13-17 September: Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP) Workshop on CITES implementation, Lisbon, Portugal

19-20 September: Regional Seminar for Customs Officers on Combating Environmental Crime, Beijing, China

21–22 September: The 4th Multilateral Environment Agreements Regional Enforcement Network Workshop, Beijing, China

29 September-1 October: 2nd African Workshop of the ITTO-CITES timber species project, Limbe, Cameroon

14 October: Entry into force of the new Appendix III (see Notification to the Parties No. 2010/018)

1-3 November: African Elephant Range States Meeting, Nairobi, Kenya

31 December: Deadline set in Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP14) for States that have a population of African elephants and wish to authorize export of raw ivory to communicate in writing to the Secretariat export quotas for raw ivory for 2011

31 January: Deadline set in Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP14) for Parties that hold a stock of raw ivory within their territory to inform the Secretariat of the level of that stock, indicating the source of the ivory

17 February: Deadline for the submission of documents for the 19th meeting of the CITES Plants Committee

18-21 April: 19th meeting of the CITES Plants Committee, Geneva, Switzerland

19 May : Deadline for the submission of documents for consideration at the 25th meeting of the CITES Animals Committee

16 June: Deadline for the submission of documents for consideration at the 61st meeting of the CITES Standing Committee

18-22 July: 25th meeting of the CITES Animals Committee, Geneva, Switzerland

15-19 August: 61st meeting of the CITES Standing Committee, Geneva, Switzerland