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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12765

20 July 2021
SECTORAL POLICIES / Animal health
Proposed ban on cages for farmed animals does not meet with unanimity in EU Council
Brussels, 19/07/2021 (Agence Europe)

A proposal to ban the use of cages in animal husbandry is causing problems for several EU agriculture ministers, a debate in the EU Council revealed on Monday 19 July.

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides promised at the Agriculture Council that support will be given to farmers to help them stop keeping animals in cages.

The European Commission has committed to presenting a legislative proposal by the end of 2023 to phase out and ban the use of cage systems for all farmed animals (see...

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