About the group
Established in 2024, within the EU Platform on Animal Welfare, the new sub-group on animal welfare policy indicators will help the Commission to identify meaningful indicators in line with EU animal welfare policy objectives and the corresponding methodology to collect, consolidate and interpret them for policy purposes.
The subgroup will work on policy indicators for the keeping of the main farmed species (cattle, pigs, sheep and goats, poultry, rabbits and fish) and regarding the most critical husbandry systems and practices affecting their welfare through nutrition and diet, housing, health or behavioral needs. The mandate does not cover the transport or the killing of animals.
The composition of the working group is available in the Register of the Commission expert groups.