#Act4 Wildlife In his call for more decisive action, at Community and local level, to protect endangered species and biodiversity, European Commissioner Vella has spoken extremely clear words on the "wolf issue" which affects many Member States. EU Commissioner Vella says "Hands off wolves: biodiversity is at risk" 1 March 2019 LAV
#Act4 Wildlife It argued, in particular, that the working group did not include a sufficient number of experts on the alternatives to non-human primates in research. Ombudsman concludes no maladministration in selection of experts to evaluate the need for non-human primates in research 18 February 2019
#Act4 Aquatics The European Parliament and EU member states clinched an agreement late last night (13 February) over new technical conservation measures for fishing, which includes an EU-wide ban on the controversial pulse trawling starting from mid-2021. EU approves ban on electric pulse fishing from 2021 14 February 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals The JRC's status report on alternatives to animal testingis just out. The EC Joint Research Centre's alternatives to animal testing - Going for the win-win-win 7 February 2019
JRC scientists have co-edited and contributed to a special issue of Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology proposing how alternative methods to animal testing can be used to assess chemicals for their potential to disrupt brain development in children Study of alternatives for testing the neurotoxicity of chemicals shows higher value of in vitro and computational methods over use of animals 6 February 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The Big Agri industry has launched a multi-pronged attack on the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to End The Cage Age, writes Olga Kikou, the head of Compassion in World Farming EU. Agri-food industry harshly criticizes ‘End the Cage Age’ initiative 30 January 2019 Opinion
#Act4 LabAnimals This case concerned how the European Commission deals with updates of the Test Method Regulation (TMR), which defines the approved methods for chemical testing in the EU. Ombudsman suggests intensified efforts by Commission to speed uptake of non-animal chemical testing methods 30 January 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The castration of male piglets is a routine and long-standing practice in pig husbandry, common across most countries in the European Union (EU). European Commission shares best practices for the production, processing and marketing of meat from pigs that are not surgically castrated 29 January 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Here is an overview by policy area Commission urges Cyprus, Czechia, France, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain to speed up actions against invasive alien species 24 January 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The European Commission will send a team of inspectors to Poland on Monday after a TV report showed sick cows being butchered for food in a Polish slaughterhouse. EC inspectors to investigate Polish slaughterhouse in wake of TV report showing sick cows being slaughtered for food 23 January 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals In its declaration of 25 September 2007 on the use of primates in scientific experiments, Parliament asked the Commission to‘establish a timetable for replacing the use of all primates in scientific experiments with alternatives’. EC to review specific scientific uses of animals following the release of the first EU data in November 19 January 2019
African swine fever is "not out of control" in the European Union, according to EU Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis. Commissioner Andriukaitis says African Swine Fever is not out of control 18 January 2019