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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10454

17 September 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/general court
Confirmation of EU embargo on seal products

Brussels, 16/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - In a ruling issued on 6 September 2011 in case T-18/10, the EU General Court said that a request for the cancellation of the 2009 European embargo on seal products (Ruling 1007/2009 - see EUROPE 9949) could not be heard. Fearing that the embargo would destroy the local indigenous people's seal-hunting, seventeen organisations, including Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), Canada's biggest Inuit group, lodged an appeal in January 2010 against the EU ruling,...

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