The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy advocates for animals at EU and national levels, and we provide expert research, training, public affairs, and monitoring services to nonprofits and public administrations to help them achieve better treatment for animals.
Our mission is to guide all parties involved in animal-related rule-making, whether in legislation and regulations, private standards, or non-written common industry practices.
Our expertise focuses on non-human animals used for all types of exploitative purposes: food and fiber, entertainment, science, and companionship, as well as wild animals, which are increasingly harvested as commodities.
The Institute nurtures non-violent solutions that alleviate suffering and exploitation. We also support the development of animal law as an autonomous legal and academic discipline.
The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy provides advocacy organization with the highest-quality service to bolster the animal protection movement in Europe and beyond.
The Institute provides top-notch legal research services in French and English, under the form of hourly consultations and weekly to monthly research projects.
Deliverables are tailored to our partners’ needs. Formats include memoranda, reports, white papers, and oral presentation.
The Institute provides strategic expertise to assist partners in implementing legal and regulatory reforms.
We identify upcoming reform opportunities and map out relevant actors (“stakeholders”) whose actions can affect lawmaking. We then connect our partners to our vast network of professionals within the industry and the EU institutions.
The Institute also advises partners in building advocacy pleas and pitching them to stakeholders.
The Institute’s core mission is to empower its partners through training and education. Training solutions are custom-made, for all levels and all group sizes.
Available courses include animal law and European law classes for all levels, as well as practical sessions that would teach professionals how to navigate the EU institutions and its law-making process.
Our goal is to make our partners more performant in their daily work in the short term, and fully autonomous in the longer term.
We provide monitoring services to EU Public Affairs professionals under the form of a newsletter.
Our targeted updates include ongoing and prospective public consultations, court rulings (European Court of Justice, European Court of Human Rights, and national courts when relevant to EU law), scientific publications, industry and NGO campaigns, and calls for contributions to publications or events.
Olga Kikou (Director of Advocacy) was quoted in this piece by the Brussels Times on the European Commission work program for agriculture and food, highlighting the lack of ambition of the Commission regarding animal protection and food transition.
In the European Commission’s Vision for Agriculture and Food, we see little that gives us confidence that things will change for animals. Is it simply a band-aid on a broken bone—covering up the issues without addressing the deeper, structural problems that need real transformation?
On February 21st, Alice Di Concetto (Chief Legal Advisor) will present at the French Senate during a conference celebrating the 10th year anniversary of the recognition of animal sentience in French civil law.
