Discipline: Ethics

Animal health and welfare framework: implementation plan 2022 to 2024

The Wales Animal Health and Welfare Framework Group

Published in 2022

Implementation programme for the final two years of the 10-year Welsh Action Plan launched in 2014.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Keywords: Societal issues

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Is ongoing ritual slaughter of livestock justifiable in modern America?

Sean Leffert

Published in 2021

Scientific review of the arguments for and against the ritual slaughter of farm animals, authored by an abattoir veterinary inspector.

Document Types: Scientific review

Category of animals: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines

Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Stress

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Code rural et de la pêche maritime – Partie législative : Livre II, Titre Ier, Chapitre IV, Section 2 sur les dispositions relatives aux animaux de compagnie

French Government

Published in 1976

Dispositions relatives à la protection des animaux de compagnie

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Canines, Felines, Exotic pets

Keywords:Enrichment, Housing, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Welfare indicators

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Arrêté du 25 octobre 1982 relatif à l’élevage, à la garde et à la détention des animaux, Annexes

French Government

Published in 2000

Réglementation protection animale des animaux présentés en concours, expositions et lieux de vente d’animaux

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Keywords:Pain, Societal issues, Living environment, Fear, Human-animal relationships, Stress

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Arrêté du 3 avril 2014 fixant les règles sanitaires et de protection animale auxquelles doivent satisfaire les activités liées aux animaux de compagnie d’espèces domestiques relevant des articles L. 214-6-1, L. 214-6-2 et L. 214-6-3 du code rural et de la pêche maritime

French Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2014

Order laying down the animal health and protection rules that must be met in activities involving companion animals from domestic species

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Canines, Felines

Keywords:Enrichment, Housing, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Welfare indicators

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European Parliament: Written answer to Question E-004518/2021: New Italian 'animal welfare' certification and labelling system

Question: Eleonora Evi (Greens/EFA). Answer: Ms Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission

Published in 2021

Answer to a question on the relevance of the new Italian "animal welfare national quality system" .

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Keywords: Societal issues, Welfare indicators

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L’agriculture bio garantit-elle un meilleur « bien-être » des animaux d’élevage ?

Eugénie Duval, Benjamin Lecorps

Published in 2021

Article demonstrating that the French organic label guarantees higher animal welfare standards than conventional farming, providing access to outdoors, banning cage rearing and tethered systems, allowing only exceptional authorisation of non-medical surgical interventions, and requiring more frequent checks and compulsory stunning before slaughter. However, the legislation on transport and slaughter is still inadequate, even in the case of organic farming.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords: Housing, Living environment, Mutilation, Livestock farming system, Transport,Societal issues

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LOI n° 2021-1539 du 30 novembre 2021 visant à lutter contre la maltraitance animale et conforter le lien entre les animaux et les hommes

President of the Republic

Published in 2021

Full text of the Animal Abuse Control Act passed on 30 November 2021.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Keywords:Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress

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Instruction technique DGAL/SDSanimal welfare/2021-900 – Plan de soutien à l’accueil des animaux abandonnés et en fin de vie – volet B (mesure 4 – Axe 2 « Agriculture, alimentation, forêt » du plan de relance)

French Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2021

Technical advisory note specifying the practical procedures for opening local calls for projects and for examining the applications received in light of the renewed funding of measure 4B of the French recovery plan "support for local projects run by animal protection associations".

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Keywords:Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress

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Animal welfare: a shift from live to meat-and-carcass transport

Gediminas Vilkas

Published in 2021

Press release presenting the results of the European Parliament's Committee of Inquiry into the protection of animals during transport. The committee recognised that EU rules on the protection of animals during transport are not always respected and that the welfare needs of animals during transport are not always met. It recommends limiting and better monitoring the export of live animals, developing meat-and-carcass transport and banning the transport of very young animals.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Transport

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