PoultryWorld: European Commission registers "End the Cage Age" initiative07-09-2018
Animal welfare organisations received a boost to their “End the Cage Age” campaign after the European Commission agreed to formally register its initiative. The decision by the EC’s College of Commissioners concerns only the legal admissibility of the proposal and the Commission says it has not analysed the substance of the European Citizens’ Initiative as yet. Signatures from 7 EU states needed The End the Cage campaign aims to prohibit the use of cages for:
The initiative is being coordinated by Compassion in World Farming, which will develop campaign materials and manage the initiative over the next year. EU nations ranked for cage use It has ranked EU nations in accordance with their use of cages, placing Sweden and Luxembourg at the top of the list, praising them for outlawing cages for sows, not having any significant rabbit farming and having few or no hens caged. At the other end of the spectrum are: Bulgaria, European Citizens’ Initiatives were introduced with the Lisbon Treaty and launched as an agenda-setting tool in the hands of citizens in April 2012. |