EXPORT PERMIT APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

As part of your export permit application, you must submit the following documents:

1. Export Permit Application form in Spanish.
2. Collecting report in Spanish.
3. Material Transfer Agreement. Complete requested information, sign and scan it.
   
4. Copy of passport (non-Panamanian citizens) or "cédula" (Panamanian citizens) and CV in Spanish.
5. Download, sign, scan and send the letter of commitment along with all the other documents requested. Without this letter of commitment ANAM will not process your application. The letter with original signature will also be required.   You will have to send this letter via Courier to STRI. 
6. Once you collect, you are required to deposit a set of voucher specimens to the appropriate/corresponding Museum:
   1. Flora: “Herbario de la Universidad de Panamá”.  Fill the "carta remisoria", signed by the Herbarium. Please contact Lucila Guillen, email: lucilapma@gmail.com,  tel.: 523-6590.
   2. Fauna:
• Invertebrates: “Museo de Invertebrados de la Universidad de Panamá (MIUP)”.  You must obtain a proof of deposit letter "carta remisoria" signed by the MIUP.  For this purpose, please read the Specimen preparation donation guidelines and fill the insect deposit form.
• Vertebrates: “Museo de Vertebrados de la Universidad de Panamá”.  Fill "carta remisoria", signed by the Vertebrates Museum. Please contact Dr. Víctor Tejera, e-mail: museover@ancon.up.ac.pa , tel.: 523-6217 or Ricardo Pérez, email: rijperez@yahoo.com

Please send all the above documents to Office of Permits: STRI-ANAMpermits@si.edu