list with the provision that the exhibitor be willing to state where they acquired the plant and that they believe the plant being offered for judging "conforms to known parameters for legal acquisition". This way the judges and the AOS do not have to worry about tracking paperwork and asking for and debating all the types of receipts and paperwork and paper trails you might see. You guys collect and record data on plants/exhibitors and you do that plant quality judging thing. This data becomes part of a public record and the exhibitor is the one who takes the chance of getting into trouble with CITES. If you grant an award to a plant on the second list and later CITES enforcement officials succeed in a prosecution, you have to decide if such an award would stand. It's a simple policy , since CITES itself does not track plants already in the county and did not track where Antec's plants went or who then resold or gave them away. The AOS would probably be breaking it's own "conform to known parameters for legal acquisition" guideline by turning away a plant because a receipt was not "proof". I also think you guys do open yourself up to legal questions of harming an exhibitor's or vendor's name by debating what may or may not be legally acquired in front of onlookers. Again, just my opinion. |
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