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Major milestone in #EUTrade ‼️
@Food_EU report explicitly confirms there is space to impose more of our #AnimalWelfare rules on imported goods 💪
This is one of our long-standing asks, especially with the coming revision of 🇪🇺 AW legislation!
Read us ➡️eurogroupforanimals.org/news…
🇪🇺 = 3rd largest agri-food importer
Using this weight, we want to promote health, environmental & animal welfare standards worldwide 🌎
Read our ambitious agenda in this new report ⬇
#EUFarm2Fork #EUGreenDeal
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It is welcoming to see for the first time a promise on a concrete timeline after such a long delay to better protect millions of animals.
Commissioner @OliverVarhelyi clearly stated his intention to have the first legislative proposals out in 2026: bit.ly/3DzSFDF
⤵️see below our key takeaways from @MarosSefcovic hearing !
He did not discuss further tools to ensure greener trade policy, esp. on agrifood, also referring to @CHansenEU - who now has just said there is a need to see how to ensure compliance of imports with EU standards!
While Commissioner-designate for #Trade, @MarosSefcovic did not explicitly mention conditioning #AnimalWelfare standards to imports of animal products in his hearing today, here's some positive takeaways:
✅ Not rushing for an EU-Mercosur deal
✅ Improving transparency in EU trade deal negotiations
✅ Injecting more sustainability in EU trade policy
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According to the latest audit by DG Health and Food Safety @EU_Health conducted in spring 2024, #Brazil 🇧🇷 does not even guarantee that meats 🥩 exported to the EU are hormone-free.
@SKyriakidesEU @vonderleyen @steph_sejourne @Teresaribera @MarosSefcovic @CHansenEU
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Yesterday @RSPCAChris chaired our #AnimalsMatter panel with @ciwf @FOURPAWSUK @HSIUKorg at #LabourConference24
Great to be joined by @NadaFarhoud @AJogee @RuthJonesLabour @SueHayman1 fantastic news to hear @DefraGovUK will publish an animal welfare strategy!
Very pleased to see strong calls regarding #TradePolicy !
Trade policy should be coherent with our sustainability standards, and yes, that means the EC, where WTO compatible, should adopt more import requirements - notably on #AnimalWelfare💪
We welcome the consensus reached at the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture 🙌
🐔 An emphasis on the need for revised #animalwelfare legislation + phase out cages
🥬 A call for policies that ensure accessibility & affordability of healthy, sustainable food to consumers
🏷️ A call for a labelling scheme to ensure that consumers have access to knowledge on what they are consuming
agriculture.ec.europa.eu/com…
(1/2) The EU #SealBan is an iconic #AnimalWelfare measure : clear, fair and successful.
No EU citizens wants to fuel such cruelty, even unknowingly.
In addition, this measure also led to the @wto recognising #AnimalWelfare as falling under the #publicmorals exception ...
‘I have seen this hunt with my own eyes’ 💔
Director of @Respect4Animals, Mark Glover, explains why it is crucial to maintain restrictions on seal skin products in the EU. 🩵🦭
#ActforSeals: tell the @EU_Commission you want seals to remain protected from cruel commercial hunting: bit.ly/3yRmpd5
(2/2) meaning trade could be restricted to protect citizens who are shocked by this practice.
This was a huge "precedent" in the WTO caselaw.
Issues (if any) with coexistence between 🦭&🐟should not put this success in jeopardy.
Show you care, #Act4Seals and participate👇
And here is summer again...💔
Animals washed up on beaches all over the Mediterranean.
Pigs crammed into trucks, forced to endure days-long journeys under the scorching sun (48+ degrees recorded).
When will this cruelty stop, @EU_Commission?
#BanLiveExport #LiveTransport
bit.ly/3YJtTtF
Steph Ghislain retweeted
👋 Today marks the first day the new @EP_Agriculture gathered to discuss the EU's farming and #FoodSystems!
Special thanks to the new AGRI Chairwoman, @vrecionova, for stating she will personally focus on #AnimalWelfare. We look forward to seeing big progress in this area. 💚
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🦭 Potential impact of #seals on the fishing industry can be countered by non-lethal methods.
🐟 The availability of alternative methods to protect fisheries makes #seal hunting unnecessary.
⚠️ We have until 7 August to #ActforSeals 👉 bit.ly/3yRmpd5
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We are in Strasbourg for the first plenary session of this political term! 🇪🇺
What has happened so far & why is this session important for #animalwelfare?
Our Political Adviser, Cristina, explains it in this video 👇
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Encouraging words from Socialist Spitzenkandidate @NSchmitPES: societies that don't care for animals also don't care for humans and animals deserve much better rights.
Great hope he will sign the #VoteforAnimals pledge 👏
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🚨 Animals need you! 🚨
The #EUelections2024 are around the corner and several candidates have yet to sign the #VoteforAnimals pledge.
Join our call & urge them to commit to doing better for animals if elected: citizens.voteforanimals.org
It is really time for this odd "tradition" to stop... ( poke @EU2024BE)
How on earth can it still be justified to obviously favour one counterpart (not even saying a sector as the representativeness of copa-cogeca is increasingly contested..) ? EU citizens deserve better..
Steph Ghislain retweeted
Protecting animal health and welfare helps to build healthier communities, sustainable food systems, preserve biodiversity, and advance progress towards the @GlobalGoalsUN.
On the other hand, neglecting animal health and welfare, including through illegal wildlife trade, puts us all at risk of epidemics and pandemics from zoonotic spillovers.
I thank the @WrldFed4Animals for thier continued commitment to protecting the health and welfare of animals – and by extension, the health of people. #OneHealth
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“On trade, the new Dutch government will work toward banning imports of what is not allowed to be produced in the Netherlands to ensure a level playing field when concluding international trade agreements.”
Import requirements (mirror measures): a key topic under next mandate?
It happened in the end: A farmers’ protest movement has entered a European government for the first time in the Netherlands. Here's what they have in the pipeline and how it will impact EU agricultural policy
euronews.com/my-europe/2024/…
Congratulations @RSPCAChris !!🎉🎉
Steph Ghislain retweeted
This is the most exciting, potentially consequential, development ahead of the EU elections:
@vonderleyen might lack a majority in the next EU Parliament as a result of the EPP's opening to far-right parties, be those in the @ecrgroup - such as @FratellidItalia or @Reconquete_off - or @IDParty_ - such as @AfDimEUParl or @RNational_off
This center-left commitment to "cordon sanitaire" puts @vonderleyen in a bind!
@CSpillmann EP24
At our initiative, leaders of @TheProgressives, @RenewEurope, @GreensEFA and @Left_EU are calling on all democratic European parties to reject any normalisation, cooperation or alliance with far-right and radical parties.
Our Declaration in Defence of Democracy comes in response to recent attacks against politicians and increasing acts of violence by the far right in different member states.
Full declaration ⬇️
Steph Ghislain retweeted
Avec @marietouss1 et les colisitier•es @ecologiejustice, nous avons signé le manifeste de l’@Act4AnimalsEU !
👉10 engagements pour une Europe du bien être animal
💚Fière de notre liste et de nos combats pour les droits des animaux
#VoteforAnimals
eurogroupforanimals.org/fr/v…