Press Release: Environment: Commission proposes trade ban in products from seals to improve animal welfare

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Series Details IP/08/1197 (23.07.08)
Publication Date 23/07/2008
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The European Commission adopted a proposal for a regulation banning the trading of seal products within, into, and from the European Union to ensure that products derived from seals killed and skinned in ways that cause pain, distress and suffering are not found on the European market. Trade in seal products would only be allowed where guarantees can be provided that hunting techniques consistent with high animal-welfare standards were used and that the animals did not suffer unnecessarily.

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