12 Amendments of Rosa MIGUÉLEZ RAMOS related to 2008/0211(COD)
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) On 24 November 1986 the Council adopted Directive 86/609/EEC in order to eliminate disparities betweenharmonise laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States regarding the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes. Since the adoption ofAccordingly, thatis Directive, further disparities between Member States have emerged. Certain Member States have adopted national implementing measures that ensure a high level of protection of animals used for scientific purposes while others only apply the minimum requirements laid down in Directive 86/609/EEC. Accordingly, this Directive should provide for more detailed rules in order to reduce such disparities and to ensure a proper functioning of the internal market should guarantee the application of harmonised objectives and minimum standards throughout the European Union.
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The methods selected should avoid, as far as possible, death as an end-point due to severe suffering caused by the approaching death. Where possible, it should be substituted by more humane end-pointethical methods using clinical signs that determine the impending death thereby allowing the animal to be killed by a humann appropriate method without any further suffering.
Amendment 153 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) To monitor compliance with this Directive, Member States should carry out at least two inspections annually in each establishment. To ensure public confidence and promote transparency at least one inspection a year must be unannounced. Programmes for joint inspections by Member States should be established to foster an environment of sharing good practice and expertisen average of one inspection per year.
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) live non-human vertebrate animals, including independently feeding larval forms and embryonic or foetal forms of mammals as from the last third of their normal development;
Amendment 184 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(ba) the improvement of the production conditions and welfare of animals reared for agricultural purposes.
Amendment 191 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – title
Article 6 – title
Amendment 193 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that animals are killed in an authorised establishment, by an authorised person and with a minimum of pain, suffering and distress and, in relation to the species included in Annex V, using the appropriate humane method of killing as set out in that Annex.
Amendment 194 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. Competent authorities may grant exemptions from paragraph 1 on the basis of scientific justification that the purpose of the procedure cannot be achieved by the use of a humann appropriate method of killing or that other methods providing better animal protection have been developed.
Amendment 215 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that animals belonging to the species listed in Annex II may only be used in procedures where those animals have been bred for use in procedures or for agronomic purposes.
Amendment 287 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 32 – paragraph 2
Article 32 – paragraph 2
2. For the purposes of points (a) and (b) of paragraph 1, Member States shall apply the care and accommodation standardsguidelines, tailored to the scientific objective, set out in Annex IV as from the dates provided for in that Annex.
Amendment 289 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 33 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 33 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. National inspections shall be carried out by the competent authority at least twice a yearon average once a year, with the competent authority adapting the frequency of inspection on the basis of a risk analysis for each establishment.
Amendment 290 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 33 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 33 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2