Brussels, 26/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 25 April 2013, the European Union General Court upheld the EU ban on the trade in seal products in Europe to the dismay of seal hunters in Canada, Greenland and Norway (case T-526/10).
The EU General Court rejected an appeal lodged by the main Inuit organisation of Canada, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), which wanted annulment of application of the EU seal ban regulation, arguing that the principal objective of the basic regulation is the...