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- BirdLife welcomes European Court decision
- Full text of European Court’s hunting decision
- BirdLife reiterates its position & calls for end to spring hunting
- EU Commission takes Malta to Court over spring hunting
- Ornis committee refrains from making spring hunting decision
- BirdLife urges Ornis Committee not to be used as scapegoat
- EU issues final warning to Malta about spring hunting
- International impact of our hunting and trapping
- Spring hunting season closed
- European outrage as spring hunting begins
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Today’s decision by the European Court of Justice to issue interim measures preventing Malta from opening the 2008 spring hunting and trapping season for Turtle Dove and Quail has been welcomed by BirdLife Malta.
The decision implies that the Maltese government is banned from opening spring hunting until a final decision is taken in the ongoing Court case on this issue.
In January 2008 the European Commission had taken the Maltese government to Court for having allowed, every spring since the country’s accession to the EU in 2004, hunting of Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur) and Common Quail (Coturnix coturnix), in direct contravention of the EU Birds Directive. Hunting during the sensitive breeding and spring migration period is prohibited under EU law, in all Member States.
Joseph Mangion, President of BirdLife Malta said: “The overwhelming majority of the Maltese are against spring hunting and they want to see their government protect our common European natural heritage. It is now time for law enforcement against illegal bird shooting and trapping to be stepped up so that this ban will be effective.”
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