Current status: Voted
Please find here:
- Current version of the AHL
- VIER PFOTEN Press Release and Questions&Answers
- EU Commission General Q&A
- EU Parliament Summary of the Animal Health Law regarding animal welfare (Animal Health Law_main achievements_final) and regarding stray animals (AH law and stray animals)
Rapporteurs
Rapporteur: MEP Marit Paulsen
Shadow Rapporteurs (until June 2014):
Committee for Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI): MEP Elisabeth Jeggle
Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI): MEP Kartika Liotard
Committee for Fisheries (PECH): MEP Isabella Lövin
Shadow Rapporteurs (up from June 2014):
Herbert Dorfmann (EPP,IT),
Michela Giuffrida (S&D, IT),
Janusz Wojciechowski (ECR, PL),
Alyn Smith (Greens/EFA, UK)
Anja Hazekamp (GUE/NGL, NL)
Marco Zullo (EFDD, IT)
Time Schedule and legislative process
(follow the proceeding on http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?lang=en&reference=2013/0136(COD))
2010: very first draft proposal
6.05.2013 Legislative proposal for a single, comprehensive animal health law to replace the complicated animal health rules currently in place
12.06.2013 AGRI Committee appointed as responsible committee with MEP Paulsen as rapporteur (PECH and ENVI Committees have been appointed for opinion)
30.10.2013 MEP Paulsen – Draft Report of AGRI
5-9.12.2013 Amendments tabled in AGRI committee (785 Amendments)
27.01.2014 Opinion of the ENVI Committee
30.01.2014 Opinion of the PECH Committee
15.04.2014 Debate in the EU Parliament / plenary 1st reading / Vote Please find here the text voted by the plenary: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P7-TA-2014-0381
03.09.2014 Opening of the trialogue
01.06.2015 end of the Trilogue with a Press Conference and an EU Official press Release
02.12.2015 and 17.12.2015 Position of the Council after first reading
23/25.02.2016 Recommendation of the Council for second reading