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Update running dossiers12) Animal Welfare
FVE General Assembly19 November 2011, Brussels
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NEW ANIMAL WELFARE STRATEGY
- Strategy and action plan was published Jan- Launch conference 29 Feb-1 March- EP report - Council conclusions report
FVE opinion: FVE/010/DOC/035
Key players-Leading committee: DG AGRI by rapporteur M. Paulsen- Opinion committees: DG ENVI by Liotard Kartika TamaraDG Petitions by Botinaru Victor
Forecast- draft report March Mrs. Paulsen- amendments - vote June in committee, July in plenary
Focus- enforcement existing legislation- network reference centres- EU animal welfare Law
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European Parliament reaction STRATEGY
Key players-Leading committee: DG AGRI by rapporteur J. Wojciechowski- Opinion committees: DG ENVI by Liotard Kartika TamaraDG Tran by L. de grandes Pascual
Forecast- draft report March Mrs. Wojciechowski- amendments - vote July in committee, September in plenary
Focus-taking into account full cost of animal transport- focus on increased control and reduction lenght
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EP reaction TRANSPORT
8-hour max for slaughter animals
Signatures: > 1 103 248
Written Declaration 49/2011: Adopted
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EP reaction TRANSPORT
On:
- Animal welfare strategy COM (2012)0006- Commission transport report COM(2011)700
Forecast- adoption council conclusions in June
Focus
VAGUE document with many reflections, notes, etc but no concrete actionSupports consideration AW law, reference centres, information to consumer (maybe through vol labelling), simplified journey log, etc etc
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Council reaction: Council conclusions
- Reference centres on animal welfare: FVE part of consortium
- Study on dogs and cats in economic activities
Religious slaughter
- Study on labelling re slaughter methods- Study on rotating pens for cattle
- ….
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Future AW initiatives
- FVE/Sanco / national collaboration
- 3+1 workshops (~100 practitioners + 30 zoo vets/workshop)
Budapest September 2011Barcelona December 2011 Riga April 2012Romania June
- program (2 days): * general principles AW* theoretical parallel session for poultry/cattle/pigs * hands-on sessions ON FARM
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Workshops on AW for practitioners
Barcelona
RIGA
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Overall feedback Workshops (1/2)
• Feedback participants extremely positive• Very interactive conference full of discussion,
focused on critical issues experienced in daily practice
• Show welfare assessment based on animal-based criteria
• Participants generally welcome it but needs to become more practical and not too time consuming
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Overall feedback Workshops (2/2)
• Animal based criteria are seen as future by legislators, retailers, etc
« Council calls upon EC to see whether benchmarking based on outcome based animal welfare indicators could be used to inform consumers »
• Vets should be the one doing these welfare assesments so we need to prepare them
• July meeting EFSA on Animal based assesment protocol -) request 3 FVE experts
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Future???
• Current budget has finished but seen success they have decided to propose a new budget to be adopted (hopefully) in June
• Aim to do 2 (3) extra conferences• Possible countries: Italy, Netherlands, Bulgaria • More focus on not a one-off conference but
getting a lasting change.
Thank You
Questions, comments are always welcome!
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