#Act4 FarmAnimals The Agriculture and Rural Development Committee on Tuesday resumed the 1 October hearing of the Polish candidate for the agriculture portfolio, Janusz Wojciechowski. Welfare-friendly Janusz Wojciechowski confirmed as next Commissioner for Agriculture 8 October 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Last week, the European Parliament's committees held their constitutive meetings and elected their Chairs. European Parliament elects British Liberal Democrat MEP as chair of the PECH committee 15 July 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals In an interview with EURACTIV France, French MEP and vice-chair of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group, Eric Andrieu, spoke about the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), highlighting its lack of environmental provisions. French MEP makes encouraging statement on animal welfare in the CAP 12 July 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals In Paris a few weeks ago, at the height of the EU election campaign, a report on biodiversity and aimed at global decision makers was released, and made quite a commotion. Avoiding ecosystem collapse will require a different Common Agricultural Policy 18 June 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Two NGOs - Animal Liberation Malta and VeggyMalta - have twinned to ask MEP candidates ten questions in a campaign we are calling “Tell them how you will vote, before we vote for you”. European Parliament Maltese candidates face questions on vegan and animal rights issues 30 May 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Those are One Health, Public Health and Food Safety, Animicrobial resistance, Education and Research, and access to medicines services. Federation of Veterinarians of Europe share their manifesto for the European Elections 2019 25 April 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The committee will vote on the rules that EU countries will have to follow when determining how to distribute subsidies to their farming sector. MEPs to vote on the future of intensive farms 2 April 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Prevention and punishment of false declarations of compliance with animal welfare eligibility criteria made in order to obtain promotional funding Pork meat: EC states that false claims by producers of compliance with animal welfare standards can lead to reduction or suspension of promotional funding 28 February 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals On 5th February Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), together with Svenska Djurskyddforeningen, organised a debate at the European Parliament to discuss how mobile slaughter can break the chain of long-distance transport, reducing unnecessary suffering for the animals. CIWF: Examining two solutions to reduce animal suffering – Mobile slaughter and meat analogues 11 February 2019 CIWF
#Act4 FarmAnimals On 25 October 2018, the European Parliament adopted a new legislative framework for veterinary medicinal products and medicated feed, a step forward in preventing the rise in antibiotic resistance. New legislation prevents use of antibiotics in animal feed after massive contamination by antimicrobial resistant genes 6 February 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals In the People’s Republic of China, efforts to ‘control’ the African swine fever (ASF) virus include burying domesticated pigs alive. African Swine Fever: EU raises concerns with China over live burial of diseased pigs 28 January 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The European Parliament voted today to adopt the first-ever multiannual plan for fishing in the Western Mediterranean Sea but rejected the necessary conservation measures that would fix the region’s overfishing crisis, where over 80% of stocks are overexploited and some at risk of collapse. European Parliament fails to adopt necessary conservation measures in first Western Mediterranean fishing plan 10 January 2019
