Next meeting / topics for this 283th session: Animal Experimentation
Date: Thu. 24 May 2012
Time: 10:00-11:00 hrs
Venue: Room LOW N 3.2 - EP Strasbourg
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The loss of biodiversity is happening right under our noses… and too many people choose not to listen, Catherine Bearder MEP has said. It came as Catherine joined the Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals, which is the hub for animal welfare in the European Parliament. The group has successfully worked for an [...]
Last week, the Born Free Foundation has released its summary report on the EU Zoo Inquiry 2011, an investigation into the licensing and performance of zoos in 20 EU Member States. This was done during a very successful exhibition at the European Parliament which had been initiated by Bill Newton Dunn (ALDE, UK) in collaboration [...]
During the last plenary session, Keith Taylor co-tabled amendments to strengthen a draft opinion in the Parliament’s Petitions Committee (PETI) on the European Commission’s proposed animal welfare strategy until 2015. Keith is a member of the European Parliament’s Animal Welfare Intergroup, as wellas the MEP leading on this file in PETI for the Greens/EFA political group. One [...]
Vittorio PRODI MEP (S&D, IT) invites you to: ‘Human Toxome Project’ A new European Horizon for Risk Assessment Lunch Debate 15th of May, 12:00 to 14:00 PHS 1A002 Toxicity testing is not delivering what safety of products demands nor is it sufficiently relying upon the most advanced technologies. It typically involves studying adverse health outcomes [...]
Why have you decided to join the Intergroup? Actually, as an owner of a cat and a dog, I always understood the importance of the protection of animals. For some time now I have been active in the biggest Polish voluntary association dealing with animal welfare – Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zwierzętami – TOZ. By joining [...]
Eurogroup welcomes today’s adoption of the draft report on the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020 by the European Parliament inStrasbourg. The report, drafted by Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy MEP, calls for biodiversity to be considered and integrated in all other EU policy fields including the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) which are [...]
Last Friday the European Parliament adopted in plenary the report of Jo Leinen on the future EU environment action programme which sets the framework for EU environment policy. The report calls for the main focus to be on improving the implementation of existing environment policies, integration of environment policy with other policies and better coherence. [...]
During a press conference on Thursday morning in the European Parliament in Strasbourg Tiziano Motti MEP (EPP, IT) presented a video by Onlus F.I.D.A. (Federazione Italiana Diritti Animali) highlighting the ill-treatments of companion animals in numerous kennels in Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania as well as the massacre of stray dog populations in the Ukraine. [...]
On 11 April 2012, MEP Nadja Hirsch, Vice-President of the Intergroup on Animal Welfare and Conversation hosted an information event on regional food products and animal breeding in Munich. Several facts formed the basis of discussion: In 2010, 591 million broilers were produced and killed in Germany. 96 percent of the broilers are treated with [...]
The Animal Welfare Intergroup announced that written declaration 47 on fish as a common good has reached majority support in the House on Thursday 29 March. We congratulate Kriton ARSENIS, Raül ROMEVA i RUEDA, Guido MILANA, Corinne LEPAGE and Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES for this good result. Many thanks to all MEPs who have [...]
