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Questions to EURCAW (Q2E)
Scientific and technical assistance
The centre has been created in the context of the regulation 2017/625 about official controls (art. 95) to support the European Commission and member states in the applications of legislation regarding poultry and other small farm animals’ welfare.
The Centre offers scientific and technical assistance to Competent Authorities (CA), National Reference Centre (NRC), other Supporting Bodies (SB), from the EU Member States and the European Commission, regarding all aspects of welfare legislation implementation. The Centre is covering hatchery, farming, transportation and killing outside of risk assessment and risk management areas.
On-farm hatching to improve broiler welfare from the start
New Good Practice Factsheet
A new Good Practice Factsheet is online about on-farm hatching to improve broiler welfare from the start.
In a commercial hatchery, broiler chicks hatch within a period of 24-48 hours in a hatcher. During this time, usually no water or feed is available. Only once the hatching phase is over, all the chicks are removed from the hatcher, whereafter they go through a range of hatchery procedures before they are transported to the barns for rearing. An alternative to this, is hatching on-farm, i.e., within the barn. This way, the chicks have immediately access to light, water and feed after hatch, while hatchery procedures, transport and unloading are avoided.
Take a look here!
For more information see the broiler chicken good practice welfare webpage.
Sixth EU-network meeting
The sixth EU-network meeting between representatives of Competent Authorities and the EURCAW-Poultry-SFA, with the participation of one DG SANTE unit G5 representative, one EFSA representative and two EFTA representatives as observers, took place physically at Anses headquarters in Maisons-Alfort, France in October 2025, 01-02, during 2*0.5 days.
In total 35 participants, from 17 EU Member States (MSs) participated, including 22 delegates from EU MSs.
Participants took the opportunity to network during the ice breakers and social activities (visit of the Fragonard Museum followed by a join dinner) and exchange on various subject during the World Café and the “Eat & meet” sessions. Four participants took the opportunity to present/discuss their topics of interest during the plenary session.
Report of the event here.
Link to the presentations pdf: link.