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Third MEETING BETWEEN THE CENTRE AND COMPETENT AUTHORITIES REPRESENTATIVES
September, 28-29, 2022, Palma, Spain
The third EU-network meeting between representatives of EU Member States (MSs) Competent Authorities (CAs) and the EURCAW-Poultry-SFA, took place in Palma (Spain) on September, 28-29, 2022 for 1,5 days. In total 59 participants, from 19 EU MSs participated, including 26 delegates from CAs, and 14 from EURCAW-Poultry-SFA. One EFTA representative attended as an observer.
This meeting was the occasion to present the objectives of the Centre, and the work performed since the last meeting. Furthermore, it permitted to discuss potential future priority areas of work, identify possible collaboration at the national level, and identify the main needs and expectations of CAs.
The topics discussed can be found in the meeting report.
The presentations are available here.
XI European Symposium on Poultry Welfare
The next 26 to 29 June 2023, will take place the eleven European Symposium on Poultry Welfare in Prague (Czech Republic). 9 sessions are planned:
- Welfare – part of poultry production sustainability
- Welfare assessment (labelling, traceability, precision livestock farming, smart technologies)
- Main welfare challenges (feather pecking, beak trimming, keel bone, bone strength in broilers)
- Poultry killing, transport, slaughtering
- Poultry breeding and welfare, epi-genetics, transgenic, ethics, editing genome
- Alternative strategies to the killing of day-old male chicks
- Welfare of day-old chicks, early nutrition and on-farm hatching
- Poultry behaviour, cognition, enrichment
- Best practices for poultry housing and management
More information is available on the event website: https://www.espw2023.org/
Q2E webform
Are you looking for advice or support regarding official controls of poultry and small farmed animals welfare?
Your question is our challenge! Please, fill in this webform with your question and details and we will bring you in touch with the right expert.
'Questions to EURCAW (Q2E)’ is a service provided by the EU Reference Centres for Animal Welfare. EURCAW-Poultry-SFA offers it via its website. The service is open to Competent Authorities, National Reference Centre, Supporting Bodies and their representatives of EU Member States and to the EU-Commission. For EU Member States, only appointed people can submit a Q2E. If you are not appointed, please contact your Member State National Contact Point. Within its resource limits, the Centre will provide a scientifically supported answer. However, neither the Reference Centre nor the experts involved can be held responsible for its use.
The requestor shall send his question via the “Query webform” (see below, please) providing information and any documents necessary to specify and support the context of the query. You can download here the webform content. Take your time to prepare your Q2E submission to ensure better clarity for the readers. This will help us facilitate the processing of your request.
EURCAW-Poultry-SFA was designated by the European Union on 4 October 2019 through Regulation (EU) 2019/1685, in accordance with Articles 95 and 96 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.
Recent developments in animal welfare assessment
On Thursday 27 October the Welfare Quality Network held its annual seminar on animal welfare indicators. This year the meeting was jointly organized by the three EURCAWs and held in Wageningen, The Netherlands.
The target audience consisted of scientific institutes who act as support bodies to their governments on animal welfare issues. In addition, the meeting was attended by representatives from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the Dutch Competent Authority (NVWA), and industry aiming to improve welfare assessment through quality schemes. Around 40 people were physically present and 30 attended on-line.
Twelve speakers addressed the most recent developments in practical application of animal-based measures. The day started with presentations about animal welfare in the Netherlands and trademarks developed to assess animal welfare in Europe. The second half of the morning presentations were given about manual Welfare Quality assessments. The afternoon focused on research into the use of sensors for Welfare Quality assessments. For example, the use of camera’s, RFID, and other non-invasive sensor technologies.
Alexandra Contreras-Jodar had the opportunity to present the Centre's work on Relevant indicators of consciousness in broiler chicken after waterbath stunning.
Abstracts are available here.
Photo: local organizers Dionne Ruijter and Jamie Kater (EURCAW-Pigs) receive thanks for their work from Dr. Toni Dalmau (IRTA), who is the new Chair of WQN