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Platform meetings

2025

31st March – Sixteenth meeting of the Platform - Hybrid format

Next week, DG SANTE will host the 16th meeting of the EU Platform on Animal Welfare, the first under this new College. Commissioner Várhelyi will deliver a speech to outline the priorities for his mandate.

The meeting will include a presentation of the Vision for Agriculture and Food, and launch the consultations and exchanges with stakeholders, in particular farmers, the food chain and civil society, that will guide the Commission in the preparation of proposals on the revision of the existing animal welfare legislation, as announced in that Vision. For this meeting, two round tables will focus on priorities for modernising animal welfare legislation for poultry farming and on digitalisation and welfare indicators for poultry. Other sectors will be discussed in subsequent meetings.

In addition, the meeting’s agenda includes a state of play on the European Parliament’s work on the two animal welfare legislative proposals (on the protection of animals during transport and the welfare of dogs and cats), and an overview by the Polish Presidency on the ongoing work in the Council of the EU on the legislative proposal on transport. Full agenda is available below.

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