08/07/2026 (Agence Europe) – The MEPs behind the motion for a resolution challenging the European Commission delegated regulation on the rules governing the movement of animals exposed to bluetongue and epizootic haemorrhagic disease withdrew their objection ahead of the plenary vote scheduled for Wednesday 8 July. The motion had been tabled on 1 July by a group of around forty MEPs, mainly from the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR), including Jessika van Leeuwen, Carlo Fidanza and Bert-Jan Ruissen. The signatories considered that the Commission text risked imposing disproportionate restrictions on animal movements, owing to the absence of vaccines covering all serotypes in circulation. The authors called for the measures to be revised in order to ensure that they were more proportionate, risk-based, and adapted to the epidemiological situation of bluetongue, which is now regarded as endemic in a large part of the EU. (LC)