ANIMAL DISEASE LAW FORMALLY APPROVED BY EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE
February 1st, 2016
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s agriculture and rural development committee has backed proposed measures to prevent and stop outbreaks of animal diseases, including avian flu and African swine fever. This new European Union (EU) regulation had been informally agreed by members of the parliament (MEPs) and the EU Council of Ministers in June 2015, but have now been formally approved by this influential committee, at a meeting yesterday (Tuesday February 23).
“The draft EU law, on diseases that are transmissible among animals and potentially to humans too, will put ...
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