The committee of inquiry ANIT on alleged contraventions and maladministration in animal transport will primarily investigate the alleged failure of the Commission and of member states to effectively enforce numerous EU rules related to animal transport within the EU and beyond its borders.

The committee should investigate alleged violations in the application of European Union law on the protection of animals during transport - and related operations within and outside the EU, including by air, road, rail and sea.

The constituent meeting will take place on Wednesday, 23 September 2020.

ANIT - Committee of inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport

Oliver VARHELYI, Europen Commissioner meets with Anita DEMETRIOU, Speaker of the Cyprus House of Representatives

ANIT - Press conference on animal welfare during transport

ANIT Committee

Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport

ANIT

ANIT Committee - Public Hearing on Recommendations for the Future

ANIT Committee - Public hearing  on Alternatives to long-distance live animal transport and farmers' experience of the shift to alternatives

ANIT Committee - Exchange of views with Emmanuelle SOUBEYRAN, French Deputy Director of Food and Chief Veterinary Officer

ANIT Committee - Exchange of views with Lajos BOGNAR, Hungarian Chief Veterinary Officer and Deputy State Secretary for Food Chain Control

ANIT Committee - Exchange of views with Mr Joee PODGORSEK, Slovenian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, on the priorities of the Slovenian Presidency

ANIT Committee - Exchange of views with Lithuanian Deputy Director of the State Food and Veterinary Service

ANIT Committee - Investigation of alleged contraventions and maladministration in the application of Union law in relation to the protection of animals during transport within and outside the Union.

ANIT Committee - Public Hearing on Transport of species (poultry, rabbits) inadequately covered by Regulation 1/2005 and remaining vulnerable categories of animals (gestating, end-of-production animals)

Animal welfare - End of cage - Stockshots

ANIT Committee meeting

ANIT Committee - Public hearing on Responsibilities of transport operators and other private stakeholders

ANIT Committee - Public hearing on ' Transport of Live Animals to Third Countries '

Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport - ANIT - Public hearing on Approval, controls and data

ANIT - EP Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport - Public hearing on Enforcement of Regulation 01/2005 by the Member States and the Commission

Press conference by Daniel BUDA (EPP, RO), and Isabel CARVALHAIS (S&D, PT), co-rapporteurs, following the vote by ANIT Members on the draft report and the draft recommendation on the protection of animals during transport within and outside the Union. 1233 amendments have been tabled and many compromises have been reached.

Press conference by Daniel BUDA (EPP, RO), and Isabel CARVALHAIS (S&D, PT), co-rapporteurs on Animal welfare during transport - Parliament's recommendations

Throughout the EU, millions of animals are reared in cages, in conditions that seriously harm their welfare. A European Citizens' Initiative, 'End the Cage Age', calls on the European Commission to end the practice of keeping animals in cages and to propose legislation to prohibit their use.The Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport was set up in June 2020 to investigate alleged violations in the application of European Union law on the protection of animals during transport and related operations within and outside the EU, including by air, road, rail and sea. This infoclip illustrates: Farm Animal welfare - wellbeing and transport.

Infoclip: Farm Animal welfare - wellbeing and transport

The Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport hold a public hearing with experts on the transport of live animals to third countries. Exchange of views with Constança CARVALHO, PATAV (Anti-Transport Platform for Live Animals), Péter HENCZ, Managing director, HUNLAND Trans Kft, Lorène JACQUET, Campaigns and Advocacy Manager, Fondation Brigitte Bardot and Heinz OSTERLOH, German Cattle and Meat Trade Association and statement by Tilly METZ (Greens/EFA, LU), ANIT Chair.

Transport of live animals to third countries: extracts from the public hearing and statement by Tilly METZ (Greens/EFA, LU), ANIT Chair - ANIT Committee

The Special Committees on Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the EU (INGE), on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA), on Beating Cancer (BECA) as well as the Subcommittee on Tax Matters (FISC) and the Committee of Inquiry on animal transport (ANIT) hold their constitutive meetings and elect their chairs and vice-chairs in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Constitutive meeting of 5 new Special Committees - Inquiry on animal transport (ANIT): illustrative shots and statement by Tilly METZ (Greens/EFA,LU), elected Chair

Formal hearings of commissioners-designate were introduced as a result of the Maastricht Treaty. The first Commission to be subject to this new procedure was the Santer Commission in 1995. Anita GRADIN, Commissioner-designate for Immigration, Justice & Home Affairs, Financial Control, Anti-fraud and Relations with the European Ombudsman, appears before the parliamentary committee in his prospective fields of responsibility.

Santer Commission: hearing of Anita GRADIN, Commissioner-designate for Immigration, Justice & Home Affairs, Financial Control, Anti-fraud and Relations with the European Ombudsman

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