Published in 2023
Answer to a question on the European Commission's intentions regarding the participation of children under the age of 18 in bullfights, either as bullfighters or as spectators.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Adaptation of the nimal to the environment, Education, Societal issues, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2023
Scientific review identifying egg storage, in ovo nutrition and the slaughter of 1-day-old male chicks as the main welfare problems in hatcheries, and describing practical avenues for improvements that can meet societal expectations.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Animal adaptation to the environment, Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Prenatal, Human-animal relationships, livestock farming systems
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
Scientific review setting out the history of the scientific study of animal welfare, and proposing that scientists in this field should specify the definition of animal welfare on which they base their work, the level at which their assessment is carried out, the assumptions they rely on to measure welfare, and the period on which they focus, in order to enable comparison between studies.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships
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:Animal adaptation to environment, Animal-based measurements, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Living environment, Human-animal relationships
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
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