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"en.20121122.31.4-259-000"2
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"Council Regulation (EC) No 1185/2003 on the removal of fins of sharks on board vessels and the present proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1185/2003 on the removal of fins of sharks on board vessels are both concerned with preventing and combating a practice commonly known as ‘finning’. This practice involves removing the fins from pelagic sharks, with the remaining parts of the animal’s body being thrown back into the sea. Finning is unacceptable from the environmental point of view (it threatens the sustainability of some shark species targeted by this practice), and also from the social and economic point of view (it involves squandering a source of food with commercial value) and from the moral point of view (it shows a total disrespect for animal life). I consider it essential that the practice of shark finning should be repudiated unequivocally, and appropriate measures should be taken to ensure that this practice is banned in European waters. It was against this background, with the express aim of preventing this practice, that the European Council adopted Regulation (EC) No 1185/2003 on 26 June 2003, which prohibits the removal of shark fins on board vessels, as well as their retention on board and their transhipment or landing. In spite of the lack of any evidence of finning being practised by the European fleet, the Commission intends to ‘eradicate the horrendous practice of shark finning and protect sharks much better’ through appropriate regulations."@en1
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