12 Amendments of Keith TAYLOR related to 2012/2043(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Deplores the fact that, although the animal welfare agenda has been advanced through specific pieces of legislation, there are still too many areas where no specific EU legislation exists, such as on the welfare of dairy cows, beef cattle, ducks, geese, rabbits and farmed fish;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Regrets that the Commission has failed to make reference to, and to ensure coherence with, other policy areas that intersect with animal welfare, such as the 7th Environmental Action Programme, green public procurement, the EU's Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, the 8th Research Framework Programme and the Invasive Alien Species Strategy;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Draws attention to the ever-increasing number of petitions from European citizens from all the Member States asking for the regulations on animal protection and welfare to be tightened up in order to fill the existing loopholes; welcomes the Commission's objective of considering the feasibility of introducing a simplified EU legislative framework with animal welfare principles for all animals kept in the context of an economic activity including where appropriate pet animals;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that, in their petitions, European citizens strongly protest against bullfights and other spectacles that cause stress or injury to and/or kill animals; calls for an immediate cessation of EU funding of the fighting bull breeding industry and renovation of bullrings, and a firm rejection of the attempts to recognize bullfighting and other cruel spectacles as e.g. "El Toro de la Vega" as a part of Europe's intangible cultural heritage;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that the EU's dog and cat population is estimated at around one hundred million animals and that no EU legislation exists on pet animal welfare; calls on the Commission, therefore, in recognition of the 2010 Council Conclusions on the Welfare of Cats and Dogs, to promote the welfare of pet animals by ensuring minimum standards for their treatment and protection and a compulsory registration and microchipping system;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to intensify its proceedings in cases of non-fulfilment of the obligations established in Council Directive 1999/22/ECand Member States to take the necessary measures to ensure the implementation of Council Directive 1999/22/EC relating to the keeping of wild animals in zoos that include tighter controls and proceedings in cases of non-fulfilment of the obligations, initiatives that ensure all relevant stakeholders responsible for providing and assessing an animal's needs are appropriately trained and qualified, particularly in relationg to the keeping of wild animals in zooswild animal species in captivity, and effective use and engagement of species-specific enrichment programmes to guarantee appropriate mental and physical stimulation to prevent harm;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to ensure more effective implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport and related operations and urges the Commission to introduce legislation to restrict live animal transport time to 8 hours in the EU, as called for in the recently adopted Parliamentary declaration and by over 1 million signatories to a petition on this issue;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for better information ofor consumers about the methods of animal slaughter and production of animal products or animal by-products and their impact on the welfare of animals in the form of transparent and adequate labelling and package leaflets; in particular believes that meat and dairy products should be labelled to show the farming method;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls on the Commission to develop a strategy to improve the welfare of dairy cows and in particular to counter the growing industrialisation of EU dairy farming;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the Commission's willintention to include animal welfare in bilateral trade agreements orand cooperation forums and iturges that any such provisions should be made binding under the dispute settlement mechanisms of Free Trade Agreements; welcomes also the Commission's intention to examine how animal welfare can be better integrated in the framework of the European neighbourhood policy;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for anRe-iterates the existing legal obligation to use non- animal alternative methods as far as possible and wherever scientifically available in order to reduce to a minimum experiments which involve severe and prolonged suffering for animals. and calls on the Commission to use the system of controls of Member State inspections described in Article 35 of EU Directive 2010/63 on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes to inform and guide activities necessary to ensure consistent application of requirements relating to project evaluation, including rules concerning classification of the severity of procedures, and ensure robust implementation of requirements relating to the replacement, reduction and refinement of animal procedures
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Calls on the Commission to augment duties concerning coordination and promotion of the development and use of alternatives to animal procedures in the areas of basic and applied research and regulatory testing, as described in Annex VII of Directive 2010/63, by actively supporting relevant strategy-setting and research functions of the EU Reference Laboratory (the Joint Research Centre) to identify priority areas for replacement of animal research techniques;