Rapporteur Stefan Eck (GUE/NGL, Germany) hopes that the European Parliament will, in Strasbourg on Tuesday 14 March, adopt the amendment that he, along with 75 other MEPs put down calling on the Commission to bring forward, within an appropriate timeframe, a legislative proposal on minimum standards for the protection of farmed rabbits (see EUROPE 11711). It is, however, unlikely that the amendment will be passed.
Eck, rapporteur on the protection of farmed rabbits, told EUROPE that he would...