Document type : Bill presented to the Senate
Authors: Esther Benbassa, Joël Labbé, Daniel Salmon, Guy Benarroche, Hélène Conway-Mouret, Michel Dagbert, Ronan Dantec, Gilbert-Luc Devinaz, Nassimah Dindar, Thomas Dossus, Jacques Fernique, Martine Filleul, Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam, Joël Guerriau, Guillaume Gontard, André Guiol Jean-Michel Houllegatte, Victoire Jasmin, M. Bernard Jomier, Gisèle Jourda, Claudine Lepage, Monique De Marco, Michelle Meunier, M. Paul Toussaint Parigi, Evelyne Perrot, Raymonde Poncet Monge, Angèle Préville, Laurence Rossignol, Sophie Taillé-Polian, Rachid Temal, André Vallini
Preview: The purpose of this Bill is to establish a form of ethical, remunerative and socially-just livestock farming that is mindful of animal welfare. Article 1 of the proposed legislation aims to change the way livestock is farmed by making the gradual introduction of outdoor facilities for livestock and maximum density thresholds compulsory for livestock farms from 2025 onwards. The stakeholders concerned will be allowed until 2040 to meet these requirements, leaving them time to change their organisational practices. The access available to outdoor space will take into account the animal's age and particular geographical or climatic circumstances, those of mountain farms for example. Article 2 limits the duration of animal transport to eight hours within France and its territories.
The purpose of Article 3 is to ban the maceration of live male chicks and female ducklings from 2023 onwards, allowing existing alternative techniques to be deployed, in particular the sexing of eggs. Article 4 consequently provides for a transitional support fund to be created to assist businesses, in particular farmers, who need financial help to carry out the transformation of their activities that will be needed to comply with the new legal framework established by this law. This fund, the terms of which will be defined by decree, must be employed in particular to pay for local slaughtering facilities and the transformation of farming systems.
