| Montreal, 17/07/2007 – On 13 July 2007, the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) made public its determination that submission SEM-07-003 (Seal Hunting) does not meet all the eligibility requirements of Article 14 of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC). The Secretariat granted the Submitters a period of 30 days in which to file a revised submission with additional information.
The submission was filed with the Secretariat on 26 June 2007, by Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental A.C. and Conservación de Mamíferos Marinos de México (the “Submitters”). The Submitters assert that the Canadian government is failing to effectively enforce its laws with respect to the harp seal hunt that takes place in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and along the Newfoundland and Labrador coast in Canada every year in the spring. The Secretariat determined that the submission does not identify provisions of environmental law as required by the NAAEC.
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