2020/2085(INI) Implementation report on on-farm animal welfare
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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | AGRI | DECERLE Jérémy ( Renew) | ŠOJDROVÁ Michaela ( EPP), AVRAM Carmen ( S&D), GUERREIRO Francisco ( Verts/ALE), DAVID Ivan ( ID), JURGIEL Krzysztof ( ECR), HAZEKAMP Anja ( GUE/NGL) |
Committee Opinion | ENVI | MORTLER Marlene ( EPP) | Jytte GUTELAND ( S&D), Anja HAZEKAMP ( GUE/NGL), Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU ( RE), Pietro FIOCCHI ( ECR), Aurélia BEIGNEUX ( ID), Manuela RIPA ( Verts/ALE) |
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RoP 54
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2021/06/22
EP - Committee draft report
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2020/07/14
EP - DECERLE Jérémy (Renew) appointed as rapporteur in AGRI
2020/05/27
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2020/05/14
EP - MORTLER Marlene (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
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- Committee draft report: PE695.007
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Amendments | Dossier |
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2020/2085(INI)
2021/06/25
ENVI
257 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Citation 1 a (new) - having regard to the European Commission’s Fitness Check Roadmap to assess the effectiveness, relevance, efficiency and consistency of on-farm animal welfare including EU rules on animal transport and slaughter;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the latest scientific knowledge and increased consumer interest show the need for revising and introducing new legislation to improve animal welfare and make the farming of animals more sustainable;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the Council’s efforts to promote the development of an EU animal welfare label based on harmonised and technically substantiated criteria; deeply regrets that 24 various animal welfare labelling systems across the EU at farm level reinforce a fragmented and inefficient labelling system; considers that a harmonised coherent labelling methodology that fully integrates animal welfare should provide transparent information on the animal’s quality of life from birth, including live transport and slaughter; recommends that this should include photographic images of the animals that are kept under organic farming, conventional farming and factory farming production methods that clearly and concisely indicate the use of GMOs, antibiotics, pesticides and veterinary medicines in animal production in order to promote fair competition and empower consumers to make informed and sustainable food choices;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the Council’s efforts to promote the development of an EU animal welfare label based on harmonised and technically substantiated criteria, which should be species-specific and cover all the stages of the life of the animal, and underlines the importance of a mandatory method of production and origin labelling of meat and dairy products in order to increase transparency, empower consumers and create a level-playing field;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the Council’s efforts to promote the development of an EU animal welfare label based on harmonised and technically substantiated criteria; stresses, however, that labels are insufficient for guaranteeing high animal welfare and can only be considered complementary or transitional measures; believes that if a label is to be developed, it must be made mandatory in order to be effective and sufficiently inform consumers;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the Council’s efforts to promote the development of an EU animal welfare label based on harmonised and
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the Council’s efforts to promote the development of an EU animal welfare label based on harmonised and technically substantiated criteria; takes the view that this label should provide consumers with information relating to all stages of the life of farm animals from birth including transport and slaughter;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the Council’s efforts to promote the development of an EU animal welfare label based on harmonised and technically substantiated criteria
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the Council’s efforts to promote the development of an EU animal welfare label based on harmonised and technically substantiated criteria and the immediate implementation of this animal welfare provision;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Welcomes the Council's efforts to promote, where possible, the development of a European animal welfare label based on harmonised and technically sound criteria.
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas European citizens are increasingly concerned about animal suffering and improving the welfare of farm animals is an insistent and important demand from consumers; whereas high animal welfare standards contribute to the quality of products and farmers must be able to benefit from all the necessary support from the European Union to meet the expectations of European consumers by making a transition to models that better respect animal sensitivity;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Recalls the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission found that 9,500 hazardous algae blooms are becoming more frequent through climate change and increased fish farming and aquaculture, fish feed and waste dispersed into the seas is directly causing the proliferation of harmful microalgae blooms, causing fish to die from a lack of oxygen; calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement measures to improve water quality, disease control and to limit stocking densities in aquaculture production in the interests of human health and animal welfare and to take steps to improve the welfare of marine invertebrates, like crabs and lobsters, by including these animals in their animal welfare legislation and harmonised labelling proposal and by banning the practice of boiling these animals alive;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses that addressing the suffering of animals cannot be effectively addressed through market measures, and instead requires the introduction and implementation of binding high standards for animal welfare; believes that in fact there is no issue with lack of demand among people for high animal welfare products, and that it is obvious that people do not want to contribute to the suffering of animals; in this light, considers that any harmonised EU animal welfare label will be insufficient for achieving systemic change to properly address the suffering of animals;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Deplores the low level of checks on compliance with animal welfare legislation; calls for increased efforts in monitoring implementation and for the use of harmonised and appropriate sanctions in all Member States; calls on the European Commission to launch infringement procedures against Member States that fail to meet their animal welfare obligations without delay;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses that, in the context of food safety, environmental protection, climate action, animal welfare and equality between Member States, the Commission must at all times ensure strict enforcement of European legislation and calls on the Commission to make more and better use of infringement procedures in this regard, including strong sanctions;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Commission to submit regular reports to Parliament on the implementation and enforcement of the Union animal welfare legislation, identifying gaps and including a breakdown of infringements by Member State, by species and by type of infringement, in relation to the volume of live animal transport per Member State;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Strongly believes that there should be mandatory EU-level animal welfare label; considers that this would improve transparency and increase consumer awareness, while encouraging improvements in animal welfare; points out that according to the implementation study, stakeholders generally consider that an EU label should set out criteria that are species-specific, cover all the stages of the life of the animal and, with the exception of the EU meat industry sector, strictly focus on animal welfare aspects;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Highlights the fact that the animal welfare label should be mandatory for all animal source food products sold in the EU, based on a core and standardized set of animal welfare indicators which should cover the entire supply chain: breeding, fattening, transport and slaughter;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses out that such an animal welfare label should provide transparent information on the animal’s life from birth, including live transports and method of slaughter, including whether the animal was pre-stunned and by which system;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. The animal welfare label should include information on production methods and a selection of scientifically- based animal protection indicators concerning, inter alia, husbandry systems and transport;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas consumer interest in the origin, preservation and quality of food purchased is higher than ever, and whereas food quality in relation to animal welfare and animal health therefore has an important part to play in achieving the goals of the Green Deal;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Recalls that the Commission is preparing a future EU label; reiterates that this label has to cover the farming, transport and slaughter of the animals;
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Commission to bring in a mandatory label that will give consumers precise information on: – the farming method: intensive or extensive, with or without cages; – the transport method: by land or sea, over a short or long distance; –the slaughter method: with or without prior stunning;
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Points out that additional efforts on the part of farmers to improve animal welfare must be rewarded accordingly through trade;
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Welcomes the Commission intention to review the Council Regulation 1099/2009 (Slaughter Regulation); stresses the need to align the legislative text with the latest scientific knowledge and evidence, broaden its scope to fish and set mandatory and harmonised higher animal welfare provision for mobile slaughter;
Amendment 125 #
2b. Stresses that public awareness and understanding of animal welfare in food production is significantly improved through education in schools and advertising campaigns;
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Encourages the Member States to strengthen awareness of animal welfare in the context of school courses and in particular in agricultural training courses;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Calls on the Commission to bring forward proposals without delay to immediately ban the cruel and unnecessary force-feeding of ducks and geese for the production of foie gras;
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Reiterates its call on the Commission to bring forward proposals to ban the cruel and unnecessary force- feeding of ducks and geese for the production of foie gras;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Highlights that legal standards designed to protect fish are generally far fewer and less stringent than those designed to protect other animals farmed for human consumption; in light of this, points out the need to align EU regulations on fish welfare to the standards set out in the OIE Aquatic Animal Health Code;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas animal welfare is a topic of growing interest for society as it becomes more sensitive to how animals are treated, and especially how they are farmed;
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Calls for our standards of animal protection and welfare to be complied with also in the case of imports from outside the EU if the competitiveness of European producers is to be guaranteed;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Draws attention to the
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Draws attention to the importance of animal welfare during transport and welcomes the establishment of the ANIT committee of inquiry; considers that findings of the Committee should be duly taken into consideration by the European Commission and the Member States and its recommendations should be reflected in the necessary revision of the animal transport regulation No 1/2005; considers that this revision should, among others, strengthen the role of contingency plans for long journeys and pay more attention to physiological and ethological needs of animals during transport as demanded by the scientific veterinarian community;
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Draws attention to the importance of animal welfare during transport and welcomes the establishment of the ANIT committee of inquiry; recalls that the transport of live animals leads too often to severe animal welfare problems; calls on the European Commission and the Member States to encourage a transition to the transport of meat, carcasses and genetic material and to explore the possibilities of using and developing mobile slaughterhouses and on-farm slaughter;
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Draws attention to the importance of animal welfare during live transport and welcomes the establishment of the ANIT
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Draws attention to the importance of animal welfare during transport and welcomes the establishment of the ANIT committee of inquiry in order to examine alleged violations in the application of European Union law on the protection of animals during transport within and outside the EU;
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Draws attention to the importance of ensuring high animal welfare during transport in the meantime, as part of the transition to ending the transport of animals, and welcomes the establishment of the ANIT committee of inquiry;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Emphasises that the transport of live animals does not only pose severe risks to the welfare and health of the animals transported, but also to public health due to the possible spread of diseases, and underlines in this regard the importance of reducing, refining and replacing live transport and to make sure that the revision of the Council Directive1/2005/EC of 22 December 2004 on the protection of animals during transport contains comprehensive species- and category-specific requirements, especially with regards to the maximum duration of a transport, and a more strict and transparent monitoring and reporting system to ensure that systematic violations will be effectively identified and prevented, and that this revision is in full alignment with the objectives of the Farm to Fork Strategy;
Amendment 139 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Recalls the recent events in the Mediterranean Sea (Elbeik and Karim Allah cases) and in the Suez Canal; stresses that animal welfare requirements can hardly be met during long-distance journeys of farm animals, especially during transport by sea; urges the Commission to initiate the debate on the necessary changes of the relevant EU legislation in this sense; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure in the meantime that the requirements of the animal transport regulation No 1/2005 are respected and violations of its provisions are dealt with by all appropriate means, including the infringement procedure;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas livestock farming is a key pillar in the sustainability of rural areas in the EU;
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to increase control checks and fully implement mandatory due diligence across the entire animal production and supply chain and, to conduct efficient and systematic inspections of animal consignments before loading, in order to halt practices that worsen animal welfare conditions for the transport by land or sea, such as allowing overstocked means of transport or unfit animals to continue long journeys, or permitting the continued use of control posts with inadequate facilities for resting, feeding and watering of animals in transport;
Amendment 141 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Considers that the systematic non- compliance with the European Court of Justice ruling requiring that EU animal welfare rules must apply throughout the transport of live animals also outside the EU, demonstrates that the current system is not apt for purpose; calls therefore on the Commission and the Member States to establish a ban on the transport of animals to third countries;
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Considers that the systematic non- compliance with the European Court of Justice ruling requiring that EU animal welfare rules must apply throughout the transport of live animals also outside the EU, demonstrates that the current system is not apt for purpose; calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish a ban on the transport of animals to third countries;
Amendment 143 #
3a. Welcomes the renewing of the mandate of the Platform on Animal Welfare by the European Commission; takes the view that exchanges of good practices should be further strengthened and that the experts of the Platform should be entitled to make recommendations for new legislation or revising existing ones where needed;
Amendment 144 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses the importance of moving forward with the Commission proposal for an integrated nutrient management action plan to address nutrient pollution at source and increase the sustainability of the livestock sector, as outlined in the Farm to Fork Strategy;
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Points out that livestock farms in the EU are real innovation hubs that incorporate scientific advances to constantly improve their infrastructure and practices, consolidating high animal welfare standards to respond to meet the increasing demands of consumers;
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses the need for better monitoring of maritime livestock transport, especially following the accidental blockage of the Suez Canal, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of animals on transport vessels;
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Considers extensification to be one of the quickest and most effective ways of improving on-farm animal welfare, as well as many other benefits for the environment, climate and human health;
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Reiterates the importance of taking account of the upcoming findings of the ANIT Committee of Inquiry; stresses the good work being done in the ANIT Committee of Inquiry;
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls for any legislative proposal to be preceded by an impact assessment covering the three levels of sustainability – environmental, economic and social;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas Article 13 TFEU provides that in formulating and implementing inter alia the Union's policies, the Union and the Member States are to pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals, since they are sentient beings, while respecting the legislative or administrative provisions and customs of the Member States;
Amendment 150 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Considers that long-distance journeys of live farm animals for the purpose of slaughter cannot be justified by any reason and should be prohibited;
Amendment 151 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Points out that developing regional abattoirs and authorising regional on- farm slaughter will enable long animal transports to be avoided and regional food supply structures to be strengthened;
Amendment 152 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Promoting the development of regional abattoirs and authorising on- farm slaughter will further improve the welfare of farm animals;
Amendment 153 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase control checks to monitor for antibiotics and other banned chemical residues found in imports from non-EU countries as part of the Commission’s strategy to effectively address the unregulated use of antibiotics and pesticides used in animal, seafood and aquaculture production; calls for short, local and regional supply chains and urges the Commission and the Member States to fully consider the CJEU ruling C-424/13 and to propose a complete phase out of the export of live animals to third countries by 2025; promoting alternatives to live animal transport, such as meat-and-carcass and genetic material transport for exports and intra-EU trade;
Amendment 154 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Reminds the Commission that the transport of meat and other animal products is technically easier and ethically more rational than the transport of live animals for the sole purpose of being slaughtered; reiterates its call on the Commission to develop a strategy to shift from live transport to a meat and- carcasses-only trade, given the environmental, animal welfare and food safety impact of live animal transport; considers it an imperative to transition to a completely regional model of livestock production;
Amendment 155 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Points out that animal welfare also extends to the need to transport the animals; stresses that in certain cases the conditions in which they are transported do not ensure sufficient dignity;
Amendment 156 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Points out that an arsenal of laws in this field (live animal transport) already exists but that these are not enforced;
Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new) 3d. Points out that transport by sea, particularly when animals are exported outside the European Union, causes livestock terrible distress; points out that the animals are cooped up in crowed pens with not enough room to move around and must cope with the ship’s motion, a lack of ventilation, unsuitable drinking fixtures and also poor hygiene conditions as a result of insufficient litter facilities;
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 e (new) 3e. Points out also that Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 of 22 December 2004 on the protection of animals during transport considers the time spent in transport by sea to be a rest period;
Amendment 159 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 f (new) 3f. Calls, therefore, on the Commission to recognise that transport by sea does not permit a genuine rest period for animals;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas Article 13 of the TFEU considers animals as sentient beings, thus capable of feeling pleasure and pain; therefore EU legislation must ensure that animals are kept in conditions that do not subject them to maltreatment, abuse, pain or suffering;
Amendment 160 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 g (new) 3g. Calls also on the Commission to prohibit or restrict drastically the transport of animals by sea because of the difficulty, if not indeed the impossibility, of allowing animals to rest during the time, which may last for several weeks, that they are being transported by sea;
Amendment 161 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 h (new) 3h. Calls, finally, on the Commission to draw up a blacklist of third countries where livestock is clearly ill-treated in order to prohibit the export of live animals to said countries;
Amendment 162 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Welcomes the fact that the common agricultural policy (CAP) seeks to enhance the welfare of on-farm animals by providing financial incentives and by focusing on the enforcement of animal welfare legislation;
Amendment 163 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Welcomes the fact that the common agricultural policy (CAP)
Amendment 164 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Welcomes the fact that the common agricultural policy (CAP) seeks to enhance the welfare of on-farm animals by providing financial incentives and by focusing on the enforcement of animal welfare legislation; however, as noted in the Commission’s evaluation of the latest Animal Welfare Strategy, Member States have neglected to take full advantage of these funds for animal welfare purposes, and millions of euros in EU rural development funds available for improving animal welfare are currently unused or poorly used, therefore calls on the Member States to offer greater and effective support to farmers who voluntarily comply with more stringent animal welfare requirements, including through national support programmes;
Amendment 165 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 166 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Welcomes the fact that the common agricultural policy (CAP) seeks to enhance the welfare of on-farm animals by providing financial incentives and by focusing on the enforcement of animal welfare legislation; calls on the Member States to offer greater and effective support to farmers who voluntarily comply with more stringent animal welfare requirements, including through national
Amendment 167 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Welcomes the fact that the common agricultural policy (CAP) seeks to enhance the welfare of on-farm animals by providing financial incentives and by focusing on the enforcement of animal welfare legislation; calls on the Member States to offer greater and effective support to farmers who voluntarily comply with more stringent animal welfare requirements, including through national support programmes; calls, therefore, for the financial incentives to come from funds other than those of the CAP;
Amendment 168 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 169 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Welcomes the fact that the common agricultural policy (CAP) seeks to enhance the welfare of on-farm animals by providing financial incentives and by focusing on the enforcement of animal welfare legislation; calls on the Member States to offer greater and effective support to farmers who voluntarily comply with more stringent and sustainable animal welfare requirements, including through national support programmes;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas a code adopted by Members of the Parliament of Wallonia that came into force on 1 January 2019 defines an animal as a sentient being, with feelings, emotions and even a certain level of consciousness;
Amendment 170 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Notes that fur production, which involves the confinement of thousands of undomesticated animals of a similar genotype in close proximity to one another under chronically stressful conditions can significantly compromise animal welfare and increases their susceptibility to infectious disease, as has occurred with COVID-19 in mink; urges the Commission and Member States to acknowledge the risks posed to public health and biodiversity by the continued existence of fur farming; calls for Member States, where the practice is still legal, to take legislative action to immediately phase-out fur production and for the Commission to ban the transport, import and export of live mink in the EU;
Amendment 171 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Draws attention to the fact that climate change, economic crises, the multiplication of predations affect more severely the alpine mountain farms; therefore invites the Commission to support farms characterized by traditional methods such as the use of high altitude pastures, transhumance, the use of the vegetation gradient and in any case the wild or semi-wild farming, removing all obstacles that today stand in the way of the best continuation of activities;
Amendment 172 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Regrets that most animal welfare support measures under the current CAP, as well as in the Commission suggestions for eco-schemes in the future CAP, do not target nor benefit more extensive grazing- based farms where animal welfare standards are generally higher; calls on the Commission and Member States to address this issue by increasing the animal welfare recognition and support provided to smaller and more extensive farms with well adapted interventions;
Amendment 173 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Reminds the Commission and the Member States that CAP funds and national envelopes should be appropriately directed to assist farmers in the transition to cage-free, high animal welfare, ecological farming methods with high quality training provided where required to ensure the welfare of the animals and the environmental and financial health that will help to ensure a resilient and sustainable economy;
Amendment 174 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Points out the progress and improvements – the latter on a voluntary basis – which some Member States have made at national level; welcomes particularly initiatives to reduce the use of antibiotics in poultry farming, increase calving intervals and guarantee species- appropriate, regular job opportunities;
Amendment 175 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls for the further promotion of activities that reduce the use of antimicrobials in the livestock sector, mitigating the risk of antimicrobial resistance and contributing to animal welfare;
Amendment 176 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Encourages a continuation of the policy of financial support for farmers as part of animal welfare improvement programmes;
Amendment 177 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Underlines the key role that the EU should play in supporting the development of agro-ecological and plant- based agricultural practices;
Amendment 178 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls on the Commission to ensure a focus on creating a resilient, uniformly- implemented animal welfare system through future legislative measures in all the Member States;
Amendment 179 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Stresses the importance of counteracting the reduction in the number of small mountain livestock farms, capable of effectively protecting the territory, through scientific and economic support;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union' (TFEU) recognises that animals are sentient beings;
Amendment 180 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Stresses that the market for animal products from cage-free, free range and organic systems, as well as the market for plant-based alternatives, is growing in the EU;
Amendment 181 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Calls for targeted support to be set up that prioritises maintaining or even raising the current productivity of the farmers concerned;
Amendment 182 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Draws attention to the fact that the increase in wolf predation is having a more severe impact on livestock farms in the Alpine mountains; calls on the Commission to consider the possibility of revising the classification of the species "canis lupus" within Community acts and directives with a view to its possible downgrading from a "strictly protected" to a "protected" species;
Amendment 183 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Points out that castration of piglets to prevent the appearance of disagreeable odours when the meat is cooked is painful for the animal and costly for breeders;
Amendment 184 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Calls, therefore, on Member States to prohibit castration of piglets;
Amendment 185 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 e (new) 4e. Calls also on the Commission to permit Member States to prohibit the import of products from pigs that have been castrated;
Amendment 186 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 f (new) 4f. Recalls that intensive fur farming of animals such as mink continues in Europe; recalls that the conditions in which fur animals are farmed and slaughtered are cruel; recalls also in this regard that overcrowding and a lack of hygiene on these farms facilitates the development of zoonoses or diseases, as occurred with COVID-19;
Amendment 187 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 g (new) 4g. Encourages Member States, therefore, to prohibit fur farming and the sale and import of products derived from these farms;
Amendment 188 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 h (new) 4h. Points out that intensive farming is harmful to the environment and cares very little about animal welfare; points out that factory farms increase the risk of epidemics linked to the concentration of animals; points out also that products from intensive farming only offer a very low health and nutritional quality for consumers; points out, finally, that intensive farming constitutes harmful competition for the family farm model that shapes our landscapes;
Amendment 189 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 i (new) 4i. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to turn their backs on this out-of-date model and promote instead small farms that care about animal welfare, the environment and consumers;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas farm animals were recognised by the Union as sentient beings;
Amendment 190 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 j (new) 4j. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to progressively ban caged and battery farming, in which 370 million animals are ill-treated every year in Europe; calls also in this regard on the Commission and the Member States to provide farmers using these farming methods with funding for alternative facilities;
Amendment 191 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 k (new) 4k. Points out the many advantages of mobile slaughterhouses, as they: – eliminate the need for animal transport, one factor for ill-treatment owing to the length of the journeys, cramped and crowded conditions, and temperatures that are sometimes too high or, alternatively, too low; – replace traditional slaughterhouses which are closing and hence lie further and further away from farms, increasing still more animal transport times; – eliminate the ill-treatment sometimes noted in traditional slaughterhouses, such as ritual slaughter without prior stunning; – eliminate the risk of spreading diseases, including COVID-19, unlike in industrial slaughterhouses; – eliminate stress for animals as the farmer is there with them;
Amendment 192 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 l (new) 4l. Calls, therefore, on the Commission to: – finance mobile slaughterhouses; – ensure the general public is better informed, for example by supporting labels established by local stakeholders;
Amendment 193 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 Amendment 194 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Points out that individual management practices often have a greater influence on animal welfare than rules alone; calls on the Commission to adopt a more output-oriented approach to future projects; recognises that the DG SANTE audits serve as an important source of information for the Commission to assess the implementation of the current framework; calls on the Commission to increase the number of independent, unannounced spot inspections by the Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) focused on animal welfare and the transport of animals; believes that differing methods of data collection and control mechanisms make it difficult to establish an accurate picture of compliance in individual Member States;
Amendment 195 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Points out that individual management practices often have a greater influence on animal welfare than rules alone;
Amendment 196 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Points out that individual management practices often have a greater influence on animal welfare than rules alone; calls on the Commission to adopt a
Amendment 197 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Points out that individual management practices often have a greater influence on animal welfare than rules alone; calls on the Commission to adopt a more output-oriented approach to future projects based on scientific evidence and knowledge;
Amendment 198 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Points out that targeted individual management practices often have a greater influence on animal welfare than rules alone; calls on the Commission to adopt a more output-oriented approach to future projects;
Amendment 199 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Points out that individual management practices often have a
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Citation 1 a (new) - having regard to the EU Action Plan against Antimicrobial Resistance;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the requirements under the animal welfare measure of the Rural Development Programmes are met by an increase of a crate size1a ; whereas the measure does not result in fulfilment of ethological needs of animals; _________________ 1ae.g. operation under M14 in the Slovak Rural Development programme increases the crate size by 15% from the 5.13 m2 to 5.9 m2 for a dairy cow.
Amendment 200 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Underlines the significance of the appropriate use of digitalisation; notes, however, that digitalisation tools cannot solve fundamental problems but should be a supplementary measure, given that they cannot replace qualified professionals;
Amendment 201 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the importance of regular exchanges with representatives of national authorities, civil society, agricultural stakeholder organisations and experts concerning examples of good practice and possible improvements in the area of animal welfare; points out that, despite its low cost, knowledge transfer in this area is highly efficient and should therefore be put into practice more quickly
Amendment 202 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the importance of regular exchanges with representatives of national authorities, agricultural stakeholder organisations and experts concerning examples of good practice and possible scientifically-sound improvements in the area of animal welfare; points out that, despite its low cost, knowledge transfer in this area is highly efficient and should therefore be put into practice more quickly; Considers that funds from the CAP and national envelopes should also be appropriately directed to assist farmers in the transition to cage-free, high welfare, ecological sound farming methods with high quality training provided where required to ensure the welfare of the animals and the environmental and financial health of the farm.
Amendment 203 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the importance of regular exchanges with representatives of national authorities, agricultural stakeholder organisations and experts concerning examples of good practice and possible improvements in the area of animal welfare; points out that, despite its low cost, knowledge transfer in this area is highly efficient and should therefore be put into practice more quickly; encourages the creation of a platform that would facilitate this knowledge transfer and that would help the parties involved to speed up and simplify their regular exchange process as well as store and secure their flows of information.
Amendment 204 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the importance of regular exchanges with representatives of national authorities, agricultural stakeholder organisations and experts concerning examples of good practice and possible improvements in the area of animal welfare; points out that, despite its low cost, knowledge transfer in this area is highly efficient and should therefore be put into practice more quickly; stresses the importance of holding such regular exchanges also with the representatives of third countries importing animals from Europe.
Amendment 205 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the importance of regular exchanges with representatives of national authorities, agricultural stakeholder organisations, non-governmental organisations, citizens and experts concerning examples and exchange of good practice and
Amendment 206 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the importance of regular exchanges with representatives of national authorities, agricultural stakeholder organisations, NGOs and experts concerning examples of good practice and possible improvements in the area of animal welfare; points out that, despite its low cost, knowledge transfer in this area is highly efficient and should therefore be put into practice more quickly.
Amendment 207 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the importance of regular exchanges with representatives of national and regional authorities, agricultural stakeholder organisations and experts concerning examples of good practice and possible improvements in the area of animal welfare; points out that, despite its low cost, knowledge transfer in this area is highly efficient and should therefore be put into practice more quickly.
Amendment 208 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Recommends that EU trade agreements should only grant trade preferences for animal-based products on the condition that they respect all EU relevant animal welfare standards, including standards currently not applied to imported products (“conditional liberalisation”); recommends that trade agreements allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of provisions on animal welfare cooperation and include an article on “Sustainable Agriculture, Seafood and Aquaculture” in the“Trade and Sustainable Development” Chapters; calls further on the Commission to ensure that all trade agreements are fully compatible with the European Green Deal, the Paris Agreement, the EU's biodiversity commitments and the SDGs, and that, in case of non-compliance, there should be binding and enforceable sanctions;
Amendment 209 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Stresses the need for urgent and bold policy and legislative change in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence of the unsustainability of the current food system and the higher costs of a failure to act, paying full regard to the welfare of farm animals, given that this is integral to food sustainability; recommends that it include measures to stimulate the adoption of higher animal welfare standards, a reduction of the amount of farm animals and stocking densities, and an increase of the production and consumption of plant-based products at the same time;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas animal welfare can be improved by increasing farm resilience, including increasing the genetic variability of animals on farms; whereas there is a worryingly low level of genetic diversity of farm animals in the EU;
Amendment 210 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Given the ethical dimension of animal welfare, considers it crucial that citizens are provided with clear, easily understandable and accessible information on the existing standards and compliance with animal welfare rules; calls on the Commission and Member states to promote awareness and engage in dialogue with citizens on issues of animal welfare;
Amendment 211 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Emphasises the importance of reconciling animal welfare, the environment, the climate and biodiversity; recalls that the grazing of natural areas in this connection is central to the preservation of natural assets; emphasises the importance of ensuring that animal welfare rules can go hand in hand with rules and frameworks for nature preservation.
Amendment 212 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Notes that measures that improve animal welfare are not per se beneficial for climate and environment; stresses that animal welfare should be seen as an integral part of sustainability; calls on the Commission to ensure that animal welfare legislation is coherent with environmental legislation.
Amendment 213 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Underlines the need to incentivize farmers and other relevant stakeholders to slaughter animals at the nearest facility to prevent lengthy animal transport times, reduce emissions and to prioritize the export of meat for long transport;
Amendment 214 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to assess subsidies that are harmful to animal welfare by 2022 and phase them out without delay;
Amendment 215 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Stresses the need to allow imports from third countries which comply with the same animal welfare standards as those in the EU;
Amendment 216 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls for the deployment of any EU action to be conditional upon prior consultation with the professionals concerned;
Amendment 217 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Calls on the Commission, in its bilateral trade negotiations with third countries, to ensure compliance with the EU’s animal welfare rules and defend sustainable development, within the framework of the World Trade Organisation's General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT ) 1994 and in particular, Article XX which lays down exceptions for measures connected to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources, and Article XXa that includes animal welfare under ‘reasons of public morality’; calls on the Commission, to promote similar measures in existing EU trade and investment agreements to ensure that imported animal, fish and aquaculture products have been produced in line with the EU environmental, social, food safety and animal welfare standards in order to ensure a fair and level playing field for EU producers;
Amendment 218 #
6b. Recalls that according to Article 13 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in formulating and implementing the Union's agriculture, fisheries, transport, internal market, research and technological development and space policies, the Union and the Member States shall, since animals are sentient beings, pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals, while respecting the legislative or administrative provisions and customs of the Member States relating in particular to religious rites, cultural traditions and regional heritage.
Amendment 219 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Stresses the need to swiftly move away from industrial animal farming by a significant reduction of the amount of animals kept in the EU, aiming at a 70% reduction in livestock numbers in the EU, with particular focus on Member States with high livestock density such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas livestock farming has a significant environmental impact in terms of both biodiversity and ecological balance;
Amendment 220 #
6b. Outlines the importance of smart livestock farming and the potential of digitalization for on-farm animal health and welfare monitoring; in this context, advanced digitalization technologies should help reducing physical contact with animals in order to enhance animal welfare and avoid disease outbreaks.
Amendment 221 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Recalls that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in a judgment of 17 December 2020 (Case C- 336/19) recognised the right of a Member State to require, in the context of ritual slaughter, ‘a reversible stunning procedure which cannot result in the animal’s death’;
Amendment 222 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Points out that farmers need adequate timeframes to improve their housing systems due to the large investments that are often required;
Amendment 223 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Urges the revision of Council Directive 98/58/EC concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes, which sets down generic rules that have proved difficult to implement and enforce; suggests therefore transposing this Directive into a Regulation, thereby creating the possibility of delivering delegated and implementing acts to set down welfare requirements for species for which no species-specific EU minimum standards presently exist, including dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, goats, turkeys, ducks, geese, rabbits, farmed fish and of all their offspring;
Amendment 224 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6c. Urges the revision of Council Directive 98/58/EC concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes, which sets down generic rules that have proved difficult to implement and enforce; suggests therefore transposing this Directive into a Regulation, thereby creating the possibility of delivering delegated and implementing acts to set down welfare requirements for species for which no species-specific EU minimum standards presently exist, including dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, goats, turkeys, ducks, geese, rabbits, farmed fish and of all their offspring;
Amendment 225 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6c. Calls, therefore, on Member States to bring in legislation prohibiting slaughter without prior stunning, as in addition to causing a slow and dreadful death, this causes contamination by the intestinal bacteria Escherichia Coli to increase;
Amendment 226 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6c. Underlines that, in addition to ensuring high animal welfare within the Union, the EU’s foreign and trade policy should also promote animal welfare globally as part of its green diplomacy, in relevant international bodies, and in bilateral and multilateral agreements;
Amendment 227 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6c. Stresses the importance of a level- playing field for farmers; calls on the Commission to harmonize animal welfare legislation between Member States where possible.
Amendment 228 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 d (new) 6d. Notes that broiler chickens are the most numerous terrestrial farmed animals in the EU, of which the vast majority coming from intensive farming systems, while their welfare is currently insufficiently guaranteed by the various pieces of EU legislation as they do not address the main problems that are intrinsic to this industry, such as the welfare problems of ever fast-growing broiler chickens;
Amendment 229 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 d (new) 6d. Points out that according to the Farm to Fork strategy, moving to a more plant-based diet with less red and processed meat and with more fruits and vegetables will reduce not only risks of life-threatening diseases, but also the environmental impact of the food system; considers that this could also help to improve animal welfare;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the health and economic crisis has cost farmers dear;
Amendment 230 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 d (new) 6d. Calls also on the Commission to permit Member States to prohibit the import of products from animals slaughtered in another Member State or in a third country without prior stunning;
Amendment 231 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 e (new) 6e. Urges the revision of Council Directive 2007/43 laying down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat production in order to reduce the maximum stocking density and reduce the sector’s dependency on antibiotics, drastically improve the poor welfare of chickens by providing them with natural light, fresh air, more space and enrichments and establishing a ban on the rearing of extremely fast-growing chickens; reiterates its call to accelerate a shift to alternative rearing systems that use higher welfare or traditional broiler breeds, which are more robust and healthy than fast-growing breeds, and to not allow any import products that do not meet EU standards;
Amendment 232 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 e (new) 6e. Points out that the Commission and Parliament consult the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on a regular basis in order for the Authority to present scientific reports linked to animal welfare;
Amendment 233 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 e (new) 6e. Underlines that most stakeholders agree that the animal welfare legislation was outdated and in need of revision;
Amendment 234 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 f (new) 6f. Notes, however, that many of the recommendations made by this Authority have not produced any action; notes thus that in the past 15 years various reports have concluded that the conditions in which rabbits, dairy cows, fish, cattle and sheep are farmed need to be regulated, without these recommendations giving rise to decision-making by the EU institutions.
Amendment 235 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 f (new) 6f. Points out that, according to studies, the General Directive and the Broilers Directive seems to have achieved only small impacts, and the Pigs Directive has also failed to achieve some of its objectives, as mutilations and cramped and stressful housing conditions without enrichment remain the norm for pigs in many Member States;
Amendment 236 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 f (new) 6f. Stresses that rabbits are the second most farmed species in the EU in terms of numbers of animals, with a majority of them reared in cages with inadequate welfare standards; calls in this regard on the Commission to propose specific EU legislation on minimum standards for the protection of farmed rabbits;
Amendment 237 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 g (new) 6g. Expresses concern about the fact that, with the exception of the Laying Hens and Calves directives, a combination of derogations, exceptions, vague requirements or the absence of specific protections in EU legislation have existed in parallel to various national legislations, all of which have been blamed by many stakeholders from different categories for distorting competition;
Amendment 238 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 g (new) 6g. Urges the revision of Council Directive 1999/74/EC laying down minimum standards for the protection of laying hens in order to rapidly phase-out and prohibit enriched battery cages and cage-free systems for all laying hens, to create a level-playing field and at the same time improve the welfare of animals kept in the EU;
Amendment 239 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 g (new) 6g. Calls on the Commission to take account of past and future reports on the welfare of farmed animals by the European Food Safety Authority;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas unhealthy diets, high in salt, sugar, fat and animal protein are a leading risk factor for disease and mortality in Europe; and at the same time antimicrobial resistance, hazardous pesticides and exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals via food and food packaging, are also increased threats to public health;
Amendment 240 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 h (new) 6h. Highlights that the General Directive has generally been the least impactful of the directives in scope, with the vague nature of the requirements and the large margins of interpretation it has allowed, links between improvements on the ground and the directive have been impossible to characterise; points out that the absence of species-specific protections for a number of species was seen by most stakeholders as a key problem for dairy cows, broiler and hen breeders, rabbits, sheep and turkeys;
Amendment 241 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 h (new) 6h. Disapproves the unethical and systematic killing of billions of male chicks in the EU every year, whether by using a shredding machine or carbon dioxide gas, as it is a violation of animal welfare law; emphasizes that France and Germany already announced a ban on the systematic killing of male chicks and urges the Commission and the Member States to follow this example;
Amendment 242 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 h (new) 6h. Welcomes initiatives opposing maceration of chicks; emphasises that approximately 300 million male chicks are killed every year in the European Union, at least 45 million of them in France;
Amendment 243 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 i (new) 6i. Calls for Council Directive 2008/120/EC laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs to be revised to inter alia remove the 28-day exemption for confining sows in individual stalls and to ensure that the animals are kept in group housing throughout the entire gestation period and farrowing;
Amendment 244 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 i (new) 6i. Considers that it is crucial that future policy coherence is ensured, with animal welfare requirements integrated into international trade policy, aquaculture policy, and the common agricultural policy (CAP);
Amendment 245 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 j (new) 6j. Highlights that legislation does not specify a number of requirements, such as how they should be complied with or monitored, and therefore leaves much discretion to Member States to specify numerous requirements and how they would assess them, which leaves room for different approaches and sometimes for subjectivity; stresses that this leads to inconsistent monitoring and enforcement across the EU; expresses concern on the level of official controls; highlights that according to the implementation study, sometimes and particularly for species which are not subject to specific regulations, there are no or very few official controls; considers that this should addressed in the revision of animal welfare legislation;
Amendment 246 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 j (new) 6j. Underlines that in the context of food safety, environment, climate action, animal welfare and equality between Member States, the Commission should ensure full enforcement of Directives, and urges the Commission that, in the event of violations by the Member States, it imposes strong sanctions, starting with the routine docking of piglet tails, which has been prohibited in the EU since 1991;
Amendment 247 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 k (new) 6k. Stresses that, although a large proportion of sheep and goats are reared in extensive farming conditions, such as on pastureland, significant concerns exist regarding animal welfare in intensive goat and sheep farming; underlines the alarming situation of male goat-kids that are treated as a waste product, as well as face problems such as mutilations, lameness, transport problems and illnesses caused by communicable diseases, and calls on the Commission to address these concerns in the upcoming revision of animal welfare legislation;
Amendment 248 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 k (new) 6k. Points out the need to ensure that there is sufficient data available on the implementation of the legislation;
Amendment 249 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 l (new) 6l. Is deeply concerned by the stable fires occurring in the EU that lead to the horrid death of animals and the release of toxic fumes; calls on the Commission and the Member States to tackle the problem of stable fires by promoting best practices and by introducing fire safety requirements, including preventive measures and mandatory sprinkler installations, measures which guarantee that animals can escape from their stables in the event of fire and a ban on air washing installations, as livestock barns do not only tend to be very prone to fire due to dust, straw and manure gases, but air washing installations, and their ventilation systems, are also flammable and rapidly spread the fire due to fanning;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas improving animal welfare reduces dependency on antimicrobials;
Amendment 250 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 m (new) 6m. Is of the opinion that animals should no longer be slaughtered in the EU according to methods that cause additional distress, such as the electrical water bath method stunning of poultry and CO2 stunning of pigs, and urges the Member States to ensure that all animals slaughtered in the EU are stunned prior to slaughter, without any exceptions, as confirmed by the European Court of Justice ruling in case C-336/19 of 17 December 2020 that Member States have the right to introduce mandatory pre- slaughter stunning;
Amendment 251 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 n (new) 6n. Reiterates its call on the Commission to revise Council Directive 98/58/EC concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes with the objective of ending the use of cages in EU animal farming by 2027; suggests therefore that the Commission continues cooperating with the Member States in order to support the implementation and proper enforcement of legal provisions for the phase-out of all cages in EU animal farming;
Amendment 252 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 o (new) Amendment 253 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 p (new) 6p. Emphasises the need to ensure that animal welfare does not suffer under new measures for the agricultural sector; stresses that no measures, targets, or incentives should lead to a restriction of livestock animals to indoor confinements; emphasises that animals must be able to graze and roam outdoors and should not be prevented from exhibiting their natural behaviour;
Amendment 254 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 q (new) 6q. Notes that large livestock farms with more than 50 livestock units account for about 70% of agricultural methane emissions, and 40% of total anthropogenic methane emissions in the EU; underlines that this makes mega livestock farms one of the biggest sources of methane emissions in the EU; emphasises that in addition to their methane emissions, mega livestock farms are extremely harmful for animal welfare, public health and the environment; stresses that this demonstrates an urgent need to swiftly phase out intensive animal agriculture in the EU, including a ban on the development of new mega livestock farms; calls on the Commission to put forward concrete and binding measures targeting the industrial livestock sector;
Amendment 255 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 r (new) 6r. Considers that sectors that have a major impact on environmental, climate and animal welfare issues should not be promoted by the EU and therefore calls on the Commission to cease funding promotion campaigns to support animal products;
Amendment 256 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 s (new) 6s. Recalls that 80 % of horsemeat sold in France, a figure of 9 000 tonnes in 2019, is imported and that with no proper labelling to inform consumers, they mainly eat horsemeat imported from South America; points out that some farms have been designated ‘fields of horror’ because of the ill-treatment that pervades there; stresses that without checks, these abuses ultimately arrive on European soil through EU distribution chains;
Amendment 257 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 t (new) 6t. Stresses that consumers’ interest in animal welfare practices on the farm, at slaughter and during transport has been growing in the EU over the last two decades; notes that according to a Eurobarometer survey carried out in2016, 52% of Europeans look for animal welfare labels when shopping, although one in ten Europeans does not know that these labels exist; highlights that 47% of Europeans think that choice of animal welfare-friendly food products in retail is limited;
Amendment 258 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 u (new) 6u. Stresses that the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that industrial farming practices, by keeping animals in close proximity to each other, pose a huge risk for the emergence of new pandemics;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas EU animal welfare legislation is currently not applicable to marine invertebrates, like crabs and lobsters; whereas several third countries have already included decapod crustaceans in their animal welfare legislation; whereas Switzerland has already implemented a ban on the practice of boiling lobsters alive;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas potential changes to European animal welfare legislation should be based on Article 13 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity and respect for Member States’ competences in this area;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas in Europe, the European Union began drawing up legislation on animal welfare following the adoption in 1976 of a general convention of the Council of Europe concerning all species of domestic animals;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas, according to the Farm to Fork Strategy, 10.3% of EU greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to agriculture, with almost 70% of agricultural emissions coming from the livestock sector;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas
Amendment 30 #
Ab. whereas animal welfare is directly related to animal health; whereas stressed animals are more prone to infections and since some diseases that can infect animals can pass to humans (zoonotic diseases);
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the spending under the EU and national budget on animal welfare should be cost-efficient and make a tangible improvement in the lives of animals concerned;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas The Lancet Infectious Diseases Commission has stressed that instead of relying on the routine use of antimicrobials, further effort is required to develop health-orientated systems for the rearing of animals; considers that good health should always be prioritised and integral to the system rather than being propped up by routine use of antimicrobials; whereas it is important to recognise the positive association between good animal welfare and reduced antibiotic use in animals that are well cared for and appropriately housed, are less prone to diseases and infections requiring less antibiotics and other veterinary medicines;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas a diet rich in plant-based foods and with fewer animal source foods confers both improved health and environmental benefits, and transformation to healthy diets by 2050 will require substantial dietary shifts, whereas global consumption of fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes will have to double, and consumption of foods such as red meat and sugar will have to be reduced by more than 50% in order to achieve dietary shifts towards less resource-intensive products (more plant based, less refined);
Amendment 34 #
Ac. whereas, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), promotes animal welfare through the ‘One Welfare’ approach recognising the close interlinkage between animal health and welfare and human health and welfare - if an animal is healthy, has enough space, is well nourished, feels safe, is free to express normal patterns of behaviour and does not suffer from feelings such as fear, pain and distress;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas the ‘One Health’ approach, recognises that human and animal health and environmental protection are interlinked and that diseases are transmissible from humans to animals and vice versa and should therefore be addressed together;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Recital A c (new) Ac. calls on the EU to adopt measures promoting reduction in the production and consumption of terrestrial and aquatic animal products in order to improve animal welfare and in order to help the EU meet its climate targets under the European Green Deal;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Recital A c (new) Ac. whereas hunting is a legal activity that is regulated perfectly by the Member States, with high standards with regard to ethics and protecting animal welfare;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Recital A d (new) Ad. whereas industrial livestock farming results in high greenhouse gas emissions, soil degradation, air pollution, water contamination and biodiversity loss, and agriculture is responsible for about 90% of EU ammonia emissions, which has significant negative effects on the environment and biodiversity, and is a major contributor to the air pollution that kills 400,000 European citizens each year;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Recital A d (new) Ad. whereas the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) "End the Cage Age", launched on 11 September 2018 and closed a year later, gained over 1.6 million signatures calling for a ban on cruel caged farming in the EU;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas livestock farming plays a prominent role in
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Recital A d (new) Ad. whereas the aim set out in the Farm to Fork Strategy is a 50% reduction in sales of antimicrobials for livestock and fish farms by 2030;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Recital A e (new) Ae. whereas there are conditions that humankind should provide animals with to ensure their welfare: • freedom from hunger, malnutrition and thirst: they must have access to water and an appropriate amount of food that meets the needs of their species; • freedom from fear and distress: the conditions in which they are reared must not cause them psychological suffering; • freedom from heat stress or physical discomfort: the animal must have a certain degree of physical comfort; • freedom from pain, injury and disease: the animal must not be hurt or injured through ill-treatment and it must receive treatment if it falls ill; • freedom to express normal patterns of behaviour: its environment must be a suitable one for its species;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Recital A e (new) Ae. whereas the Union animal welfare legislation (Council Directive 98/58/EC Council Directive1999/74/EC; Council Directive 2007/43/EC; Council Directive 2008/120/EC of 18 December 2008; Council Directive2008/119/EC; Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005; Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009) is widely acknowledged as being too vague, fragmented, open to interpretation and lacking effective enforcement across the Member States;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Recital A e (new) Ae. whereas every year, over 300 million farmed animals in the EU are caged for part or all of their lives, which is unnecessary and easily preventable suffering;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Recital A f (new) Af. whereas the European Court of Auditors identified significant gaps and a general lack of enforcement of EU animal welfare legislation and practices prohibited under EU law, such as the routine tail docking of pigs continue to be practiced; underlines that in the context of food safety, environment, climate action, animal welfare and equality between Member States, the Commission should ensure full implementation and enforcement of Directives, and that in the event of violations, Member States should impose strong sanctions, starting with the routine docking of piglet tails, which has been outlawed in the EU since 1991;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Recital A f (new) Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Recital A g (new) Ag. whereas in the EU nearly 120 million rabbits are commercially farmed, of which almost all of them are confined to cages for their entire lives; whereas in the EU over 350 million laying hens are commercially farmed, of which almost half of them are kept in overcrowded cages with no more space than an A4 sheet of paper; whereas in the EU around 11 million sows have to give birth and suckle their piglets in a cage; whereas in the EU at least 140 million quail are kept in cages in which they are unable to perform basic behaviour; whereas in the EU around 40 million ducks and geese are annually imprisoned in cages during their lives for the production of foie gras; whereas in the EU around 20 million dairy calves are born every year, of which more than half of these are kept in small, individual pens away from their mother;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Recital A g (new) Ag. whereas the EU Regulation on official controls requires Member States to audit their systems for official inspections on feed and food law and animal health and welfare, and Commission Decision 2006/677/EC sets out guidelines recommending that such audits are conducted at least every five years;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Recital A g (new) Ag. whereas unfair competition in the farming sector from outside of the EU is one of the indirect causes of the deterioration in animals’ living conditions caused by the drive for profitability;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas industrial livestock farming plays a prominent role in EU agriculture, a
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Recital A h (new) Ah. whereas it has been found that the General Directive has generally been less impactful than the species-specific Directives, due to the vague nature of the requirements and the large margins of interpretation it has allowed and the absence of species-specific protections for dairy cows, broiler and hen breeders, rabbits, sheep and turkeys;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Recital A h (new) Ah. whereas Thailand, Brazil and Ukraine, account altogether for 90 % of the imports from third countries that have all been subjected to audits by DG SANTE and that highlighted a large number of significant deficiencies in the production process and in observing EU legislation;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Recital A h (new) Ah. whereas when the Suez Canal was blocked by the cargo ship Ever Given this forced many vessels to wait out at sea for several days. Ships carrying live animals were among these vessels; whereas such a situation is unacceptable for animals;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Recital A i (new) Ai. whereas more than 2.8 million live cattle, sheep and goats were exported by sea from the EU Member States to countries in the Mediterranean region in 2018. This figure is made up of over 625 000 head of cattle and 2.2 million sheep and goats (56 % of them from Romania) that were shipped to countries such as Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, or Libya, according to an April 2020 report by the European Commission;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Recital A i (new) Ai. whereas moving away from intensive livestock farming practices towards sustainable, extensive agriculture will deliver an immense reduction in methane emissions from the agricultural sector while also providing benefits for the environment, biodiversity, animal welfare and public health; whereas drastically reducing the number of animals kept in the EU for agriculture is an essential step in this process;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Recital A i (new) Ai. whereas important changes in animal husbandry are required to reconcile the Union's animal welfare legislation with other EU policies such as the Farm to Fork and biodiversity strategies, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Recital A j (new) Aj. whereas EU farmers, as well as NGOs, have expressed concerns over the economic, social and environmental impacts of imports of cheaply produced chicken meat and misleading labelling of chicken meat processed in the European Union, but originating from third countries; whereas unfair competition and a failure to comply with EU standards places European businesses at a competitive disadvantage;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Recital A j (new) Aj. whereas adapting our diets and drastically reducing the production and consumption of animals while developing alternative protein sources to substitute meat, dairy and other animal products is a cost-effective, quick, healthy and easy measure to fight methane-induced climate change and will realise countless co- benefits for human, animal and ecosystem health and welfare;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Recital A k (new) Ak. whereas in 2016, the Directorate- General for Health and Food Safety consulted EU citizens to gather their opinions on animal welfare within the EU; whereas, too, 94 % of the EU citizens questioned were of the view that protecting the welfare of farm livestock is important; whereas, finally, 82 % of EU citizens were of the view that the welfare of farm livestock should be better protected than it is at present;
Amendment 59 #
Ak. whereas the special 2016 Eurobarometer on animal welfare showed that 94% of EU citizens believe that welfare of farm animals is important, 82% think farm animals should be better protected and 59% are willing to pay 5% more for animal- friendly products;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas livestock farming plays a
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Recital A k (new) Ak. whereas there are grave concerns regarding the poor welfare, high stress levels, high mortality and morbidity of farm rabbits in Europe, as already concluded by EFSA in 2005; whereas the detrimental effects on the welfare of farm rabbits are often the result of poor housing systems and cages;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Recital A l (new) Al. whereas the agricultural subsidies to promote agricultural products inside and outside the EU drastically increased the past years, namely to 142,5 million euros in 2017, 188.5 million euros in 2018 and 200 million euros in 2020;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Recital A m (new) Am. whereas animals should no longer be adapted to the system, but the system should be adapted to the animals’ needs and behaviour instead, meaning that it should not be allowed to hurt an animal, cause injury to an animal or harm the health or welfare of an animal with the aim of housing the animal in a certain way;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Recital A m (new) Am. whereas in recent decades, European food and farming have become heavily unbalanced and unsustainable in favour of industrial agricultural systems and intensive livestock farming;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Recital A m (new) Am. whereas industrial animal farming is incompatible with animal welfare due to extreme suffering as well as cruel practices experienced by animals;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Recital A m (new) Am. whereas animal farming is one of the main sources of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for 14.5% of the total according to FAO;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Recital A m (new) Am. whereas the spread of zoonotic diseases such as avian and swine flu, or Salmonella, and air pollution from ammonia emissions (90% of which comes from farming, according to the European Environment Agency) are major public health risks linked to intensive animal farming;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Recital A m (new) Am. whereas a sustainable and more organic diet will accelerate the achievement of the Green Deal objectives while protecting our climate and environment, people’s health, farmers’ livelihoods and farm animal welfare, both in Europe and worldwide;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission’s efforts to consolidate legislation on animal welfare and animal health and ensure that the requirements are clear and fit to protect all farmed animals during rearing, transport and slaughter; stresses that these requirements must be applied correctly and uniformly throughout the EU and that regular and comprehensive checks must be carried out, and EU-harmonised sanction systems put forward; welcomes the Commission’s planned revision of legislation in this area in 2023 in keeping with the objectives of the Farm to Fork Strategy, by reversing intensification in animal production and significantly reducing the stress at the time of transport, slaughter as well as during culling operations;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission’s
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas traditional extensive livestock farming plays a prominent role in EU agriculture, as it is not only economically
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission’s efforts to consolidate legislation on animal welfare and animal health and ensure that the requirements are clear; stresses that
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission’s
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 73 #
1. Welcomes the Commission’s efforts to consolidate and optimize legislation on animal welfare and animal health, without delay, and ensure that the requirements are clear and well-defined; stresses that these requirements must be applied correctly and uniformly throughout the EU and that regular and comprehensive checks must be carried out in line with the applicable legislation; welcomes the Commission’s planned revision of legislation in this area in 2023 in keeping with the objectives of the Farm to Fork Strategy, particularly as on-farm animal welfare is recognised in the Strategy as being central to contribute at reducing reliance on the excessive use of veterinary medications, at protecting human health and at helping preserve biodiversity;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission’s efforts to consolidate legislation on animal welfare and animal health and ensure that the requirements are clear; stresses that these requirements must be applied correctly and uniformly throughout the EU and that regular and comprehensive checks must be carried out; welcomes the Commission’s planned revision of legislation in this area in 2023 in keeping with the objectives of the Farm to Fork Strategy; points out that changes to legislation must be made gradually, be based on science and provide the financial support necessary to ensure that farms can be transformed without putting their survival at risk;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission’s efforts to consolidate legislation on animal welfare and animal health and to ensure that
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Deeply regrets that a number of issues related to Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 are yet to be resolved, including: overcrowding; insufficient headroom; failure to provide the required rest stops, food and water; inadequate ventilation and watering devices; transport in extreme heat; transport of unfit animals; transport of unweaned calves; the need to ascertain the pregnancy status of live animals; the extent to which the journey logs are checked; the ‘mixed’ impact of training, education and certification; and insufficient bedding, as identified by the European Court of Auditors in its Special Report No 31/2018;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Recalls that the COVID 19 pandemic has showed the interconnection between the health of humans, animals and the environment as evidenced notably by the case of animals bred for their fur; insists on the need to improve animal health in animal agriculture as part of the One Health approach ; calls on the European Commission to also develop the One Welfare approach as part of the revision of the legislation on animal welfare;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Draws the attention to the fact that, in line with the concept of One Health, animal welfare is many ways related to human health, for instance in terms of zoonotic spread risk or in terms of animal product consumption;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses that consistently applying the One Health Principle can improve on- farm animal welfare;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas livestock farming plays a prominent role in EU agriculture, as it is not only economically and environmentally,
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. With a view to the One Health approach, welcomes the Commission’s goal to halve sales of antimicrobials for farmed animals and in aquaculture by 2030; points to the fact that to achieve this goal, improved animal husbandry practices are essential, as better animal welfare improves animal health, thus reducing the need for medication;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that the EU Directives on on-farm animal welfare are found to be outdated, often inadequate, too vague, lacking specific protections and providing exceptions or derogations to requirements, resulting into a number of undesirable practices violating the welfare of animals that have continued to be allowed;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Rejects the disinformation campaigns and false data that regularly besmirch the reputation of the European livestock sector; calls for recognition of the efforts and investments that European livestock farmers have made over the last decade to raise animal welfare standards in European production;
Amendment 83 #
1a. Acknowledges the importance of the Commission external study on animal welfare labelling foreseen to start first half of 2021; in this regard, calls on the Commission to assess a reliable traceability mechanism of animals and animal products to apply also to animal source foods from non-EU countries;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Points out that the Member States should be able to prohibit the sale of products within their territory that they consider to be injurious to animal welfare, even if said products are authorised in other Member States;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Notes that 70 billion farm animals are kept worldwide and transported globally on an ever-increasing scale, and that the industrial livestock system, by concentrating large amounts of fragile and stressed animals in confined spaces, is one of the major risk factors of the outbreak and the spreading of zoonoses and poses therefore great danger to public health; is therefore of the opinion that the EU needs to swift away from the continued intensification of the livestock production to regional and small-scale food production;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Notes that billions of farm animals transported globally on an increasing scale, and in Europe, there are millions of farmed animals caged for part or all of their lives are restricted to small confined spaces making it impossible for those animals to exhibit their natural behaviours; reiterates that the current industrial livestock model that confines thousands of animals into confined spaces, is a major contributing factor to zoonoses; in that regard, considers that the EU needs to move away from the intensification of livestock production towards a more extensive model that priorities the animals health and welfare instead of relying on the routine use of antimicrobials or other hazardous chemicals;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Reiterates the need to regulate specific species that currently remain unprotected by EU animal welfare legislation; respondents underlined the importance of introducing species-specific legislation: for dairy cattle; laying hens, breeders and broilers, beef cattle, pullets, turkeys, ducks geese, farmed rabbits; farmed fish; sheep and goats; calls on Commission to bring forward proposals in that regard;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Takes note of the citizens' initiative "End the Cage Age" and calls for the revision of Directive 98/58 which would provide for a phasing out of cage farming systems as soon as possible as well as adequate measures to support farmers in this transition and ensure a fair level playing field;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Supports the ECI “End the Cage Age” and urges the Commission to start a legislative process to ban caged farming;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas, as significant developments in animal welfare science have taken place since the existing EU farm animal welfare legislation was adopted, it is vital to revise and augment the existing body of animal welfare legislation to bring it into line with the latest scientific advancements and to respond to societal demands for improvement of the welfare of animals and the elimination of outdated livestock housing systems and other production practices that negatively impact their welfare;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Demands that EU trade policy take into account the significant differences between European animal welfare standards and those of third countries, in order to prevent unfair competition from imported products without the minimum animal welfare guarantees;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Regrets that after having banned certain practices within its territory on animal welfare grounds, a Member State can be forced to accept in the name of the single market the marketing of foreign products that contravene this ban;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Stresses that legislation relating to the welfare of farm animals must be species specific and should be compatible with scientific data relating to animal sensitivity and be updated as scientific knowledge evolves;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Calls on the Commission to make animal welfare a ground permitting derogation from the single market, as is the case for health, environment or consumer protection;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Regrets the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 1 October 2020 in which the Court prevented the imposition by Member States of a mandatory label mentioning the geographical origin of milk; recalls that the mention of the geographic origin is conducive to better informing consumers and improving animal welfare, while ensuring farmers a better remuneration;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Notes that large scale industrial fish farming and aquaculture in particular relies heavily on the use of antibiotics to combat infectious diseases as edwardsiellosis, streptococcosis and acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease, which tend to increase with warmer temperatures and threaten food security;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new) 1e. Calls therefore on the Commission to put forward an amendment to Regulation No 1169/2011, and its Articles 26, 38 and 39 in particular, in order to permit Member States to impose labelling mentioning the geographical origin of all foodstuffs;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the Council’s
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the Council’s efforts to
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