Licence Launch For Poultry Export
EU - Companies importing and exporting cooked and partially prepared poultry from Brazil and Thailand will be required to have licences from 1 July, otherwise they will have to pay full duty.

New Technical Manager For Central / Eastern Europe
EU - Patrick van Trijp has joined Cobb as technical manager responsible for supporting Cobb Germany, franchise distributor for central and eastern Europe and Broiler Budoshego, franchise distributor in Russia.

EU-Compound Feed Production In Decline
EU - According to the AllAboutFeed website, in 2006, the compound feed production for the EU-25 reached 143.2 million tonnes (mt), which is 0.2% below the figure for 2005 (143.5 mt). The ten new EU member states account for around 16.0 mt.

EU Member States May Lift Ban On Chinese Poultry Imports
EU – The European Commission will ask every European Union member states to lift the ban on Chinese processed poultry imports, it was revealed yesterday.

Europe To Streamline Farm Policy
LUXEMBOURG - The European Union has decided to strip dozens of layers of red tape from its vast farm policy, aiming to simplify the lives of farmers producing everything from poultry, eggs and cereals to potatoes.

Call For Review Of Ban On Use Of Animal Remains In Feed
EU - A review on animal remains in farm feed is being called for by the European Union’s advisory Economic and Social Committee.

A Different Perspective Of Newcastle Disease
EU - This is an Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Animal Health and Animal Welfare regarding a request from the European Commission to review Newcastle disease focusing on vaccination worldwide in order to determine its optimal use for disease control...

Disposal Of Animal Carcasses And The Use Of Animal By-Products
EU - Following an article in today's London Times newspaper ('Food safety fears over animals fed to animals'), the EESC released the following statement.

Food Safety Fears Over Animals Fed To Animals
EU - Tests to allow the remains of animals to be reintroduced into farm feed for the first time since the BSE crisis are being carried out by European scientists, The Times has learnt.

EU Agrees New Rules To Improve Welfare Of Chickens
EU - Farming ministers have agreed new rules to improve the welfare of chickens across Europe.

Animal Welfare on the Farm - Laying hens
EU - Council Directive 1999/74/EC, adopted in 1999, distinguishes three types of rearing systems for laying hens:

Producers Squawk As EU Backs Bigger Chicken Pens
EU - European Union agriculture ministers have approved a law to guarantee minimum welfare standards for chickens reared in pens for meat, a regulation European poultry producers say will increase costs.

EU Poultry Labelling Plans Dumped
EU - Plans for a labelling scheme for poultry that meets higher EU standards have been dumped because of member countries’ opposition.

'Salmonella risk' in chicken flocks
EU - European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a survey on the levels of Salmonella detected in broiler flocks (chickens reared for meat) across the European Union in 2005-6.

Europeans say they are willing to pay for better animal welfare
EU - Animal welfare ranks high on the priority list of the European citizens and they are willing to make an extra effort to buy animal welfare friendly products, even if this means changing where they shop or paying more for goods, according to a Eurobarometer...