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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eighth Eye Blind" data-source="post: 242177" data-attributes="member: 49683">The CITES appendices and the EU annexes aren't identical. CITES only sets the minimum protections that signatories have to employ. Signatories are always able to increase protections beyond what CITES calls for.A good example is the US listing five species of Poecilotheria as endangered which gives them effectively the same protection as CITES Appendix I even though they're actually listed in CITES Appendix II. The EU annexes work the same way so a species that's on CITES Appendix II and wouldn't normally need a permit for intra-EU transfer could still be banned from commerce inside the EU if it's on EU Annex A.All Brachypelma species were added to CITES Appendix II back in the 1990's but they didn't get red listed by IUCN and bumped up in protection status until 2019. Ergo, Brachypelma you bought in the past may not have needed permits for EU-to-EU sales but may require them today.Yeah, it's a complicated mess, but that's part of the point. The harder it is to get the permits the more incentive there is to captive-breed locally and reduce the strain on wild populations.</blockquote>