Activities of Jan CREMERS related to 2008/0160(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Trade in seal products (debate)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
Amendment 66 #
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 should 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, it is appropriate to provide for the possibility of derogations from the general ban on the placing on the market and the import to, or export form, the Community, of seal products deriving from hunts traditionally conducted by Inuit communities and which contributeare vital to their subsistence should not be covered by the prohibitions provided for in this Regulation, insofar as the appropriate conditions based on animal welfare are met and insofar as these conditions can be effectively enforced by the relevant authorities. To that effect, criteria should be provided for, compliance with which should ensure that seals are killed and skinned without causing avoidable pain, distress or 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 these derogations and the smooth functioning of the internal market is preserved.
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 a (new)
Recital 13 a (new)
(13a) Seal products should only be placed on the market, imported, transiting, or exported if they meet the conditions provided for to that effect by this Regulation. However, if placed on the market, imported or exported in accordance with a derogation granted under this Regulation, seal products should also comply with the relevant Community legislation, including animal health and food and feed safety provisions, as appropriate. This Regulation should not affect the obligations under Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 October 2002 laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption concerning the disposal of seal products for public and animal health reasons.
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Appropriate requirements should be provided for ensuring that derogations to trade prohibitions on seal products deriving from hunts traditionally conducted by Inuit communities 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 from Inuit communities 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 80 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) In particular, the Commission should be empowered to adopt all measures necessary to ensure that procedures are in place allowing applications for derogation to the trade prohibitions of seal products deriving from hunts traditionally conducted by Inuit communities set out in this Regulation to be lodged and handled in an efficient manner, as well as to ensure the proper implementation of the provisions of this Regulation concerning certification schemes and labelling and marking. Since those measures are of a general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation by supplementing it, inter alia , by supplementing it with new non-essential elements, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC. The Commission should also be empowered to decide on derogations to trade prohibitions of seal products deriving from hunts traditionally conducted by Inuit communities under this Regulation, suspension or revocation thereof. Since those measures are adopted to ensure the management of the scheme provided for in this Regulation and apply it in individual cases, they must be adopted in accordance with the management procedure provided for in Article 4 of Decision 1999/468/EC.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 7
Article 2 – point 7
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to seal products resulting from hunts traditionally conducted by Inuit communities and which are vital to their subsistence and where the following conditions are met: a) they have been obtained from seals killed and skinned in a countribute to their subsistence. y where, or by persons to whom, adequate legislative provisions or other requirements apply ensuring effectively that seals are killed and skinned without causing avoidable pain, distress and any other form of suffering; (b) the legislative provisions or other requirements referred to in point (a) are effectively enforced by the relevant authorities; (c) an appropriate scheme is in place whereby seal products, including seal skins and other raw materials derived from seals used to produce seal products, are certified as coming from seals to which the conditions laid down in points (a) and (b) apply, and (d) the fulfilment of the conditions laid down in points (a), (b) and (c) is evidenced by: (i) a certificate, and (ii) a label or marking, where a certificate does not suffice to ensure the proper enforcement of this Regulation, in accordance with Articles 6 and 7.
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4
Article 4
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. ApplicantInuit communties requesting a derogation which demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Commission that the conditions provided for in Article 4(1) are met shall be granted a derogation.