This White Paper advocates for a complete change in the way EU animal welfare legislation is discussed, drafted, and implemented; and offers solutions to address the particular issues posed by low-quality legal drafting and the over- complicated procedures to amend secondary and tertiary legislation.
In this report, you will find:
– An overview of the evolution of EU farm animal welfare laws over the past five decades
– Detailed explanations on the role played by the different actors and institutions other than the Legislature in shaping these laws, such as the European Food Safety Authority or the European Court of Justice.
– Factsheets summarizing the different rules in each of the farm animal welfare laws.
– Factsheets detailing the different shortcomings that can be found in these acts, followed by a list of recommendations on how to redress such shortcomings in the course of the next revision.
Alice Di Concetto (Executive Director and Chief Legal Adviser) authored a chapter on EU Animal Law in the newly-published book “Nordic Animal Law: Welfare and Rights” (Ethics Press, 2024). This book provides an overview of animal protection laws in the Nordic countries, and is now available for purchase (hardcopies and e-book).
Olga Kikou (Director of Advocacy) was quoted in this piece by ENDS Europe on the European Commission’s Report of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture.
The European Commission’s special advisory group on agriculture has pushed for further delays in the revision of the EU animal welfare laws in their new report, published today, 4 September 2024. This jeopardizes the EU’s ambitions to update the current legislation.
