The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy advocates for animals at EU and national levels. We also work with other 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 advocates for animals by employing a wide variety of evidence-based and effective methods.
The Institute's work is based on top-notch legal research.
We also offer these services in French and English, under the form of hourly consultations and weekly to monthly research projects.
The Institute relies on strategic expertise to achieve legal and regulatory reforms for animals.
The Institute also works with partners to assist them with their advocacy needs.
The Institute’s core mission is to empower its partners through training and education.
Our goal is to make animal protection organizations aware of how central the EU institutions are in shaping laws and regulations affecting the treatment of animals, and increase the animal protection movement's effectiveness and impact in the EU.
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.
In her latest paper, our Legislative Advocacy Manager, Gabriela Kubíková, examines the legislation governing the welfare of chickens. She stresses the need for a more evidence-based approach to animal welfare law and policy, emphasizing the necessity of revising the current legislative standards – as well as entirely re-thinking the broader food system in which these and billions of other animals are exploited.
A paper co-authored by our Junior Researcher, Gladys Le Goff, with the Stockholm Environment Institute and Leiden University claims that industrial insect farming may not be the climate and animal welfare solution it is often portrayed to be. Greenhouse gas emissions generated from insect production can approach those of chicken and pork, and plant-based and cultivated proteins are more promising alternatives that should not be neglected or under-explored at the expense of investment in insect farming.
Alice Di Concetto will speak about regulatory alignment between Ukrainian and EU animal welfare law at the Ukrainian Veterinary Medicine Fund Congress in June.
