2 Amendments of Cristian-Silviu BUŞOI related to 2015/0028(COD)
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) Bearing in mind that Regulation (EC) No 1007/2009 was adopted following years of widespread campaigns based on misperceptions about seal hunts conducted by the Inuit and other indigenous communities while co- legislators specifically committed themselves to avoiding any potential adverse effects on Inuit and other indigenous communities and taking into account the rights of Inuits and other indigenous peoples under international law and the objective pursued by Regulation (EC) No 1007/2009 to restore consumer confidence in seal products resulting from hunts conducted by the Inuit and other indigenous communities and placed on the Union market, in order to ensure the full implementation and effective application of the exception from the general ban for seal products trade, the Commission together with the Member States should develop awareness- raising campaigns and other appropriate measures. Those measures may include measures to restore consumer confidence in seal products resulting from seal hunts conducted by the Inuit and other indigenous communities in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1007/2009 and targeted retail information to counter wide-spread negative portrayal, stigmatization and misperception by providing factual information about the seal hunts conducted by Inuits and other indigenous peoples. This could further contribute to building mutual trust between European and Arctic peoples and to strengthening the Union's position as a credible partner in the Arctic region.
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) A genuinely humane killing method cannot be effectively and consistently applied in the hunts conducted by the Inuit and other indigenous communities, just like in the other seal hunts. Nonetheless, it is appropriate, in light of the objective pursued by Regulation (EC) No 1007/2009, to make the placing in the Union market of products resulting from hunts by the Inuit and other indigenous communities conditional upon those hunts being conducted in a manner which reduces avoidable pain, distress, fear or other forms of suffering of the animals hunted to the extent possible, while having regard to the traditional way of life and the subsistence needs of the Inuit and other indigenous communities. The exception granted in respect of seal products resulting from hunts conducted by Inuit and other indigenous communities should be limited to hunts that contribute to the subsistence need of those communities and are therefore not conducted primarily for commercial purposes. Thus, the Commission should be enabled to limit, if necessary, the quantity of seal products placed on the market under that exception in order to prevent the use of the exception by products resulting from hunts which are conducted primarily for commercial purposes.