Consumer, Health & Environment

Analysis: “Restrictions in the Trade of Wild Animals Originating from Illegal Imports” (C-659/20 (Perroquets Ara hyacinthe))” by Alice Di Concetto

Alice Di Concetto

On 8 September 2022, the Court of Justice sided with the Czech Ministry of the Environment in deciding that an exotic animal breeder did not have the right to trade parrots who were the second-generation offspring of birds who had been illegally imported into the Union. In doing so, the Court specified the scope of Regulation 338/97 on the Protection of Species of Wild Fauna, and Regulation 338/97’s implementing regulation (Regulation 865/2006), both of which codify the 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

This case therefore concerns the trading of five parrots belonging to an endangered species, hyacinth macaws, who are uniquely large, visually stunning blue parrots native

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