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"Madam President, I welcome the accession of the EU to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. This will enable the EU to take a committed position and play a full role in the Convention. Article 191 allows the EU to promote measures at international level to deal with worldwide environmental problems; and what could be more apposite than endangered species? All Member States are signed up to CITES already, so why the necessity for this accession? What does it add?
In my view this will give the EU a platform to move forward together at the Conference of the Parties, employing the power and influence of all 28 Member States together, and I hope that in the near future we will be able to use this influence to promote tougher enforcement of the licensing system. Barely a week goes by when we do not see some new seizure of goods or medicines fashioned from endangered species, from tigers’ bones to rhino horn. Last week we saw in Hong Kong just such a thing. I would like to see this as just the very beginning of the EU’s new approach to CITES. The burden of the questions should be moved not from what we can trade, but why we should trade at all, and the EU could be at the forefront of that discussion."@en1
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