Published in 2024
Article summarising the benefits and potential of precision monitoring technologies (wearable sensors, video observation and smartphones) to increase production and improve welfare in livestock farming.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Precision farming
Published in 2024
Audit report on the system implemented by the Greek goverment to ensure compliance with regulations protecting animals being transported to the abattoir. While it recognizes improvements, it concludes that the measures implemented by the competent authorities are not yet fully compliant with the five points of the 2009 ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union. It contains eight recommendations to the competent authorities to remedy the shortcomings identified.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Pigs
Keywords: Transport
Published in 2023
Scientific article developing a method that uses information from experts to quantify the perceived impact of sub-optimal mobility on the welfare of dairy cows. The wider objective is to quantify the impact of health disorders on animal welfare, and to detect and treat these disorders as early as possible in order to improve animal welfare.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Pain, Living environment, Modelling, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2023
Answer to a question on whether the French Government plans to pursue the legislative changes initiated by the Law of November 30, 2021 by prohibiting the exploitation of domestic animals in traveling shows.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Dogs, Goats, Equines, Birds (excluding poultry)
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress
Published in 2023
DG SANTE audit report concluding that Ireland has invested significant resources in official controls for calf welfare during transport, although there are still some weakness, on which it offers recommendations.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Stress, Transport
Published in 2023
Answer to a question concerning the measures taken to control the conditions under which animals are transported over long distances and those that France intends to put forward to improve these conditions when the European regulation on the subject undegoes revision.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Primates, Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Stress, Transport
Published in 2023
Update of a guide originally published in 2012 by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on the laws and regulations protecting farm animals at shows and markets, with particular reference to compliance rules for pens, cages and hutches.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Animal trade, Housing, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Societal issues
Published in 2023
Technical report summarizing the activities of EFSA's network subgroups on animal welfare as presented at their 2023 annual meeting, including the progress of EFSA's ongoing welfare mandates along with two new mandates, on dog and cat welfare, and on use of diathermic syncope for cattle stunning. Discussions took place on various subjects, including hypertypes and genetic diseases in dogs, the need for stunning before the killing of decapods, the assessment of welfare at pasture, and population reduction methods in the event of an avian flu crisis.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Cattle, Dogs, Goats, Equines, Felines, Molluscs, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry
Keywords:All subjects
Published in 2023
News article setting out the particular welfare needs of fish during transport, and analyzing the parts of the proposed revisions to the European regulations on animal welfare during transport that specifically address fish welfare.
Document Types: Technical review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Fish, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Transportation
Published in 2023
Answer to a question concerning the position of the French Ministry of Agriculture on the possibility of parliamentary visits to abbatoirs, livestock farms and other facilities where livestock is kept.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress
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