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1-2 December: Barcelona Animal Welfare Workshop
Training of vet practitioners continues !
After the successful workshop in Budapest on animal welfare, a
2nd workshop was held in Barcelona on 1-2 December.
Jointly organised by DG SANCO, FVE, the Consejo General de Colegios
Veterinarios de España and the UAB it took place in Barcelona
and was attended by veterinarians mostly from Spain but also from
Italy, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece, Malta, France, Switzerland and
Turkey.
Veterinary surgeons have an important role in providing expertise
and knowledge to the general public and animal keepers as well as
to policy makers.
As in Budapest, the workshop has consisted of both a theoretical
as well as a practical on-farm and zoo session, where participants
put their knowledge in practice.
Aims were to provide veterinarians a deeper understanding of animal
welfare, per species animal welfare legislation knowledge and species-specific
welfare assessment schemes.
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A third workshop will be held in Latvia on the 19/20 April 2012.
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Austrian
vet wins BEVA Trust Equine Transport Enforcement Award
Vets attending the first Veterinary-led European Equine Transport
Forum, held in Brussels on 29th November 2010, agreed that their
profession needs to take a leading role to help enforce current
regulations governing the long-distance transport of horses, in
order for equine welfare standards to be improved.
Dr Alexander
Rabitsch,
a practising vet in Austria, has become the first recipient of the
BEVA Trust Equine Transport Enforcement Award.
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18 November 2011
FVE Seminar on antimicrobials
On the occasion of EU Antibiotic Awareness Day, the Federation
of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE) with the support of EC DG Sanco
and the Polish Presidency run a successful seminar entitled
"Antimicrobials: a true One Health issue"
Challenges and opportunities in the medical and veterinary field.
More than 300 attendants joined the veterinary family. Speakers
fron the Human medicine, veterinary medicine, DG Sanco and European
Parliament provided their views to the audience.
A round table moderated by Mr P
Jinman from UK hosted interested parties from the veterinary
practitioners in EU and in USA, the pharmaceutical companies (IFAH),
farmers organization (Copa-Cogeca), OIE and the Human medicine (CPME).
CONCLUSIONS
Presentations
Speakers Bios
Agenda
Polish
Presidency
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Veterinary Week 2011
The EU Veterinary Week 2011 took place from 19 to 20 May 2011
in Charlemagne building, Brussels, Belgium.
An outdoor stand was set up along the Berlaymont Esplanade allowing
the general public and several schools to know more what veterinarians
do for the society.
The technical conference focused on "Crisis management
in the food chain".
Over 350 people from 300 organisations, companies and countries
took part in the conference.
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site
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The 2010 event was attended by over 400 participants including
the Chief Veterinary Officers from EU Member States, as well as
representatives of third countries, international organisations,
EU veterinary faculties, stakeholder organisations and journalists.
"Identification and traceability along the food chain"
was the overarching theme. Click here
to watch the short video illustrating the importance of traceability;
conference presentations, videos and pictures are here
available.
Similar events were organised in 2008, 2009 on 'Biosecurity' and
'One health'.
Further details can be found at the following websites: www.one-health.eu
and DG
Sanco website
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World Veterinary Year 2011
"The analogy of mechanism between the human body and that
of the animal [...] is truly constant, and to stray from the path
that leads to the healing of one and look for new paths to heal
the other is to run the risk of committing criminal errors".
In 2011, all the veterinary institutions joining the World Veterinary
Year are organising in their own countries events to promote our
profession.
The main aim is to improve public awareness and remind policymakers
everywhere in the world that:
* Our profession has been serving humankind for 250 years;
* Modern veterinarians are not only animal doctors and animal welfare
advocates, they are also key public health stakeholders because
of their crucial role in:
1. promoting food security by supervising animal production hygiene,
2. controlling zoonoses,
3. monitoring food quality and safety,
4. biomedical research,
5. protecting the environment and biodiversity.
January
24: Official Opening Ceremony at Versailles, France
Vet 2011
official home page
Members'
distribution map
"Vets in your daily life": watch
the videos
Honouring over 50 years of registration and service to the veterinary
profession in Ireland - Press
Release
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October: Official Closing Ceremony in Cape Town South Africa
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Animal welfare in the Baltic Region, May 2011
The first conference on animal welfare in the Baltic region was
held on 5 - 6 May 2011 in Vilnius (Lithuania). Over 200 people from
20 countries attended the event, organised jointly by Vier
Pfoten/Four Paws, Federation of Veterinarians of Europe, the
Istituto G. Caporale (Teramo), the European Commission, the Lithuanian
Parliament (Seimas), the Lithuanian Ministry of Agriculture, the
Movement of Humans for Animals.
A Declaration
on "Responsible Ownership" which calls for EU-wide
dog identification to combat puppy trade has been issued.
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European Pet Night 2011 - 23 February 2011
The 6th edition took place in Brussels on 23 February 2011. The
special guests of the evening were delegations of British, Belgian,
Luxembourgish and French rescue dog team. FVE was of the co-organisers.
Millions of European citizens' daily lives benefit through companion
animals and the European Pet Night is the annual event showing how
pets are able to change lives of people across Europe.
Watch the video
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FVE/Beva European transport forum - November 2010
The European Transport Forum took place in Brussels on 29 November
2010. The aim was to discuss how the welfare of horses during transport
can be improved through the better enforcement of legislation.
The Forum was jointly organised by the FVE and BEVA and is sponsored
by The BEVA Trust and World Horse Welfare (WHW), with support from
European Commission DG Sanco and the European Economic and Social
Committee.
Read the
programme
Read the report
Presentations:
- Opening
R. De Keyser
- European
Commission view by Andrea Gavinelli
- Horse
transport stats and report by Willy Baltussen
- FVO
missions on horse transport by Terence Cassidy
- View of World
Horse Welfare by Jo White
- View of Animals' Angels (handout
and ppt)
by Christa Blanke
- FEI
by Graeme Cooke
- View by
Austrian Vet Inspector by Alexander Rabitsch
- View by Italian
Vet Inspector by Mario Sapino
- Practical considerations by Gianluigi
Giovagnoli
- Relationship
horse transport, ID, etc by Josh Slater
- Outcome
Panel I: horses transported for slaughter
- Outcome
Panel II: horses transported for other reasons
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1st International Conference on Animal Welfare Education - October
2010
Under the motto "Everyone is responsible" the 1st EC
International Conference on Animal Welfare Education was held in
Brussels and co-organised by the Commission and the Belgian Presidency
of the EU.
It provided more information to the citizens about educational
tools and programs on animal welfare, and to raise awareness about
how important it is to educate citizens, farmers, professional animal
carers, handlers, slaughterhouse operators, retailers and other
stakeholders on how animals should be treated.
The conference was opened by Mr. J. Dalli, European Commissioner
for Health and Consumer Policy, with an introduction from the Belgian
Presidency of the EU. Ten children from various EU Member States
received awards from Prince Laurent of Belgium for having their
drawings selected in the drawing competition organised earlier this
year by the European Commission: more than 1500 drawings were submitted
from across the EU.
Read more on the conference
Read the press
realease
Look at the pictures
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14 September 2010: FVE, UECBV and Copa Cogeca Joint Seminar
Food safety: a shared responsibility. The future of meat inspection:
stakeholders’ contribution to the Commission round tables on
the review of meat inspection
The seminar, co-organized by FVE, COPA-COGECA and the European
Livestock and Meat Trading Union (UECBV) aimed at establishing a
state of play of the strong points and the weak points of the current
system in order to determine the possible bases of a risk-based
inspection; this event was a follow-up of the seminar on veterinary
inspection organized by the French Presidency in July 2008 in Lyon.
Read the Key
findings
Look at the presentations
Download
the Programme
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Influenza at the interface between humans and animals Conference
For further information visit the following website: DG
Sanco
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Veterinary Week 2009 - September 2009
The launch of this year's Veterinary week "Animals + Humans
= One health" was held on 28 September in Brussels.
The key message of the conference - "EU health professionals
working together to ensure good health for all".
For further information visit the following website: DG
Sanco
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FVE / TAIEX workshop on regional cooperation
for rabies control
A Workshop on rabies with the title "Regional cooperation
towards eradicating of the oldest known zoonotic disease in Europe",
organised by FVE in collaboration with TAIEX and the Turkish veterinary
medical association, took place in Antalya (Turkey) on 4 and
5 December 2008.
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Kick-off EU Vet Week 2008 - November 2008
EU Veterinary Week focused on biosecurity, started with a kick-off
meeting called "One Health: healthy animals = healthy people"
on Monday 10th November in Brussels
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Seminar on Veterinary Statutory Bodies, private veterinarians
and paraprofessionals in the Veterinary Services - June 2008
Chief Veterinary Officers, chiefs and experts from Veterinary Statutory
Bodies from 23 European countries, one country observer and 2 international
organisations took part in the seminar on "Veterinary Statutory
Bodies, private veterinarians and paraprofessionals in the Veterinary
Services" organized by the OIE Regional Commission for Europe
in Sofia on 17-18 June 2008.
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FVE Conference on MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus) - April 2008
FVE organised a scientific conference on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA) in humans and animals in Brussels on 8 April
(Tuesday) 2008.
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FVE / TAIEX Conference on Veterinary Medicines Legislation
- March 2008
FVE and TAIEX organised a meeting to discuss challenges for candidate
countries preparing for implementing the Veterinary Medicines Legislation
next 18 March 2008 in Zagreb (Croatia).
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FVE/TAIEX workshop on Classical Swine Fever -
September 2007
The FVE and the Veterinary Association of Romania organised a Workshop
on Classical Swine Fever in the South East of Europe on 17
and 18 September 2007 with the support of TAIEX.
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FVE/TAIEX conference on Animal Health, Animal Welfare and
Public Health
On 15-16 March 2007 FVE welcomed around 200 veterinarians
from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland in Riga/Latvia for a
conference on the implementation of EU veterinary legislation.
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reception
Over 70% of human pathogens originate from animals. Bacteria, viruses,
prions, parasites, worms, etc. can easily be transmitted from animals
to people. For this reason FVE strives to stress the fact that there
is only one health and that healthy animals make healthy people.
Veterinary Public Health is an essential part of Global Public Health.
In order to pass on this message to lawmakers and relevant stakeholders,
FVE organized a reception on 3 October 2007 for members of European
Institutions like the European Parliament, the European Commission,
permanent representations of Members States and other lobby organizations.
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