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	Bulgarian stray dogs in imminent danger An amendment of the Animal Welfare Law is on-going to step back and allow mass killing of stray dogs Since 2008, Bulgaria was well-known for its progressive animal welfare legislation. But now, due to recent stray dogs attacks, and the mass media coverage, the nationalists party "ATAKA" has quickly prepared amendments to the Bulgarian Animal protection law. This would mean a basic roll back policy considering mass killing of stray dogs as a "normal" dog population management strategy. Such a strategy is clearly ignoring the basic animal welfare principle, laid down in Article 13 TFEU (Lisbon Treaty). In the new Bulgarian draft law, two articles on “killing” and “euthanasia” are substantially modified. [more]

"Enforcement of EU related animal welfare legislation" 12/13 June, Conference in Brussels This conference is organised by VIER PFOTEN Stiftung für Tierschutz / FOUR PAWS International and Eurogroup for Animals. More partners are: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Instituto G. Caporale Teramo (IGC), Federation of Veterinarians in Europe (FVE), Deutsche juristische Gesellschaft für Tierschutzrecht (DJGT) and Stiftung für das Tier im Recht. [more]

Enforcement of the 2013 Sow Stall ban Commission steps up pressure on Member States Recently, in an official EU press release, EU Commission has confirmed again its volunty to enforce the ban of individual sow stall and not to delay the January 1 2013 ban.Pigs are protected in the EU since 1991 the old Council Directive 91/630/EEC on the welfare of pigs. In 2001, this Directive has been amended by the Commission Directive 2001/93/EC providing minimum [more]

VIER PFOTEN is acting for stray dogs in Ukraine What happened so far After a long period of negotiation, on 3 February 2012 FOUR PAWS and the Ukrainian Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Mykola Zlochevskiy signed an agreement for a humane solution to regulate the populations of stray dogs. Mykola Zlochevskiy assured FOUR PAWS of his support for the neutering project. The neutering projects will start at the beginning of April. The mobile clinics [more]

Stray Dogs in Europe What have been done up to now? As already announced, on Wednesday, killing of stray dogs after only three days in the animal shelter has been estimated unconstitutional by the Romanian Constitutional Court. More and more, stray dogs issues are involved in the juridical and political sphere: the European Court of Human Rights, the European Parliament, National Constitutional Courts etc. How did we get there? To learn [more]

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