Sentences with phrase «imported seal products»

Not exact matches

While these criticisms are focused on imported products, which make up just four percent of the U.S. organic market, I fear many consumers will read these headlines and question the value and integrity of all certified organic products... maybe even the USDA Organic seal itself.

The EU's prohibition will go into effect before next year's hunt, and will forbid all products containing anything derived from seals being imported, exported or transported across the 27 members of the EU.

In this post I will focus on the competence issue by discussing the particularities of EU constitutional law and the (modest) challenge a ban on the sale of exotic imports such as seal products poses for EU legislative competence.

In dismissing the arguments put forward by the seal hunters, the General Court made a number of interesting statements regarding the EU's ability to severely restrict trade of an «exotic import» (a product not made within the EU) within the EU's internal market on grounds of protecting the welfare of animals living outside the EU.

The EU seal products ban and the prohibition on the import of cosmetics tested on animals are identified as examples of producer - based initiatives.

In addition, imports are allowed if seal products are intended for personal use and not for commercial purposes, and seal products may be marketed if they are the result of national conservation measures.

The prohibition on imports [as a result of enforcement at the border of the marketing ban] is in fact laid down in order to prevent the placing on the market of seal products and, by that means, to achieve the sole objective of the basic regulation which is to improve the functioning of the internal market.

Formally speaking, the ban only affects the marketing of seal products, not their importation (although the ban is enforced at the border in accordance with the Ad Note to Article XI GATT), but there is no doubt that the Regulation amounts to a de facto import ban of seal products.

A Union - wide ban in seal products is therefore justified in order to restore consumer confidence «by offering them a general guarantee that no seal product would be marketed on the Union market, inter alia by banning the import of such products from third countries.»

Over the last year I found myself as parliamentarian at the centre of a legislative issue that provoked global interest: the import of the products of seal hunting into the European Union.