Brussels, 29/10/2010 (Agence Europe) - In a ruling issued on 25 October and published on 28 October 2010, the European General Court rejected the appeal by several seal hunting associations, seal products industrial organisations and bodies representing the Inuits in Canada, which had called for cancellation of EU Regulation 1007/2009 on the trade in seal products.
The regulation came into force in September 2009, setting out harmonised rules for the sale of seal products in the EU and...