Safeguard for Agricultural Varieties in Europe

SAVE-Foundation

SAVE Foundation (Safeguard for Agricultural Varieties in Europe) is an International NGO, founded in 1993 as a European umbrella organisation.

Lobbying Activity

Response to Rules for establishments keeping terrestrial animals and hatcheries and their traceability

20 May 2019

We strongly plea for an exception for the registration of every location where birds are kept as is formulated in the delegated act and also for the obligations of record keeping by the operators. We plea to leave it to the member states to formulate in contingency plans risk-based measures for non-commercial bird keepers. There are small differences between member states in today contingency plans who are related to the structure of commercial and non-commercial keeping and breeding of birds in their country. It is important that these flexibility for member states can be continued.
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