In Australia, the Federal Court has condemned a Egg producer to a unusually high penalty for having misleaded the consumer. Indeed, the condemned company was selling eggs under the name "free range" accompanied with pictures of free outdoors hens, when in facts most of the eggs were coming from hens reared in cages.
A re-definition of 'free-range' in labelling
23 January 2014
E-000655-14
Charles Tannock (ECR)
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Future of poultry farming in Croatia
15 November 2013
E-012996-13
Ruža Tomašić (ECR)
Netherlands bans beak trimming in layer hens from 2018
On June 2013, the Dutch agricultural minister Sharon Dijksma has decided to ban completely beak trimming of laying hens up from 2018. Moreover, a plea will be launched at the EU level to prohibit the practice in all Member States.
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Size of cages for laying hens
Breach of Directive 1999/74/EC on the protection of laying hens
E-004047/2013
11 April 2013
Fiona Hall (ALDE)
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