17 Amendments of Jens HOLM related to 2008/0160(COD)
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) To eliminate the present fragmentation of the internal market and to meet the animal welfare concerns of European citizens and taking into account nature conservation issues, there is a need to provide for harmonised rules while taking into account animal welfarbased on these considerations. A ban on placing seal products on the market is appropriate to thatese effects.
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital -1 (new)
Recital -1 (new)
The European Parliament called on the Commission to propose a total import ban on seal products, under point 70 of its Resolution of 12 October 2006 on a Community Action Plan on the Protection and Welfare of Animals 2006 – 20101, 1 OJ C 308E, 16.12.2006, p. 170.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1
Article 1
This Regulation establishes harmonised rules concerning the placing on the market and the import in, transit through, or export from, the European Community of seal products and meets animal welfare concerns while taking into account nature conservation issues.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital -1 a (new)
Recital -1 a (new)
On 26 September 2006 the European Parliament adopted a Written Declaration on banning seal products in the European Union1, 1 Texts adopted, P6_TA(2006)0369.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital -1 b (new)
Recital -1 b (new)
In Recommendation 1776 of 17 November 2006, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe invited its Member States, inter alia, to: a) ban all cruel hunting methods which do not guarantee the instantaneous death, without suffering, of the animals, prohibiting the stunning of animals with instruments such as hakapiks, bludgeons and guns; and b) promote initiatives aimed at prohibiting the import and marketing of seal-derived products,
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Seals are sentient animals that can experience pain, distress, fear and other forms of suffering.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The hunting of seals has led to expressions of serious concerns by members of the public, governments as well as the European Parliament sensitive to animal welfare considerations since there are indications that seals may not be killed and skinned without causing avoidable pain, distress and other forms of suffering. The European Food Safety Authority concluded, in its scientific opinion on the Animal Welfare aspects of the killing and skinning of seals, that it is possible to kill seals rapidly and effectively without causing them avoidableseals killed and skinned in commercial hunts consistently suffer pain or, distress, whilst also reporting that in practice, effective and humane killing does not always happen and other forms of suffering.
Amendment 31 #
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 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) It is appropriate, however, to provide for the possibility ofa limited derogations from the general ban on the placing on the market and the import in, or export from, the Community of seal products insofar as the appropriate conditions based on animal welfare considerations are met. To that effect, criteria should be provided for the compliance with which should ensure that seals are killed and skinned without causing avoidable pain, distress and other forms of suffering. Any such derogation should be granted at Community level so that uniform conditions apply throughout the Community with respect to the trade specifically allowed under those derogations and the smooth functioning of the internal market is preservedfor seal products derived from hunts conducted by Inuit communities.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Appropriate requirements should be provided for ensuring that the derogations to trade prohibitions for Inuit seal products can be properly enforced under this Regulation. To that effect, provisions should be made relating to certification schemes as well as on labelling and marking. Certification schemes should ensure that seal products are certified as coming from seals which have been killed and skinned in accordance with the appropriate requirements, which are effectively enforced, and whose object is to ensure that seals are killed and skinned without causing avoidable pain, distress and any other form of suffering.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1
Article 1
This Regulation establishes harmonised rules concerning the banning of the placing on the market and the import in, transit through, or export from, the European Community of seal products, except for all seal products derived from hunts conducted by Inuit communities.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
1. 'seal' means specimens of Pinnipeds belonging to the species listed in Annex I;
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 2
2. 'seal product' means allny products, either processed or unprocessed, derivinged or obtained from seals, including meat, oil, blubber, 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.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 4
Article 2 – paragraph 4
4. 'import' means any entry of goods into the customs territory of the Community, with the exception of imports that: (i) are of an occasional nature, and (ii) consist exclusively of goods for the personal use of the travellers or their families; the nature and quantity of such goods should not be such as might indicate they are being imported for commercial reasons.
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11
Article 11
1. Member States shall send every fivwithin two years of the entry into force of this Regulation and thereafter every three years to the Commission a report outlining the actions taken to enforce this Regulation. 2. On the basis of the reports referred to in paragraph 1, the Commission shall report to the European Parliament and the Council on the application of this Regulation within twelve months of the end of the five-yeareach reporting period concerned.
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 2
Articles 3 and 4 shall apply from [6 months after the date of entry into force of the Regulation unless the implementing measures referred to in Articles 3(3), 5(5), 6(2) and 7(2) are not in force on that date, in which case they shall apply on the day following the entry into force of those implementing measuresis Regulation].