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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8613

24 December 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/animal welfare
EP requests ban on import, export and production of furs and cat and dog skins

Strasbourg, 23/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - During its plenary session in Strasbourg on 18 December, the European Parliament passed a declaration signed by a large number of MEPs on "concrete evidence" that more than two million cats and dogs are killed each year in Asia "solely in order to remove their fur and skin, and that the majority of these products end up in EU Member States" (notably France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark and Austria). The Parliament noted that...

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