More protection for animals in Europe. And at 360 degrees. The ENVI Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Commission approved with 33 votes in favor, 16 against and 11 abstentions a report asking the European Commission to strengthen the EU strategy for the protection and welfare of animals 2012-2015. Andrea Zanoni, MEP and vice president of the Animal Welfare intergroup in the European Parliament, made it known with two notes published on social networks.
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More protection for animals in Europe. And at 360 degrees. The ENVI Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Commission yesterday approved a report asking the European Commission to strengthen the EU strategy for the protection and welfare of animals 2012-2015. Andrea Zanoni, MEP and vice president of the Animal Welfare intergroup in the European Parliament, made it known with two notes published on social networks.
Among the salient points of the MP's report Kartika Tamara Liotard (Dutch, Nordic Left) we find sustainable farms, maximum limit of eight hours for the transport of live animals, no to the cloning of livestock, no to the mistreatment of live calls for hunting, greater protection for stray cats and dogs e stop vivisection. “The member states of the EU ratify the European Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals - reads the report - on the European Union strategy for the protection and welfare of animals 2012-2015 “.
In particular, an amendment presented by Zanoni himself and approved by the commission “believes that the European framework law on animal welfare should address the issue of stray animals which appears particularly severe in southern and eastern EU countries, through the implementation of effective sterilization measures ". The case of the Spanish perreras, the Romanian dog-killing law and the massacre of stray dogs and cats in Ukraine (a non-EU country that together with Poland will host the Euro 2012 European football championships) are under accusation.
"Unfortunately my proposal to ban killing has not passed"Of strays" and to introduce a compulsory system of registration and application of microchips, according to when requested, among other things, in the written declaration 26/2011, approved on 13 October 2011 ", explains the MEP on his facebook page. But, fortunately, others have passed which have reinforced the salient points of the report and introduced new safeguards. Let's see what it is in detail:
- Live calls for illegal hunting. "The European law on animal welfare must solve the problem of the possession of wild birds, captured or raised, used as live calls in the hunting of migratory birds, in conditions incompatible with their nature".
- Eight hour limit for live animal transport. The report calls for “the revision of regulation no. 1/2005 as required by the written declaration 49/2011 adopted on March 15, 2011 and by more than 1.100.000 signatories of the petition relating to the limit of 8 hours “.
- It protects dogs and cats and no more violence against strays. Another amendment by Zanoni draws attention to the fact that "the European framework law on animal welfare must address the issue of stray animals, which appears particularly serious in the southern and eastern EU countries through the implementation of effective sterilization measures ". Furthermore, it "calls on the European Union and the Member States to ratify the European Convention for the protection of companion animals".
- More control in zoos. Zanoni invites the European Commission and the Member States "to take all necessary measures to inform interested parties about the requirements relating to the maintenance of wild animal species in captivity". Furthermore, it "calls for the urgent and complete application of the directive on zoos and the guarantee that the staff responsible for monitoring its implementation and the veterinarians of the zoos".
- No farms and GM products. The report calls for "a legislative proposal introducing a ban on the cloning and marketing of products derived from clones and their offspring".
- Enough vivisection. The invitation to the European Commission to adopt "an EU-wide strategy for the development and use of alternative methods to animal testing, within the framework of the revision of EU legislation and new technologies" was revealed.
"Today in the ENVI committee we have put pen to paper the guidelines that we hope that first the agriculture committee of the Parliament, then the Parliament as a whole and finally the European Commission will want to follow ensure a real and effective protection of animals throughout Europe and the end of barbaric practices that we still see today such as vivisection, the transport of animals in miserable conditions, the massacres of stray dogs and cats and the use of live calls for hunting“, Commented the MEP. Now the hope is that these guidelines will be followed by a clear commitment by the European institutions, so that the principle enshrined in Article 13 of the Lisbon Treaty, which defines animals as sentient beings, finally becomes a reality.
Roberta Ragni
