Animal rights groups are applauding a European Commission move to adopt proposals to ban the import of pelts from seals.
But they also say the move falls short of what they want to see since it allows exemptions for products obtained from seal hunts that can show seals did not suffer unnecessarily.
Reuters reported Wednesday that the proposal stops short of calling for a total ban. It said the EU's executive body proposes products from the 900,000 seals hunted each year should be accepted in the EU only with guarantees that the seal has been killed as humanely as possible.
In Ottawa, a spokeswoman for the International Fund for Animal Welfare called the move a "very positive step."
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