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In our country, the Netherlands, we have for many years been engaged in battle against the muskrat, an American import that has undermined our dikes and as a result, threatens to make the lowlands uninhabitable for man.
Despite this, we support the rapporteur, Mrs Scheele, who proposes an outright rejection of this proposal about the humane trapping of certain animal species. Humane means both ‘human’ and ‘decent’. People have, over the course of time, done the most hideous things – things that may have been human but were certainly not decent.
In the Commission proposal, amputations, eye injuries, bone marrow injuries and a struggle for life lasting up to five minutes are considered humane. Since 1995, wildlife traps have been banned across the European Union, and an import ban has been introduced on animal skins from countries where such traps are still in use. There was a proposal to tighten up the requirements for other traps as long ago as 1996.
A lobby of trappers then managed to sideline the experts. Subsequently, an agreement was signed with the USA, Canada and Russia, which was mainly intended to avoid trade conflicts rather than to improve animal welfare. This proposal is founded on this flawed agreement, something to which this Parliament has objected before."@en1
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