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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Council is aware that Iceland has said it is recommencing commercial whaling despite the International Whaling Commission’s moratorium on whaling, in effect since 1984. This issue was discussed at the meeting of the Environment Council on 23 October under ‘any other business’.
On 10 October 2002 Iceland rejoined the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling of 1946, although it expressed reservations with respect to the whaling moratorium. As the honourable Member knows, membership of the International Whaling Commission is open to every country officially aligned to the 1946 Convention. Each Member State can decide itself whether to join an international convention devoted to matters that do not fall within the exclusive competence of the Community. Up till now 18 Member States of the European Union have joined the Convention, and they are also members of the International Whaling Commission.
The Commission has pledged to protect whales, as endorsed in the Habitats Directive. The Directive provides for high levels of protection for whales, at the same time banning any deliberate hunting and killing of whales in Community waters. In addition, the import of whale meat and other whale-derived products into the Community for primarily commercial purposes is tightly restricted under Council Regulation (EC) No 338 of 1977.
When Iceland declared that it would recommence commercial whaling, 15 EU Member States that belong to the International Whaling Commission and the European Commission, together with Australia, the United States of America and eight other like-minded countries, made official contact with Reykjavik, urging Iceland to comply with the moratorium and end its commercial whaling activities."@en1
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