Document type : Regulation/Certification

Assemblée nationale : Réponse écrite à la question n°37408 : La réglementation de l’abattage des animaux

Laurence Trastour-Isnart (Les Républicains - Alpes-Maritimes), French Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2021

Answer to an EU parliamentary question on the availability of statistics on the demand for and production of meat from ritual slaughter

Document types: Regulation/Certification

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

Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues

Access the source: National Assembly: Written response to Question No. 37408: Regulations Governing the Slaughter of Animals

Assemblée nationale : Réponse écrite à la question n°34378 : Conditions d’élevage et les mutilations subies par les chapons

Danièle Obono (La France insoumise - Paris), French Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2021

Answer to a parliamentary question on the Government's intentions regarding the practice of caponisation.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords: Pain, Societal issues, Mutilation

Access the source: National Assembly: Written response to Question No. 34378: Farming conditions and mutilations suffered by capons

Assemblée nationale : Réponse écrite à la question n°32713 : Conditions d’élevage et de castration des chapons en France

Alexandra Valetta Ardisson (La République en Marche - Alpes-Maritimes), French Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2021

Answer to a parliamentary question on a possible legal ban on the practice of caponisation.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords: Pain, Societal issues, Mutilation

Access the source: National Assembly: Written response to Question No. 32713: Conditions for raising and castrating capons in France

Assemblée nationale : Réponse écrite à la question n°32866 : Bien-être des poissons en élevage

Dimitri Houbron (Agir ensemble - Nord), French Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2021

Answer to a parliamentary question on the measures the Ministry of Agriculture intends to take to improve the living conditions of farmed fish.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Fish

Keywords: Societal issues, Livestock farming system

Access the source: National Assembly: Written response to Question No. 32866: Welfare of farmed fish

Assemblée nationale : Réponse écrite à la question n°37355 : Règlementation de l’abattage des animaux-Dérogation à l’obligation d’étourdir

Claire O'Petit (La République en Marche - Eure), French Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2021

Answer to a parliamentary question on the availability of statistical data on the production of and demand for meat from ritual slaughter.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

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

Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues

Access the source: National Assembly: Written response to Question No. 37355: Regulations Governing the Slaughter of Animals—Exemption from the Stunning Requirement

Assemblée nationale : Réponse écrite à la question n°38226 : Abattage sans étourdissement

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (Non-registered - Essonne), French Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2021

Answer to a parliamentary question on the availability of statistical data on the production of and demand for meat from ritual slaughter.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

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

Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues

Access the source: National Assembly: Written response to Question No. 38226: Slaughter without stunning

Sénat : Réponse écrite à la question n°21673 : Abattage sans étourdissement

André Vallini (Isère - SER), French Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2021

Question on the existence of statistics on the demand for and production of meat from ritually-slaughtered animals in France.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

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

Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues

Access the source: Senate: Written response to Question No. 21673: Slaughter without stunning

Final report of an audit of Belgium from 12 october 2020 to 16 october 2020 in order to evaluate controls of animal welfare at slaughter and during related operations

DG SANTE

Published in 2021

DG SANTE audit report on Belgium highlighting that little progress has been made by the Belgian competent authorities since the previous audit in 2014 on the assessment of the effectiveness of official controls on commercial operators when killing animals in abattoirs.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

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

Keywords: Consciousness, Pain

Access the source: Final report on an audit of Belgium conducted from October 12, 2020, to October 16, 2020, to evaluate controls on animal welfare at slaughter and during related operations

Rapport final d’un audit réalisé en France du 26 octobre 2020 au 9 novembre 2020 afin d’évaluer le bien-être des animaux pendant le transport par navires de transport du bétail vers des pays tiers

DG SANTE

Published in 2021

DG SANTE audit report on France, concluding that the controls carried out on vessels loading in France and in the course of the French approvals procedure for livestock vessels are not sufficient to minimise the risks for animal welfare.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

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

Keywords: Transport

Access the source: Final report of an audit conducted in France from October 26, 2020, to November 9, 2020, to assess animal welfare during transport by livestock carriers to third countries

Décision du Conseil d’Etat n°441660 du 27 mai 2021

Conseil d'État

Published in 2021

Decision of the French Council of State ordering the government to publish its promised decree to introduce a gradual ban on the rearing of laying hens in cages within 6 months as it considers that the delay in the publication of this decree exceeds reasonable time limits. 

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords: Housing, Livestock farming system,Societal issues

Access the source: Decision of the Council of State No. 441660, dated May 27, 2021