Traduction de «Commerce d'organes d'animaux menacés » (Français → Anglais) :

20. Acknowledges that the value of the illegal trade in wild animal species is estimated to be second only to the international trade in illegal drugs and that the levels of exploitation and trade in some species are so high that their populations are being severely depleted; requires improved monitoring of imports of wild animals and wild animal products so that the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is upheld, and enforcement improved in order to save animals from the threat of extinction; considers that the EU could play a significant role in the control of the international trade in wildlife but needs to reflect more ...[+++] accurately the widespread public opposition to renewed ivory trading throughout Europe and the consistent support of the European Parliament for full protection of elephants under CITES;

57. Is concerned that, with 60% of the world's remaining tigers being in India, the planned but delayed all-India tiger census may show a drop in numbers to a critical low of 1 500 tigers in the country; acknowledges that the value of the illegal trade in wild animal species is estimated to be second only to the international trade in illegal drugs and that the levels of exploitation and trade in some species, such as tigers, are so high that their populations are being severely depleted; requires improved monitoring of imports of wildlife specimens and ...[+++] wildlife products so that the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is upheld, and enforcement improved in order to save endangered species from the threat of extinction; calls on the EU offer cooperation and technical assistance to India to help maintain its biodiversity and tackle the illegal trade in wildlife; calls for the issue of tiger protection in general, and combating the trade in tiger skin, bones and body parts in particular, including through customs cooperation, to be placed on the agenda of the next meeting of the EU-India Environment Forum;

(3) In the light of the results of a dispute settlement case brought before the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by the United States of America and by Canada (the Hormones case)(5) and recommendations made in that respect by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body on 13 February 1998, the Commission immediately initiated a complementary risk assessment, in accordance with the requirements of the Agreement on the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures (WTO-GATT)(6) as interpreted by the appellate body in the Hormones case, of the six hormonal substances (oestradiol 17ß, testosterone, progesterone, trenbolone acetate, zeranol and meleng ...[+++]estrol acetate) whose administration for animal growth promotion purposes is prohibited by Directive 96/22/EC.

CITES is an international agreement whose aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.

The specific anti-money laundering legislation (Law of 11-1-1993, as amended) covers the laundering of proceeds linked to crimes involving: terrorism, organised criminality, drugs trafficking, illicit trafficking in arms and other goods, trafficking in clandestine labour, trafficking in human beings, prostitution, illegal use of hormones in animals, trafficking in human organs or tissues, fraud prejudicing the financial interests of the EU, serious and organised tax fraud, ...[+++] corruption of public officials, investment irregularities, swindling, hostage-taking, theft or extortion with violence and threats and fraudulent bankruptcy.

The Siberian tiger, the Bengal tiger, the clouded leopard, endangered birds, animals and plant life, Canada is a major conduit for dispersing these parts from our country to other areas.