1. Owing to their population level, geographical distribution and reproductive rate throughout the Community, the species listed in Annex II may be hunted under national legislation.

For each region, sub-region or subdivision, taking into account the different species and communities (e.g. for phytoplankton and zooplankton) contained in the indicative list in Table 1 of Annex III to Directive 2008/56/EC, it is necessary to draw up a set of relevant species and functional groups, having regard to point 2 of Part A. The three criteria for the assessment of any species are species distribution, population size and population condition.

Such an approach requires that the effects of human activities on the ecosystem be considered, including the effects of trawling on marine species and communities living on the seafloor (e.g., corals, sponges and other flora and fauna).

We wholeheartedly have a problem with government Motions Nos. 9 and 10. The government is trying to gut a provision the committee made that would have protected a subspecies of the endangered species community.

Council Decision 2006/871/EC of 18 July 2005 on the conclusion on behalf of the European Community of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds [Official Journal L 345, 8.12.2006]. In accordance with the Bonn Convention, which provides for the conclusion of regional agreements for species listed in Appendix II, on 1 September 1997 the Community signed an agreement establishing an appropriate international legal framework for the conservation of migratory waterbird species and populations, individuals of which migrate in the Palaearctic and Africa.

The greater the threat of extinction facing the species in question, the more restrictive will need to be the conditions for introducing them into the Community.