EU-28: Commission Boasts EU International Animal Welfare Policy Successes

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The European Commission (EC) has an active policy of exporting its standards on animal welfare, which are anchored in the European Treaties. A published EC report offers a rare direct acknowledgement of this policy and elaborates in detail on the EC’s fifteen-year effort and success in moving the international standards on animal welfare at the multilateral level, as well as in bilateral agreements.  

EU-28: Commission Boasts EU International Animal Welfare Policy Successes

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