Regulations For The Management Of Marking Of Ivory And Ivory Products

The standard is a product of the human social exchange and trade developing into a certain stage,it is a kind of standardization documents rising from disorder to concensus and aiming for the best order in commonweal activities,for joint and repeated use approved by certain recognized agency.To a certain degree,norm contains the meaning of standard,a form of standard.From disorderly competition to certain level of development,an industry needs restrains to forcibly omit those repeated and nonsencial competitions,it is the founction of iudustrial standards.Therefore,any kind of orderly industrial development needs standards, industiral standards is the foundation for ensuring the sound development of the industry.Chinese ivory carving skills are of solid culture,which have gone through several millenniums inheritance and development.It has already been one part of outstanding traditional culture of our country,if made it pathless,it would have been a historical regret. Because of international trade prohibition in ivory,lacking of ivory raw materials,the domestic ivory industry is verging on " the skill and person to perish ".In order to make our ivory carving skill get passing on,we must satisfy the legal conditions for ivory importing country, taking the ivory raw materials from the legal sources as guarantee.But our present management mechanism of the ivory market can't yet fully satisfy the conditions of the ivory importer,which stipulated by CITES(Conventions on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).In order to safeguard the international image of our country, becoming legal ivory raw materials importer,according to the request of CITES,we must set up overall feasible internal legislation,and effective management system to regulate the operation related to ivory-processing and distribution,and to monitor the flow of ivory in the domestic market,etc.We has received the remarkable effect since May of 2004,when the double mark control measures to ivory and ivory products of domestic ivory market were implemented,and these measures have been agreed by the CITES expert teamsMarking ivory raw materials and ivory products is a commonly used and reused activity, aiming at the domestic ivory processing industry and the merchandising business.Adopting the clear targeted industry norms to standardize the behavior related to the marking management,it will have a positive role in promoting the process.Industry norm is a kind of standard,used to regulate some units concerned with the ivory raw materials and ivory products registration and marking,to improve and strengthen the management of the ivory market order,which is the effective measure to solve the problems of the marking management of ivory and ivory products of our country,it is pre-requisite,to obtains the legitimate ivory raw material to save our traditional culture,but also to fulfill the commitments to international community to strengthen the efforts of domestic enforcing the law and supervising against ivory smuggle, which is necessary to safeguard the country's international image.