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EUROPA European Commission DG Health and Consumers Overview Animal Health and Welfare

Live AnimalsSemen, Ova & EmbryosProducts of Animal OriginAnimal DiseasesIdentificationAnimal WelfareZootechnicsStrategy (2007-2013)

Animal Health & Welfare - Publications

General

Prevention and Control of Animal Diseases

The new Animal Health Strategy (2007-2013): "prevention is better than cure"
Report concerning the availability of alternative veterinary medicinal products to those containing oestradiol 17ß or its ester-like derivatives for the treatment of fetal maceration or mummification in cattle, and for the treatment of pyometra
Questions and Answers on the Court of Auditors report on the bovine identification database (SIRB) (16 November 2004)
A Risk Financing Model for Livestock Epidemics in the European Union, (October 2003, Institute for Risk Management in Agriculture -IRMA- Wageningen University, Netherlands)
- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE)
- Report on the monitoring and testing of ruminants for the presence of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) in the EU in 2004 (355MB)
- Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD)
- Chronology of main events and list of decisions adopted by the Commission (717KB) (updated 8 April 2003)
- Press Releases/Results & Statements of the Standing Veterinary Committee which relate to FMD
- EU policy on Vaccination against FMD
- International Conference on Control and Prevention of Foot and Mouth Disease - Final Report - Brussels 12-13 December 2001
- Avian Influenza
- Factsheet Avian Influenza (152KB) updated
- Chronology of outbreak in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany starting 28 February 2003 (333KB) updated
- Information Note of Commissioner David Byrne to the Commission : Avian Influenza in the Netherlands and Belgium (84KB) (situation as of 22 April 2003)

Animal Welfare

FACTSHEET: Animal welfare - Ensuring the humane and responsible treatment of farmed animals (March 2007)
Animal health, Animal welfare and Zootechnics (Fieldwork Activity report 2005) (457KB)
Special Eurobarometer: Attitudes of consumers towards the welfare of farmed animals (Fieldwork : February- March 2005 Publication : June 2005) (679KB)
Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on Animal Welfare Legislation on farmed animals in Third Countries and the Implications for the EU, 18 November 2002 (200KB)
Overview of results of a series of missions to evaluate controls of animal welfare on farms in seven Member States carried out between June 2001 and June 2002 (213KB)

Office International des Epizooties (OIE) : Community Coordination

Global conference on animal welfare: an OIE initiative, Paris, 2325 February 2004.
Proceedings (5 MB)
Draft Written comments of the Community on the report of the meeting of the Bureau of the OIE [Office International des Epizooties] International Animal Health Code Commission [Paris July 2003] and the Scientific Commission [Paris August 2003] to be submitted for adoption and consideration in the 72nd General Session to be held in May 2004 (6 MB) Submitted by the European Union to the OIE on 19 November 2003
Draft Written comments of the Community on the report of the meeting of the Bureau of the OIE [Office International des Epizooties] Aquatic Animals Health Code Commission [Paris July 2003] and the Scientific Commission [Paris August 2003] to be submitted for adoption and consideration in the 72nd General Session to be held in May 2004 (705KB) Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 23 October 2003 (SEC/2003/1177)
Draft Written comments of the Community on the report of the meeting of the Bureau of the OIE [Office International des Epizooties] Aquatic Animals Health Standards Commission [Paris June 2003] to be submitted for adoption and consideration in the 72nd General Session to be held in May 2004 (354KB) Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 29 September 2003 (SEC/2003/1065)

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