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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9854
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/environment

Call for general ban on trade in seal products in EU, with exception for Inuits

Brussels, 04/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - In Brussels on Monday 2 March, the internal market and consumer protection committee of the European Parliament came out in favour of a virtually total ban on the trade in seal products in the EU, whether skin, fur, meat, blubber, going against the opinion of rapporteur Diana Wallis (ALDE, UK). As an alternative to a general ban, Wallis suggested labelling, guaranteeing consumers that the products being bought came from seals which had been killed as...

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