At the next meeting, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) approved a report on the verification of signatures of the European Civil Initiative, which calls for the cessation of animal husbandry in cages and certifies that 2550 certificates were collected.
The organizers of the European Civil Initiative seek to put an end to the inhuman treatment of animals that are kept or bred in cages.
The initiators ask the EU Commission to submit a legislative proposal prohibiting the use of cages for laying hens, rabbits, youngsters, chickens, quails, ducks and geese, sows, as well as separate boxes for calves.
The European Commission registered the citizens' initiative in September 2018, and the organizers were able to collect signatures for one year from September 11, 2018. The organizers gave 1394 signatures to the National Electoral Administration (NVI) on December 13 last year. Signatures were verified by NVI and found that 2550 signatures collected over one year were valid.
The European Citizens Initiative was created by the Lisbon Treaty and is designed to enable European Union citizens to initiate EU legislation through the European Commission.
Modern industrial livestock is recognized as one of the main factors that destroy the ecology of the planet. It produces almost 20% of the emissions of all greenhouse vapors (most of all modes of transport) and occupies vast areas of farmland, under which valuable forests are cut.
In order to succeed, Brussels College must recognize that this initiative is the responsibility of the EU, and then a year, in order to collect at least one million signatures in at least seven EU member states.
The signatures of each member state must be at least 750 times the number of members of the European Parliament (MEP), which means 15,750 signatures for Hungary.
- In the UK, animal rights activists and vegans filed a petition demanding a halt to slaughter pigs at a Yorkshire school, which is part of a lesson on meat production and food origin.
- Natalya Yurchenko, in order to provide products to a large family, right in the middle of one of the metropolitan areas contains a farm with piglets, turkeys and goats.
- LLC "Idna" from the Rivne region plans to build new cowsheds for the loose housing of cows, as well as milking parlors. This was announced by company director Vladimir Golub, so far all the cows of the farm are kept on a leash, he noted.
