Annual report Council on animal affairs (RDA) 2016

The Council on Animal Affairs (RDA) has had a particularly productive year. We have been working on the intention expressed following the death of our former chair, Frauke Ohl, in January 2016: ‘We will press on with the efforts made under her leadership’.

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Advisory reports

Those efforts have resulted in advisory reports on the use of antibiotics in livestock farming, breeding and reproductive technologies, production animals, stray cats and means used to capture and kill birds. All these advisory reports have had an influence on policy, the House of Representatives and the social actors concerned.