The Spanish interprofessional association for the beef industry, PROVACUNO, and two interprofessional associations representing the sheep and goat meat industry, JTT in Hungary and INTEROVIC in Spain, have announced today the programme for the II European Animal Welfare Symposium, which will take place at Sparks Meeting in Brussels on 20 September, from 9am to 4pm. The meeting, with free registration, will also be streamed, with simultaneous translation.
This extensive event features participants from leading organisations and institutions to achieve advances that lead to the maximum guarantees in animal welfare.
From 9.30 am onwards, after the institutional welcome, there will be three roundtable discussions after each of which members of the audience, attending in person and online, will be able to ask the speakers questions and discuss the issues raised.
The first roundtable discussion is entitled “Analysing the Animal Welfare Situation” and features Dr Estelle Hamelin, from the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), Miguel Ángel Higuera, from the European Platform for Animal Welfare, Carolina Cucurella, from UECBV, and Inés Ajuda from the Eurogroup For Animals, who will talk about the current situation in Europe with regard to animal welfare.
During the second roundtable discussion, entitled “From science to the table by way of certification”, Andrea Gavinelli, from Animal Welfare SANTE.G.3m, Paolo Ferrari, from the Centro Ricerche Produzioni Animal (CRPA), Laura Boyle, from the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP), and Laura Godoy, from Bureau Veritas, will be discussing different ways to guarantee livestock welfare including accredited certification.
Finally, in the third roundtable discussion, Claudio Sala, from Textile Exchange, Mar Maestre from ICF CONSULTING, Felipe Medina, from the Spanish Association of Distributors, Self-Services and Supermarkets (ASEDAS), and Luis Fernando Gosálvez, from SEPROBA, will analyse the relationship between the consumer and animal welfare: what animal welfare brings to the consumer and how the consumer can contribute to the promotion of animal welfare.
The day’s proceedings will be brought to a close by Ms. Joanna Stawowy, cabinet member of the European commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski.
Find out more at https://www.europeananimalwelfare.eu/symposium/
