#Act4 AnimalsEU Join us on Thursday, May 6, 2021 to discuss animal welfare in the context of the EU-India trade relations! Event - Planting the Animal Welfare Seed in EU - India Trade Relations 14 April 2021
#Act4 AnimalsEU The Animal Welfare Strategy 2012-2015 aimed to lay the foundation for improving animal welfare standards and to ensure that they were properly applied and enforced across the EU. Eurogroup for Animals congratulates the Commission on conducting a thorough and comprehensive evaluation process drawing lessons from the previous decade activities in the area of animal welfare. EU Strategy for the Protection and Welfare of Animals (2012-2015): the European Commission’s evaluation is finally out 7 April 2021
The universities of Leuven and Ghent will open a university chair programme dedicated to ethics and animal welfare. The place of animals in our society will be the main focus. Creation of a university research program dedicated to animal welfare in Belgium 24 August 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals By 2025, all breeding rabbits in professional farms in Flanders must be kept in ‘enriched parks’ that are more spacious and have tunnels and gnawing material. More space to improve the welfare of breeding rabbits 27 July 2020 GAIA
#Act4 FarmAnimals A label for animal-friendly meat. It already exists in the Netherlands, but Flemish Minister for Animal Welfare Ben Weyts (N-VA) now wants to introduce it throughout Flanders. Flemish Minister Ben Weyts wants a label for animal-friendly meat throughout Flanders 20 May 2019
The city of Mechelen cancels its fireworks on 11 and 21 July because they can be very testing for animals. Belgian city's public authorities bans fireworks for the sake of animals 21 March 2019
#Act4 Pets This is news that keeps coming up in the news, without us always understanding by what mechanism: "the Minister of Animal Welfare Carlo Di Antonio would seriously think about setting up a tax on pets. Fake tax on pets: Walloon Minister of Animal Welfare furious 19 February 2019