4 Amendments of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2020/2085(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the latest scientific knowledge and increased consumer interest show the need for revising and introducing new legislation to improve animal welfare and make the farming of animals more sustainable;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s efforts to consolidate legislation on animal welfare and animal health and ensure that the requirements are clear and fit to protect all farmed animals during rearing, transport and slaughter; stresses that these requirements must be applied correctly and uniformly throughout the EU and that regular and comprehensive checks must be carried out, and EU-harmonised sanction systems put forward; welcomes the Commission’s planned revision of legislation in this area in 2023 in keeping with the objectives of the Farm to Fork Strategy, by reversing intensification in animal production and significantly reducing the stress at the time of transport, slaughter as well as during culling operations;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. With a view to the One Health approach, welcomes the Commission’s goal to halve sales of antimicrobials for farmed animals and in aquaculture by 2030; points to the fact that to achieve this goal, improved animal husbandry practices are essential, as better animal welfare improves animal health, thus reducing the need for medication;
Amendment 223 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Urges the revision of Council Directive 98/58/EC concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes, which sets down generic rules that have proved difficult to implement and enforce; suggests therefore transposing this Directive into a Regulation, thereby creating the possibility of delivering delegated and implementing acts to set down welfare requirements for species for which no species-specific EU minimum standards presently exist, including dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, goats, turkeys, ducks, geese, rabbits, farmed fish and of all their offspring;