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Wednesday February 01, 2012
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“Veterinarians – both private practitioners and officials – and farmers need to work together to fight this new challenge"
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Sunday January 29, 2012
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A proposed EU concession to help put an end to the 20-year
hormone beef trade war with the USA and Canada was unanimously endorsed
by the International Trade Committee on Thursday. The proposal, which
would raise the EU import quota for beef from animals not treated with
hormones, will be put to a vote by Parliament as a whole on 13 March.
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Saturday January 28, 2012
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The priorities of Denmark's Presidency of the EU Council of
Ministers were presented to European Parliament committees by
Danish ministers at meetings on 23-26 January.
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Friday January 27, 2012
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European Commission, via a letter of formal notice requesting for
information, called on Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, France, Italy,
Cyprus, Latvia, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Romania
to take action to address deficiencies in the implementation of EU
legislation concerning the welfare of animals, and specifically to
implement the ban on "un-enriched" cages for laying hens which applied
as of 1st January 2012, as laid down by Directive 1999/74/EC.
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Tuesday January 24, 2012
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On 19 January, the European Commission adopted the 2012-2015
Animal Welfare strategy paper. FVE is pleased that several of its recommendations have
been taken into consideration. On the other hand the Federation
regrets that the document is not more ambitious in its objectives
and planned action: the strategy "could have gone
further" in the field of companion animals.
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Friday January 20, 2012
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John Dalli Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy EU Animal Welfare
Strategy 2012-2015: Analysing the past and shaping the future Statement
on the adoption of the EU Animal Welfare Strategy 2012-2015 Brussels,
19 January 2012
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Thursday January 12, 2012
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The “Guidelines to assess fitness for transport of adult bovine animals”, prepared by Eurogroup for animals, Animals’ Angels, UECBV (European Livestock and Meat Trading Union), FVE (Federation of Veterinarians of Europe), IRU (International Road Transport Union) and ELT (European Livestock Transporters) are officially published.
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Tuesday January 10, 2012
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This article written by Ms K Burns from the Journal of the AVMA sums up the rationale and state of play of the "One Health" concept.
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