9 Amendments of Tibor SZANYI related to 2016/2077(INI)
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas in organic production systems rabbits are kept in group pens with access to a small area of pasture at the base of the pen, which allows the rabbits more space, increased social interaction and more opportunities for natural behaviour such as gnawing on wooden blocks, eating hay, hiding in tubes and under platforms, standing on their hind legs, lying stretched out, hopping and jumping; notes that health problems may also occur in group pens, such as increase of diseases, mainly transmitted by oro-fecal route and higher mortality rates, while negative social interactions (aggressiveness, fighting, cannibalism) are also possible;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Encourages the research on the use of pen systems for groups, which are the mostmight be a suitable system for rabbits because of their highly social behaviour; points out that the use of pen systems improves the welfare of farm rabbits and reduces the incidence of abnormal behaviour amongst thembut might lead to more aggression and greater risk of injury;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes with concern that there ismight be a high rate of disease and mortality amongst caged farm rabbits, compared with other farmed species, therefore more research would be necessary on this field;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines that growing rabbits and does kept in pen systems, typically 750 cm²/rabbit for growers and 800 cm²/rabbit for does, benefit from more space for movement,; social interaction and play, and that platforms itresses that more research on pen systems allow rabbitsis needed to avoid aggressors by getting out of the way, with separate housing for does when they are nursing a litterion, injuries and the rapid development of diseases;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Points out that transport is an extremely stressful experience for rabbits; underlines that rabbits should be fed before long-distance transport and be provided with adequate food, water and space in transit, and that transport times should be as limited as possible, owing to the sensitivity of the species; emphasises that there are a huge variety of stress factors that affect animal welfare and that these differ between regions or even farms;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Points out that rabbits are frequently kept in battery cages, with no concessions being made to their natural environment, and kept alive through heavy recourse to products based on antibiotics; stresses the need to ban systematic recourse to pharmaceuticals to offset the shortcomings of intensive battery farming in terms of environment and health; calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage other types of rabbit farming such as the 'park' (indoor open pen) system, ‘improved’ barn rearing and organic rearing; stresses that these alternatives to intensive battery farming would make it possible to have less recourse to antibiotics, thereby curbing the spread of antimicrobial resistance;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Invites the Commission to consider pen systems as the guiding principle when proposing measures for housing requirements for breeding does and for rabbits reared for meat productionprovide additional support for research in rabbit and other minor species' farming;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Points out that a European transparent labelling has not yet been introduced for rabbit meat, thus leaving national distribution channels open to non-identified external elements that do not always comply with animal health and animal welfare legislation; urges therefore the inclusion in European legislation of mandatory origin labelling for rabbit meat, in addition to provisions governing rabbit breeding and slaughter, so as to ensure greater market transparency, uphold quality standards and protect consumer health;