20 November 2024
The fourth Reflection Board meeting between representatives of RB...
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Fourth Reflection Board meeting
Published on
20/11/2024
The fourth Reflection Board meeting between representatives of RB organisations (from the EU Platform on Animal Welfare) and the EURCAW-Poultry-SFA was held remotely via Teams on October, 22th 2024 afternoon.
In total 10 participants, five of them from the seven EU platform entities forming the RB (one participant represented two entities), two from DG SANTE (as observers), and three from EURCAW-Poultry-SFA, were connected.
This meeting was the occasion to present the...
Webinar_Welfare assessment during electrical stunning in rabbits
Published on
13/11/2024
Organized by EURCAW-Poultry-SFA.
The webinar was held via Teams.
Target audience: Official inspectors from the Competent Authorities of the EU MSs.
Attendance through invitation only.
The PDF of the presentation is available here.
The webinar recording will be available here.
Description:
Current European Union legislation on welfare of animals at the time of killing requires stunning before slaughter to render the animals unconscious,...
Fifth EURCAW-Poultry-SFA & EU Member States Competent Authorities network meeting
Published on
28/10/2024
The fifth EU-network meeting between representatives of EU MS Competent Authorities (CAs) and the EURCAW-Poultry-SFA, took place virtually on October 01-02, 2024 on 2 *0,5 days. In total 49 participants, from 22 EU MSs participated, including 29 delegates from CAs, 13 from EURCAW-Poultry-SFA, and 7 observers: one DG SANTE unit G5 representatives, three EFSA representatives, and three EFTA representatives.
This meeting was the occasion to present the Centre’s work...
National Reference Centres and Supporting Bodies Meeting 2024
Published on
26/09/2024
On 17 September the four EURCAWs hosted an online meeting with National Reference Centres (NRCs) for Animal Welfare and the Supporting Bodies (SBs) of Competent Authorities. Over 50 people attended the meeting, with representation from across EU Member States.
The meeting started with presentations from the EURCAWs, including an introduction to EURCAW Aqua (designated in January 2024), two NRCs and one SB. As the aim of the meeting is to explore ways to collaborate, workshops and interactive...
The Four EURCAWs Meeting in Thessaloniki
Published on
25/06/2024
The first in-person meeting of the four EU Reference Centres for Animal Welfare (EURCAW Pigs, Poultry and other small farmed animals, Ruminants & Equines, and Aqua) was held on 6 & 7 June in Thessaloniki, Greece. With approx. 40 participants the meeting started with a series of interesting ice-breakers, followed by interactive sessions to exchange ideas about communications and training, quality assurance and scientific outputs.
On the second day, members of each Centre were asked to...
Third Reflection Board meeting
Published on
13/12/2023
The third Reflection Board meeting between representatives of the Reflection Board (RB) organizations (from the EU Platform on Animal Welfare) and the EURCAW-Poultry-SFA, was held remotely via Teams on December, 12th 2023 afternoon.
In total 14 participants, six of them from seven EU platform entities forming the RB, and seven from the EURCAW-Poultry-SFA were connected. One representative from DG SANTE attended as an observer.
This meeting was the occasion to present the...
Fourth MEETING BETWEEN THE CENTRE AND COMPETENT AUTHORITIES REPRESENTATIVES
Published on
13/12/2023
The fourth EU-network meeting between representatives of EU MS Competent Authorities (CAs) and the EURCAW-Poultry-SFA, took place virtually on October 24-25, 2023 on 2 *0,5 days. In total 59 participants, from 22 EU MSs participated, including 39 delegates from CAs, 13 from EURCAW-Poultry-SFA, and 7 observers: two DG SANTE unit G5 representatives, three EFSA representatives, and two EFTA representatives.
This meeting was the occasion to present the Centre’s work...
EURCAW-Poultry-SFA members attended the eleven European Symposium on Poultry Welfare
Published on
11/07/2023
From 26 to 29 June 2023, the eleven European Symposium on Poultry Welfare took place in Prague (Czech Republic). Seven members of the EURCAW-Poultry-SFA participated and two members had an oral communication based on results arising from the Centre’s work.
EURCAW-Poultry-SFA members (from the left to the right: A.Contreras, F.Mocz, A.B.Riber, V.Michel, K.E.Wurtz., A.Velarde)
Session 4 – Bone quality, 27.06.23, proceeding p46
Effect of environmental enrichments...
Common EURCAW meeting for the National Reference Centres & Supporting Bodies 20 June 2023
Published on
11/07/2023
On 20 June, the 3 EURCAWs hosted the Common EURCAW meeting for the National Reference Centres (NRCs) & Supporting Bodies (SBs).
At the start of the meeting, the EURCAWs presented highlights of their current activities. The next session introduced two relatively new NRCs for Animal Welfare – Spain (established in March 2023) and Slovenia (established in January 2022). The National Centre Group for Animal Welfare (NCGAW) then led an interactive session. The NCGAW currently...
EURCAW-Poultry-SFA Dannish management meeting
Published on
03/05/2023
The first physical Centre management meeting of the year was held in Denmark in Vejle from 12 to 14 April 2023. Thirteen members of the Centre met in order to prepare the third 3 EURCAWs-NRCs/SBs meeting, the fourth CAs meeting (save the date: online meeting, 2*0.5 days during the last week of October 2023) and work together on the 2023 various tasks.