Document type : Regulation/Certification

Assemblée nationale : réponse écrite à la question n°10274 : Exploitation des animaux domestiques dans les spectacles itinérants

Question: Mrs Anne-Laurence Petel (Renaissance - Bouches-du-Rhône). Answer: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

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

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Assemblée nationale : réponse à la question n°11034 : Lutte contre la maltraitance animale

Question: Mr. Jean-Marc Zulesi (Renaissance - Bouches-du-Rhône). Answer: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

Published in 2023

Answer to a question on the timetable for implementation of article 14 of the law to combat animal abuse, which provides for the introduction of a positive list specifying the animal species that may be kept by private individuals and in hobby farms.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Wildlife

Keywords:Animal trade, Population management, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Societal issues

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Final report of an audit of Ireland carried out from 7 to 17 June 2022 in order to evaluate the protection of unweaned calves during long journeys

DG SANTE

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

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Assemblée nationale : réponse écrite à la question n°11685 : Conditions de transport des animaux vivants sur de longues distances

Question: Mr Jorys Bovet (Rassemblement National - Allier). Answer: French Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

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

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Assemblée nationale : réponse écrite à la question n°5244 : Souffrance des chiens vivant attachés en permanence

Question: Ms Yaël Menache (Rassemblement National - Somme). Answer: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

Published in 2024

Answer to a question on adapting the decree of October 25, 1982 on the breeding, keeping and possession of animals to improve living conditions for tethered dogs.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Canine

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Maltreatment, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress

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European Parliament: Written answer to Question E-002825/2023: A call to ban debeaking in Europe

Aurélia Beigneux (ID). Reply: Mrs Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission

Published in 2023

Answer to a question on the measures the European Commission intends to take to limit or even ban the debeaking of laying hens and, more generally, to better control intensive farming and encourage animal welfare on farms.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Mutilation, Livestock farming system

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European Parliament: written answer to question E-003166/23: Extending the use of in-ovo chick sexing methods to all poultry products sold on the EU market

Annika Bruna (ID), Eric Minardi (ID), Ivan Vilibor Sinčić (NI), Petras Auštrevičius (Renew), Elżbieta Kruk (ECR), Aurélia Beigneux (ID). Reply: Ms Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission

Published in 2023

Answer to a question on the European Commission's intentions regarding the extension of the ban on the killing of male chicks to all member states and third countries.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Poultry

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

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Assemblée nationale : réponse écrite à la question n° 12158 : Mise en place d’un droit de visite parlementaire dans les abattoirs

Karine Lebon (Gauche démocrate et républicaine - NUPES - Réunion). Answer: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

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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The Welfare of Birds at Slaughter in the United States

Animal Welfare Institute

Published in 2023

Report by the Animal Welfare Institute following a review of federal food inspection documents produced by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) between 2020 and 2022. It assesses the federal government's oversight of the slaughter of farmed birds in the USA.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Processing

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Décision n° 461367 du Conseil d’Etat concernant la notion de rémaménagement des bâtiments cage pour les poules pondeuses

Conseil d'État

Published in 2023

Text of the decision to reject the petition filed by 9 animal protection associations to partially disapply the  Decree of December 15, 2021, with regard to its interpretation of the concept of redevelopment as it applies to buildings used to rear laying hens in cages.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords: Livestock buildings, Housing

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