Regulation (EC) No 1007/2009 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Article 2 U.K. Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

1.

‘seal’ means specimens of all species of pinnipeds (Phocidae, Otariidae and Odobenidae);

2.

‘seal product’ means all products, either processed or unprocessed, deriving or obtained from seals, including meat, oil, blubber, organs, raw fur skins and fur skins, tanned or dressed, including fur skins assembled in plates, crosses and similar forms, and articles made from fur skins;

3.

‘placing on the market’ means introducing onto the [F1 United Kingdom] market, thereby making available to third parties, in exchange for payment;

4.

‘Inuit’ means indigenous members of the Inuit homeland, namely those arctic and subarctic areas where, presently or traditionally, Inuit have aboriginal rights and interests, recognised by Inuit as being members of their people and includes Inupiat, Yupik (Alaska), Inuit, Inuvialuit (Canada), Kalaallit (Greenland) and Yupik (Russia);

4a.

[F2 ‘other indigenous communities’ means communities in independent countries who are regarded as indigenous on account of their descent from the populations which inhabited the country, or a geographical region to which the country belongs, at the time of conquest or colonisation or the establishment of present State boundaries and who, irrespective of their legal status, retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political institutions;]

5.

‘import’ means any entry of goods into the customs territory of the [F3 United Kingdom].

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 2(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seal Products (Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1034), regs. 1, 3(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Inserted by Regulation (EU) 2015/1775 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 October 2015 amending Regulation (EC) No 1007/2009 on trade in seal products and repealing Commission Regulation (EU) No 737/2010 (Text with EEA relevance).

F3 Words in Art. 2(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seal Products (Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1034), regs. 1, 3(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)