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 Euractiv about the proposal for a new regulation on the transport of animals. Olga cautioned against the use of vague wording that might undermine animal protection goals.
Alice Di Concetto (Chief Legal Adviser) will present on animals and business law at a roundtable on Animals and Law & Economics, at the annual conference of the French Association for Law and Economics, in Paris. The conference will take place in Paris. All presentations will be in English.
Gabriela Kubíková, Ph.D (Policy Adviser) published her first book on the welfare of farmed animals in EU law with Wolters Kluwer, in Czech (Dobré životní podmínky hospodářských zvířat v právu Evropské unie).
