Activities of Carl SCHLYTER related to 2008/0160(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Trade in seal products (debate)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The various prohibitions provided for by this Regulation should respond to the animal welfare concerns expressed by members of the public as to the placing on the Community market, including further to imports from third countries, of seal products obtained from seals that might not have been killed and skinned without causing avoidable pain, distress and other forms of suffering.
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The fundamental economic and social interests of Inuit communities traditionally engaged in the hunting of seals as a means to ensure their subsistence shouldwill not be adversely affected. The hunt is an integrated part of the culture and the identity of the members of the Inuit society. It represents a source of income and contributes to the subsistence of the hunter. Therefore, s by this Regulation because subsistence hunting involves personal or family consumption only (and therefore not Community trade). Seal products deriving from hunts traditionally conducted by Inuit communities and which contribute to their subsistencefor subsistence purposes which enter the EU market only for cultural exchange purposes such as education or ceremony should not be covered by the prohibitions provided for in this Regulation.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 2
2. 'seal product' means all products, either processed or unprocessed, deriving or obtained from seals, including meat, oil, blubber, organs and raw fur skins and fur skins, tanned or dressed, including fur skins assembled in plates, crosses and similar forms as well as articles made from seal fur skins; with the exception of seal products derived from hunts conducted by Inuit communities that are traded as part of a non-commercial exchange between Inuit communities for cultural, educational, and/or ceremonial purposes.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. 'subsistence purposes' means the customary and traditional uses by Inuit communities of seal products for direct personal or family consumption as food, shelter, fuel, clothing, tools; for the making and domestic selling of handicraft articles out of non-edible by-products taken from seals for personal or family consumption; and for the exchange of seals or their parts if the exchange is of a limited and non-commercial nature, or for sharing for personal or family consumption.