Coordinated European Animal Welfare Network
Abstract
The present proposal responds to a call (SANCO 2012/10293) for bids for a grant to support a pilot project on the feasibility of a coordinated European animal welfare network. Our project will address the four main objectives of the call; briefly: establish and coordinate a network of experts; identify bottlenecks/ difficulties in implementing a few examples of EU legislation on animal welfare; develop and test knowledge transfer strategies to overcome bottlenecks; analyse and make recommendations on the feasibility and conditions for the above coordinated network. Activities towards these objectives will be carried out in 4 partly parallel Work Packages (WPs). Our choice of legislations to be addressed (Council Directives 2008/120/EC and 2007/43 for the protection of pigs and broiler chickens, respectively, and Council Regulation EC1099/2009 on protection at the time of killing), reflects the existence of clear bottlenecks in their implementation, their effects on animal welfare in a range of species and all MSs, and the development of knowledge transfer solutions that are likely to be achievable. By allowing the trialling of different types of strategy our approach is also likely to yield a wider impact. Of course, given the restricted timeframe of the project it is clearly not possible to run in-depth, long-term evaluation of the knowledge strategies developed in terms of their immediate contribution to the implementation of EU legislation. Instead, we will develop practical indicators to not only allow preliminary assessment within the project but also, more importantly, to enable future detailed evaluation of progress
keywords Animal Welfare Implementation Pig
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Project staff
Christoph Winckler
Univ.Prof. Dr.med.vet. Christoph Winckler
christoph.winckler@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93221
BOKU Project Leader
01.01.2013 - 31.12.2013
Christine Leeb
Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr.med.vet. Christine Leeb
christine.leeb@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93227
Project Staff
01.01.2013 - 31.12.2013