The European Parliament's Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals

EU strategy to phase-out animal testing needed

Animal Welfare Intergroup — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:00:46 +0000

The Intergroup for Animal Welfare and Conservation during its session in Strasbourg today discussed the issue of animal testing and expressed their extreme concern that new legislative proposals continue to promote animal testing. The Intergroup calls for a comprehensive EU strategy to be included in the 7th Environment Action Programme to ensure the number of [...]

Intergroup urges Bern Convention to give England’s badgers a fair hearing

Animal Welfare Intergroup — Mon, 21 May 2012 08:53:19 +0000

The European Parliament’s Intergroup for Animal Welfare and Conservation has written to the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention) urging it to give serious consideration to a complaint lodged by animal welfare charity Humane Society International/UK (HSI UK) against the UK government’s proposals to license badger slaughter as [...]

Catherine Bearder MEP (ALDE, UK) joins the Intergroup

Animal Welfare Intergroup — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:57:47 +0000

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 [...]

Report concludes zoo animals are suffering as European zoos continue to fail legal obligations of the EU Zoo Directive

Animal Welfare Intergroup — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:22:22 +0000

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 [...]

MEP Keith Taylor calls for a more comprehensive EU animal welfare strategy

Animal Welfare Intergroup — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:17:31 +0000

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 [...]

Event: ‘Human Toxome Project’ a new European Horizon for Risk Assessment

Animal Welfare Intergroup — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:50:40 +0000

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 [...]

Piotr Borys MEP joins the Animal Welfare Intergroup

Animal Welfare Intergroup — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:07:59 +0000

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 [...]

European Parliament sends positive signal on EU biodiversity strategy to 2020

Animal Welfare Intergroup — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:37:55 +0000

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 [...]

European Parliament adopts report on future Environment Action Programme (EAP)

Animal Welfare Intergroup — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:34:55 +0000

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. [...]

Press conference about humane management measures for abandoned animals

Animal Welfare Intergroup — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:31:18 +0000

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. [...]