Press Release: Animal health law: Agriculture Committee backs informal deal with the Council

The European Parliament's agriculture committee approved on 17 June 2015 the informal deal on a draft law regarding transmissible animal diseases, negotiated by the committee with the Council of the European Parliament and the European Commission.

The law aims at merging and updating many scattered items of old legislation, so as to help prevent and halt new outbreaks of animal diseases such as avian flu or African swine fever and keep pace with scientific progress.

The agreed text still needed the formal approval of the Council before it comes back to the agriculture committee and later to the EP plenary for a general vote.

ESO: Background information: The EU institutions provisionally agree on animal health measures http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-the-eu-institutions-provisionally-agree-on-animal-health-measures/

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