Europeans care about animals, and surveys show that citizens want to see a higher level of animal protection in EU legislation.
 
Despite that, economic interests too often prevail over citizen demands and even over the demands of the European Parliament, which has repeatedly demanded that legislative changes to increase animal protection in the European Union should be introduced. 
 
To limit such problems, some Member States have taken the responsibility for animal welfare away from the competences of the Ministry of Agriculture. We welcome such decisions and hope that they will be adopted in all Member States.
 
At the EU level, the Commissioner for Health and Food Safety is responsible for animal welfare, but this competence is not currently recognised in this job title.
 
We propose to highlight the importance of this topic and increase accountability by including explicitly ‘Animal Welfare’ into the job title of the relevant Commissioner. 
In any case, this competence should continue to be kept separated from the ones of the Commissioner for Agriculture even if in the future there will be changes in the roles of the Commissioners.
 
Animal protection in the EU will be improved if this responsibility is emphasised and the relevant Commissioner is explicitly called upon to adopt a more proactive and progressive attitude on animal welfare on behalf of the whole European Commission, thus responding to the passionate call of European citizens.

Europeans care about animals. EU institutions should too.

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