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Newsbook Photo by BirdLife Malta A recent conference on hunting legislation organised by the European Parliament in conjunction with the European Federation for Hunting and Conservation saw a senior official from the European Commission dismiss the derogation Malta has sought to permit the continued trapping of finches and other songbirds. Malta has controversially allowed for finches to be trapped for “scientific” reasons, but this justification has proven controversial, not least since th...

European Commission official says Malta has no justification for bird trapping derogations Finch trapping had to stop when Malta’s exceptional transition period lapsed five years after joining the EU, Brussels official says 1 March 2021, 1:36pm by Kurt Sansone Malta’s latest attempt to justify finch trapping on scientific grounds was questioned by a top Brussels official, who had been involved in EU accession negotiations. Micheal O’Briain, deputy head of the Nature Unit in the European ...