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Federation of Veterinarians of Europe

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• Who we are• What we do• Our goals• Strategy and actions

The Federation of Veterinarians of Europe

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FVE is a Federation of42 veterinary organisationsin 37 European countries

Through its members, FVE represents approximately 200 000 veterinarians

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Austria

Belgium

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

FYR of Macedonia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia/Montenegro

Slovak Republic

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

United Kingdom

Albania

Ukraine

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FVE includes four specialised groups:

1. Veterinary Practitioners (UEVP)

2. Hygienists and Public Health Veterinarians (UEVH)

3. Veterinary State Officers (EASVO)

4. Veterinarians in industry, research and education (EVERI)

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FVE strongly believes in the need for good cooperation between

veterinarians in various positions

• private and public

• practitioner and official veterinarian

• in practice, food hygiene, education, research, industry …etc. etc.

Synergy is our strength!

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One Profession

One VisionOne Voice

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FVE’s objective

Representing the Veterinary Profession at the European level in order to:

• Promote Veterinary Medicine

• Support veterinarians in delivering their services and their responsibilities towards our societies

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Animals

Owners /Keepers

Society v

Science Knowledge / SkillsEthics / Attitude

ObjectiveIndependentImpartial

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ANIMAl L

HEALTH

PUBLIC

HEALTH

ANIMAL

WELFARE

Veterinary medicine

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FVE structure:

General Assembly (2 X per year)

Board of Directors (5 persons; 2 year mandate)

Brussels office

Several working groups

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Main areas of activity are:

• Animal health• Animal welfare• Veterinary public health

• Exercise of the veterinary profession• Veterinary education (pre and post grad)

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• to promote disease monitoring and surveillance

• to maintain the relation:Examination diagnosis intervention

• availability of veterinary medicinal products • pharmacovigilance

Animal health

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• to raise the awareness of individual veterinarians on their responsibility

• strengthen the position of animal welfare in veterinary curricula and CPD

• to promote animal welfare in a practical way

Animal welfare

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• to concentrate on the implementation of the EU hygiene package • to promote that veterinarians only certify issues for which veterinary expertise is essential and which they have verified as being correct

• to draw more attention to “ common” food born infections

Veterinary public health

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FVE has good contacts with organisations as:

• OIE • EU Institutions• CVOs• WVA• WHO• FAO • EAEVE• EBVS• and many veterinary professional organisations and NGO’s

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FVE newsletter

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Further information:

Tel (+ 32) 2 533 70 20info@fve.orgwww.fve.org

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““Hominum Animaliumque Hominum Animaliumque Saluti”Saluti”

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