Ref. Ares(2020)2564755 - 15/05/2020
Ref. Ares(2021)2728254 - 23/04/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY
Directorate G – Crisis management in food, animals and plants
Director
Brussels,
SANTE G2/
(2020)2709329
Subject: Stakeholder Advisory Board for the activities of the EU Reference Centre
focusing on the welfare of pigs - EURCAW-Pigs
Dear Madam, dear Sir,
The Commission designated a first European Union reference centre for animal welfare
in October 2018. The activities of this reference centre aim at improving the enforcement
of EU legislation on welfare of pigs, including during transport and at the time of killing1.
I would appreciate it, if you would nominate one person and a substitute from your
organisation to participate in the Stakeholder Advisory Board for this reference centre.
The Stakeholder Advisory Board will be set up in accordance with the reference centre’s
work programme to provide advice regarding its functioning and future activities. The
aim is to receive practical and strategic advice on animal welfare indicators, on
coordinated assistance and on training courses, to gather information and to receive
feedback on the current (2019-2020) and on the next work programmes (2021-2022).
In 2020, the reference centre will conduct two one-day meetings with the Stakeholder
Advisory Board. Due to the Covid-19-situation, at least the first meeting will be
organised as a video conference. The second will take place in Brussels, if possible. The
language of the meetings and of the documents produced will be English. In the case of a
physical meeting, the reference centre will reimburse travel and accommodation expenses
of the invited members for the participation in the meeting.
1
More information on this reference centre is available on its website:
https://www.eurcaw.eu/en/eurcaw-pigs.htm
Members of the EU Platform on Animal Welfare
As listed in the attachment
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Please send details of the experts nominated by your organisation for the Stakeholder
Advisory Board to the reference centre
by 20 May 2020. Upon confirmation, the experts
will receive more information on the application procedure and logistic details. The
contact points of the reference centre are
,
@wur.nl), and
@wur.nl).
The expertise and participation of your organisation in the Advisory Board is important
to us.
Yours faithfully,
Bernard Van Goethem
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