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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...

Two MEPs discuss how animal welfare standard's can be improved We have to create a set of regulations that encourages sustainable production both in the EU and abroad

No other farming sector suffers from a greater lack of consumer confidence in animal welfare than the poultry sector, according to opinion polls. In a Eurobarometer survey...

As the world trade talks continue over tariffs, barriers and subsidies in agriculture, the issue of animal welfare is only seldom raised. Farming and animal welfare groups...

It has been a decade since the link between Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and its human version Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) was first reported by the UK...

An animal welfare label for meat, eggs and dairy products is being considered by the European Commission. The idea of this scheme is included in an action plan on animal...

In theory, the keeping of hens in cramped battery cages in the EU will be consigned to history in 2012 when the practice will be outlawed by an EU directive passed in 1999....

Mass chicken rearing is the last major area of meat production on this continent to remain outside the regulators' purview. The European Commission has undertaken to remedy...

Two MEPs discuss the EU's best options for avoiding future outbreaks of animal-related diseases Unhealthy working conditions and dire animal breeding must be changed...

EU FARM ministers supported calls for controls on animal feed to be tightened up in the wake of the Belgian dioxin scare. "There is general agreement on the need to look at...

GERMANY has bowed to pressure from poultry farmers, and watered down proposed EU-wide minimum welfare standards for breeding hens in an attempt to get an agreement within the...

A GERMAN bid to exempt small poultry farms from proposed EU-wide rules setting minimum animal welfare standards for breeding hens has sparked fresh controversy. Under a...

EU FARM ministers will meet this weekend for an informal discussion on one key element of the European Commission'sstrategy to promote environmentally sound farming...

Geoff Meade takes a light-hearted look at life in the European UnionENLARGEMENT is, without doubt, the biggest challenge confronting the European Union. Even those who...

THE European Commission has been forced to water down proposals aimed at improving welfare standards for battery hens after its lawyers advised that a key provision would...

THERE can surely be no better way for a lobby group to ensure its voice is heard in the Union's institutions than to be led by a man with years of experience at the heart of...