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A Modern Legal Framework
The new Animal Health strategy aims to establish a clearer regulatory structure for animal health in the EU. The existing legislation on animal health covers many different
policy areas: intra-community trade, imports, animal disease control, animal nutrition and animal welfare. This series of interrelated policy actions will be replaced by a
single regulatory framework. The framework will converge, as far as possible, with the international recommendations, standards and guidelines of the World Organisation for
Animal Health (OIE) and Codex Alimentarius. Furthermore, a harmonised EU framework for responsibility- and cost-sharing will be developed.
Follow the strategy's progress
Developing efficient cost and responsibility sharing schemes
- 5. Animal Diseases: Revision of the financial instrument (90/424/EC)
- 6. Feed sector: Harmonised EU framework of financial guarantees
Clearer and more risk-proportionate rules on animal by-products
- 7. Revision of Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 on animal by-products
Community influence on international standards
- 8. Improve EU coordination and promoting EU standards in the OIE on the basis on sound scientific evidence
- 9. Community membership of the OIE
Towards an export strategy at community level
- 10. Better prioritisation of actions against sanitary barriers and negotiating EU export conditions : locally based EU Market Access Teams
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