European Union - Animal welfare: step up inspections and penalties to ensure compliance
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25-Mar-2010 (16 years 2 months 14 days ago)EU animal welfare rules must be more rigorously enforced, with more inspections and effective penalties, said the Agriculture Committee. It nonetheless welcomed a reduction in harmful antibiotics in animal feed, further to an EU ban.
The EU's 2006-2010 animal welfare action plan has not been unsatisfactorily implemented and existing rules should be better enforced before drawing up new ones, said the Agriculture Committee, which nonetheless called on the European Commission to propose without delay an action plan for 2011-2015, based on the results of the previous one, with adequate resources to implement it.
The EU's 2006-2010 animal welfare action plan has not been unsatisfactorily implemented and existing rules should be better enforced before drawing up new ones, said the Agriculture Committee, which nonetheless called on the European Commission to propose without delay an action plan for 2011-2015, based on the results of the previous one, with adequate resources to implement it.