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Submission by the UK Government to the Standing Committee of the Bern Convention

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Background 1 - 12

Badger Protection

1

Bovine Tuberculosis

5

Government policy prior to 1997

10
Krebs Scientific Review of TB in Cattle and Badgers 13 - 17
Follow up to Krebs Report 18 - 35

Five point strategy

18

Controlling TB in cattle

25

The research programme

28

The culling trial

32
Effect of the Trial on GB Badger Populations 36 - 43
Compatability with the Bern Convention 44 - 55

Article 7

45

Article 8

48

Article 9

52
Response to Recommendation No. 69 56 - 63
Conclusion 64 - 69

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