European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare Olivér Várhelyi promised on Monday 31 March at the meeting of the EU Platform on Animal Welfare that he would present proposals to revise existing legislation, including “phasing out cages, taking a sector-by-sector approach”.
He recalled that the European Commission had responded positively to the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) on Ending the Cage Age - “and we are working on how to implement it” (see EUROPE B13550A15).