Published in 2023
Answer to a question on how the European Commission plans to tackle the illegal pet trade, including the creation of a European task force to combat the illegal cross-border trade in animals.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Canines, Felines
Keywords:Animal trade, Societal issues
Published in 2023
Answer to a question on whether the European Commission has assessed the feasibility of requiring microchip identification for dogs and cats from commercial breeders, and of setting up an official database for compulsory identification and registration before they leave the breeding establishments.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Canines, Felines
Keywords:Animal trade, Population management, Identification, Societal issues
Published in 2022
Scientific article using modelling to assess production losses due to heat stress in two different greenhouse gas emission scenarios. Depending on emission levels, economic losses vary between 9.8% and 3 to 7% of the value of beef and milk production worldwide in 2005. These results underline the importance of putting adaptation measures place in to combat heat stress if we are to ensure global food security.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to environment, Environment, Living environment, One Welfare, Robustness, Stress, Societal issues
Published in 2023
Scientific review highlighting the fact that the usual animal welfare paradigms do not apply to animals in zoos, particularly when the animals are undergoing veterinary treatment. In such circumstances, the animals' physiology and behavior are deregulated, and freedom of choice and comfort are limited. The authors propose that a distinction should be made between the state of well-being experienced by the animal (well-being) and the societal management of animal welfare (welfare), and to base the wefare management of zoo and aquarium animals on preventive medicine.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Wildlife, Fish
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Living environment, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2023
Systematic literature review identifying the behavioral and yield parameters of cows that are the best indicators of lameness and calculating the changes in them during lameness episodes. They include time taken to feed, number of lying periods, time taken to lie down, time spent lying down, and milk production. The values of all these parameters are significantly altered in the event of lameness, and could be used to detect lameness automatically.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Pain, Precision farming, Welfare indicators
Published in 2023
Answer to a question on how the European Commission intends to apply the regulations banning the transport of live animals when temperatures exceed specified thresholds, and whether it intends to carry out additional temperature checks.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Transport
Published in 2023
Answer to a question on the European Commission's intentions concerning the introduction of specific requirements for dogs and cats during commercial transport, as part of the revision of European animal welfare regulations. It also concerns the welfare checks to be carried out on these animals to ensure their suitability for transport.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Canines, Felines
Keywords:Animal trade, Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Transport
Published in 2023
Audit report identifying weaknesses in the current system to control the protection of animals transported by sea from Croatia to third countries, including the absence of documented procedures to for the authorization of transporters by sea and the failure of inspectors to identify certain deficiencies. It contains three recommendations to the competent authorities to improve the effectiveness of the official system for the protection of animal welfare during sea transport.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Transport
Published in 2023
Answer to a question on whether the EU intends to regulate the use of captive wild animals in influencer videos, a practice that goes against animal welfare and fuels trafficking in the species concerned.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Wildlife, Exotic pets
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal trade, Societal issues, Population management, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2023
Scientific article on the development of a model of the 2016-2017 avian influenza epidemic to show that even a slight reduction in the density of palmiped farms in the most densely populated areas would have considerably reduced the number of poultry farms affected. However, this measure would not have been sufficient to completely prevent the spread of the virus.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Environment, Pathogen transfer,Societal issues
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