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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9854

5 March 2009
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment council
Member states call on Commission to negotiate extension of moratorium on commercial whaling

Brussels, 04/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - The Environment Council of 2 March established the position that the European Commission, acting on behalf of the European Community, will have to defend at meetings of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) between 2009 and 2011.

To improve protection of cetaceans, the European Commission has been given a mandate to negotiate the retention of the current moratorium on commercial whaling, the extension of this moratorium to other species still not...

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