Policy insights European Network for Rural Development Animal welfare matters for the Common Agricultural Policy EU Member States’ Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) regulations now strengthen the focus on animal welfare by including it under specific objective 9: Responding to societal demands on food and health. [...] Purposes and concern welfare of livestock on the CSP support for animal welfare will go beyond farm, during transport, and at slaughter. [...] EU animal compliance, with statutory management welfare rules are being modernised to reflect the requirements and the EU’s future welfare importance that EU citizens place on the well- standards, likely to continue to be closely aligned being of livestock and the role of animal welfare in with a fundamental set of the internationally- sustainable food systems. [...] These help guide and 80% of respondents to a special Eurobarometer govern the CAP’s approach to safeguarding EU survey in 2021 on this matter said the welfare of animal welfare through CSP implementation. [...] A roadmap of rule revisions by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) sets a workplan between 2023 and 2028 for keeping welfare updated and in line with the Farm to Fork strategy’s developments.
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