The EU platform on the welfare of farmed animals is not a forum for discussing new EU legislation: its goal is to work towards improved implementation of existing provisions, stated European Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis at the inaugural meeting of the platform in Brussels on Tuesday 6 June (see EUROPE 11801).
The commissioner told the members of the platform that “many non-legislative actions” could be put in place “which are likely to deliver concrete...