Excellent overview of what happened, thank you. The Commission legislative proposals were ready last year, well prepared by DG SANTE. In view of EP elections, and designation of the Commission President, there were put in the fridge, most likely under order of the Cabinet if the now redesignated Commission President. Fears of farmers anger, cost of new investments, risk of food price rise have stopped everything but the proposal on animal transport. The key issue of the cage ban is the one which would improve animal welfare and which corresponds to citizen concern. But nobody knows when it will come back on the agenda…
Excellent overview of what happened, thank you. The Commission legislative proposals were ready last year, well prepared by DG SANTE. In view of EP elections, and designation of the Commission President, there were put in the fridge, most likely under order of the Cabinet if the now redesignated Commission President. Fears of farmers anger, cost of new investments, risk of food price rise have stopped everything but the proposal on animal transport. The key issue of the cage ban is the one which would improve animal welfare and which corresponds to citizen concern. But nobody knows when it will come back on the agenda…