Paris, December 21, 2021 New European regulation on trade in ivory and ivory-containing objects Urgent need to modify the definition of musical instruments The new European regulation concerning the trade of ivory - in raw form or worked into objects - will...
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Paris, December 21, 2021 New European regulation on trade in ivory and ivory-containing objects Urgent need to modify the definition of musical instruments The new European regulation concerning the trade of ivory - in raw form or worked into objects - will be published in the Official Journal of the EU on 31 December 2021. It will enter into force on January 19, 2022. This text tightens the existing regulations, by strengthening the trade bans, in line with the decisions taken in the framework of CITES. The objective is to fight elephant poaching and ivory trafficking. During the 4 years of elaboration of the new regulation, the musical instrument professionals together with representatives of musicians and orchestras were involved as stakeholders. It was agreed that exemptions would be made for musical instruments, given the low volumes of ivory used for musical instruments, the ivory used being old, legal and, in some cases, recovered from other instruments. The text that has just b
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