Certain products derived from poultry, ratites and farmed and wild feathered game slaughtered or hunted before 12 December 2007 should continue to be authorised from the whole of Israel, taking into account the incubation period of avian influenza.

By way of derogation from Article 3(b), Member States shall authorise the importation of the products referred to in Article 3(b)(i), (ii) and (iii), which have been obtained from birds slaughtered or hunted before 12 December 2007.

Prior to the meeting in Chile, the Council adopted by qualified majority a common position for the purposes of that meeting. This supported the maintenance of the moratorium, opposed any proposals regarding new types of whaling unless these would “guarantee a significant improvement in the conservation status of whales in the long term and bring all whaling operations by IWC members under IWC control”, also supported proposals aimed at ending ‘scientific whaling’ outside IWC control, for the creation of whale sanctuaries and for the management of aboriginal subsistence whaling, subject to various conditions.

– Mr President, for purposes of clarification, I wish to add the words ‘at the time’ after the word ‘Commission’, so now Amendment 7 would read, ‘notes that prior to the accession to the European Union, the Maltese Government stated that it had negotiated a derogation on spring hunting with the Commission; regrets that the despite the fact that other political forces and segments of civil society in Malta had challenged the Maltese Government’s statements, the Commission at the time opted to remain silent on the subject, thus bringing about a potentially ambivalent situation’.

When a more extensive inspection is made on the basis of such suspicions, the veterinarian must wait until that inspection has been concluded before assessing all the game killed during a specific hunt, or those parts suspected of showing the same abnormalities.

In the latter case, the hunter must present the wild game to the gamekeeper or game manager and inform them of any abnormal behaviour observed before killing.