The admission comes in the Commission’s extensive legislative review published on Tuesday.
Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) This comes a month before the key upcoming meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP19) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) – held in Panama from 14 – 25 November.
In its review the Commission noted that “there is still a sub-optimal level of welfare of animals in the EU.” In particular, “the current targeted legislation still allows the keeping of animals in cages or other confined housing systems that restrict significantly their movements and hamper their welfare.”
It also said that regarding “the killing of fish, some processes are pointed out to be particularly inhumane.
