DutchNews, December 16, 2016
The Dutch Supreme Court has rejected a claim from fur farmers that the pending ban on fur farming conflicts with their human rights.
The Dutch Supreme Court has rejected a claim from fur farmers that the pending ban on fur farming conflicts with their human rights.
The ban on fur farming was introduced in the Netherlands in 2013
and included an 11-year changeover period. In 2014 a lower court found in
favour of fur farmers who are furious at being ordered to shut down their
companies without compensation.
The state appealed against that ruling and last
year the appeal court said the new legislation does take the interest of fur
farmers sufficiently into account because of the 11-year changeover period.
Fur
farmers then took their case to the Supreme Court which has now upheld the ban
again. ‘There is a balance between the fundamental rights of mink farmers and
the general interest which is served by the new law,’ the court said in its
ruling.
The Netherlands has some 160 fur farms producing five million pelts a
year. The sector employs some 1,400 people. The Netherlands is the third
biggest fur farming nation in the world behind Denmark and China.
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