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Updates regarding the EU Ban of Seal Products:
EU panel approves ban on import of seal products:
The European Parliament is scheduled to vote on the proposed ban April 2. The European Council would then cast its decision on the matter, likely in June. "Canada and Greenland have warned the EU that they could challenge such a ban before the World Trade Organization." Read article at International Herald Tribune
" Canadian fisheries ambassador Loyola Sullivan concedes there will be some type of ban, but whether Canadian seal pelts and other products will be exempt from it is still up for debate."- The Canadiam Press
"The draft law would allow the import of seal products, including skin, meat, fat and oils, from countries that can guarantee their hunting practices are "consistent with high animal-welfare standards" and that the animals are killed swiftly without undue suffering. Special exemptions would be allowed for Canada's Inuit." -The Parliment
European senate proposed a ban on the sale of seal products GO!
Britain blasted for backing seal ban GO!
German parliament votes unanimously to ban seal product imports GO!
European Parliament to vote on a proposal to ban seal product trade GO!
Brigitte Bardot asks Nicolas Sarkozy to ban seal products GO!
Proposed seal-trade ban harpooned GO!
Russia to completely ban seal hunting by March 1, 2009 GO!
MEPs to vote on partial ban on seal products GO!
