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Ban on cages without adequate space not being implemented. The European Commission today (26 January) notified 13 member states that they have failed to properly implement EU...

Initiative may not win full support from animal rights groups. The European Commission is weighing up whether to propose dedicated EU legislation on animal welfare, according...

Ester Peeters on job with the Belgian government that involves some trips to the countryside and handling religious sensitivities. There are not many government positions...

The Parliament's portrayal of its compromise on the directive on animal experiments was distorted. It is not often that an NGO congratulates the European Parliament press...

Laboratories that use animals in scientific experiments will be subject to new checks. Laboratories that use animals in scientific experiments will be subject to...

Parliament must do more to stop animal suffering. The revision of the EU directive on the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes has...

Deputies in row over revising 1986 directive on EU rules on animal experiments. A row has flared up in the European Parliament over a draft law to revise the EU's 1986 rules...

Mojca Drčar Murko explains why she opposes the animal experiments directive. I wanted to explain why I took the highly unusual step of withdrawing my name from the opinion...

Commission flags possibility of new rules after campaign for better treatment of animals in transit. The European Commission today said that it is considering tougher rules...

Author of European Parliament report describes proposed ban as “worst of both worlds”; Greenland brings case against ban to Brussels. A proposal from the European...

Commission's inexpert, untransparent committee has produced a one-sided and unscientific inquiry into the use of animals for research. The European Coalition to End Animal...

Animal-welfare group says many European zoos are failing to meet standards that are already too low and too vague. Animals in zoos across Europe are being kept in conditions...

Commission seeks to limit animal testing; animal-welfare group urges more spending on alternatives. Great apes – such as chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans –...

Research commissioner seeks exemption to ban; animal welfare groups deplore slow progress. A dispute over banning great apes from scientific research will come to a head on...

EU executive says revisions to 1993 rules should limit the distress and pain inflicted on animals. All slaughter houses in Europe will have to comply with stricter...

Updated regulations likely to emphasise variety of newer techniques and need for training. The European Commission will begin to update EU rules on animal slaughter next...

Causing a minimum of pain and distress has become the guiding principle of animal testing. In 1959 William Russell and Rex Burch, in a paper entitled ‘The Principles of...

The commissioner in charge of animal welfare wants to prevent animals being squeezed into trucks with little food and water. Animal welfare matters to Androulla Vassiliou,...

The need to use animals – and the degree of suffering – should be scientifically justified, with the benefits to humans weighed against the pain to animals. Animals...