53In that regard, the Commission's paper, entitled ‘Second report on the application of Directive 79/409/EEC on the conservation of wild birds’ (COM(93) 572 final of 24 November 1993), indicates that, according to the work of the ORNIS committee, ‘small numbers’ should be understood to mean any sample of less than 1% of the total annual mortality rate of the population in question (average value) for those species which are not to be hunted and a sample in the order of 1% for those species which may be hunted, with ‘population in question’ being understood, with regard to migratory species, to mean the population of those regions from which come the main contingents passing through the region to which the derogation applies during its period of application.
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