Curently FVE has the following Working Groups & Working Parties:

In January 2012, a joint FVE and EAEVE working group was formed with the following terms of reference FVE/011/doc/055 (include link) and more precisely two tasks:

TASK 1: Map animal welfare education in European veterinary Faculties. Delivery mid 2013. To do the mapping, the working group works in close collaboration with the EU-Project AWARE. A first survey is currently ongoing aimed at all institutions providing animal welfare education in Europe. Many responses have been received and some faculties who have not yet responded will be approached and kindly requested to still submit their information. A second survey will follow by the end of 2012 only targeting animal welfare education in veterinary faculties and more specifically regarding implementation of the courses.

TASK 2: Develop a model animal welfare (including ethics) curriculum for undergraduate veterinary education. Delivery 2013. The group is preparing a first draft syllabus and list of day1 competences available by the end of 2012 for broad public consultation.

The group held its first meeting on 28 February 2012 and since then is meeting regularly via telephone conferences. The next face-to-face meeting is planned on 14-15 January 2013.

For more info: see presentation given by Borut Zemljic at FVE General Assembly in Amsterdam June 2012

Mandate:

To collect information regarding the health of the honey bee sector.

To make recommendations to the FVE Board on possible methods to involve the veterinary profession in the sector.

To support the Board producing science-based input to national and EU decision makers about honey bee health and to provide guidelines on training of veterinarians in honey bee medicines such as featuring of bee health in the veterinary curriculum.

This Group has been set up in January 2012.

Terms of Reference

Mandate:

This group, which originated from the meat inspection working group, has as aim to provide a critical and independent analysis of the food safety policy of the European Union and on broad food safety issues of European-wide concern. In particular they deal with the implementation and revision of the hygiene package, BSE/TSE control, zoonotic issues, audits/inspections and meat inspection.

This Group was formed in July 2002 and revised last April 2011.

Temporary documents:

Meat inspection revision 2011 - FVE response to EC survey
Financing rules for Official Controls - FVE response to GHK survey
Revision of meat inspection - 3rd roundtable 14/12/2011

Mandate:

The Working Group on Medicines was revised in the beginning of 2009.
Its tasks are all issues relating to medicines and the availabilty of veterinary medicines in particular. Currently the MRL legislation and the revision of the Medicines Directive (2001/82/EC) as well as the use of antimicrobials and the extension of the list of products for the treatment of (food producing) horses are amongst the most important items the group works on.

Mandate:

Transporting live animals over long distance is already for decades a great concern for animal welfare and still stays today. The working group on transport greatly contributed to the Regulation No 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport. It also contributed to the abolishment of export refunds for live animals. After the adoption of the Regulation the group continued to work on implementation issues and currently already on the revision of the transport Regulation.

This long standing group was formed in 2001 and was revised in 2009.

Mandate:

The mandate of the Statutory Bodies Working Group is to assist FVE in developing a harmonised position with regard to the regulation of the veterinary profession in Europe and to other related international recommendations (e.g. OIE). Further to act as a facilitator for the exchange of information between national Competent Authorities, in particular in relation to the international movement of veterinary services, and to support Member States in the development of their regulations on the provisions of veterinary services.

The group was formed in January 2010.

FVE 1st Briefing note Evaluation of Dir. 2005/36/EC (PQD)- Sept 2010

FVE 2nd Briefing note on "PQD" - May 2011

Public consultation 1 phase (PQD) - CAs Experience Reports
Public consultation 2 phase (PQD) - FVE Response - March 2011
Public consultation 3 phase -Green Paper- FVE Response - Sept 2011

European Sectoral Profession Organizations (March 2011)
Press Release
European Sectoral Profession Organizations (March 2011)
Joint statement
Other European Organizations press releases: BEUC - EPHA/EPF - HFE
European Sectoral Professions Organizations (Nov 2011)
Joint statement
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Directive 36/2005/EC Overview

^^^^^^Briefing Note & Amendments 2012

More Information and documents are available upon request:
francesco@fve.org

Mandate:

EBVPD is a non-profit making organisation and its purpose is to set up and monitor minimum standards for the acknowledged veterinarian programs across Europe. The objective is to bring transparency, ensure quality of continuous professional development (CPD) programs, harmonise different national systems and promote mutual recognition among countries. Most notably its mission is:

• To establish and harmonise CPD standards for acknowledged veterinarians programmes in the different areas of veterinary profession
• To evaluate post-graduate training courses and programmes
• To certify existing programs according to the established standards

Mandate:

For many years, EAEVE together with FVE runs evaluation visits of veterinary teaching establishments. The objective of the Evaluation system is to help ensure a comparable level of veterinary training in Europe, as laid down by Directive 2005/36/EC (DA, DE, EL, EN, ES, FI, FR, IT, NL, PT, SV). To this end, the EAEVE and FVE arranges for teams of veterinary experts to carry out evaluation visits to veterinary schools and faculties in Europe.
After the visit, reports are submitted to the European Committee of Veterinary Education (ECOVE), consisting of members of EAEVE and FVE, who will then formally adopt the report. If a school has no category one deficiencies it can apply to be put on the "List of visited and approved faculties" (The positive list).

The Committees shall be appointed for a two-years term and may be re-appointed no more than twice. Not all members shall be changed at the same time.

Mandate:

The three organisations the “European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education” (EAEVE), the “European Board for Veterinary Specialisation” (EBVS) and FVE all have a strong interest in the training of veterinarians in Europe. To coordinate their goals and actions, the boards of directors and executive committees of the three organisations meet regularly. For this purpose, 2 joint committees were developed. The first one is the Joint Education Committee (see above) which looks upon the evaluation reports. The second one, the European Coordinating Committee for Veterinary Training (previously Joint Policy Committee) has a more political remit; it can propose policies of joint interest, which relate to recognition of the professional - especially professional qualification, continuing development and specialisation, - to the three boards.

The Committees shall be appointed for a two-years term and may be re- appointed no more than twice. Not all members shall be changed at the same time.