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Document 92003E000373

    WRITTEN QUESTION E-0373/03 by Torben Lund (PSE) to the Commission. Animal welfare and consumer information.

    Dz.U. C 242E z 9.10.2003, p. 124–124 (ES, DA, DE, EL, EN, FR, IT, NL, PT, FI, SV)

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    92003E0373

    WRITTEN QUESTION E-0373/03 by Torben Lund (PSE) to the Commission. Animal welfare and consumer information.

    Official Journal 242 E , 09/10/2003 P. 0124 - 0124


    WRITTEN QUESTION E-0373/03

    by Torben Lund (PSE) to the Commission

    (13 February 2003)

    Subject: Animal welfare and consumer information

    The European Union is facing a flood of cat and dog fur items in the form of toys, clothing, lining and homeopathic treatments, all of which are mislabelled, not labelled or made to appear as faux fur or other fur.

    Now that 10 Agriculture Ministers of the EU have asked the Commission to ban this consumer fraud under internal market considerations, would the Commission please state why it continues to ignore this and claim it cannot do anything about animal welfare concerns, when the Ministers have clearly stated they want consumer fraud tackled and it is an internal market crisis?

    Joint answerto Written Questions E-0373/03 and E-1145/03given by Mr Byrne on behalf of the Commission

    (29 April 2003)

    The Commission does not ignore the issue of imports of cat and dog furs. The Commission is currently examining the questions raised taking into consideration the respective requirements of World Trade Organisation (WTO) law, legal bases under Community law and the interplay with existing legislation to prevent consumer deception.

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