The new EU Health commissioner, Androula Vassiliou, has no doubts about her department’s decision on conventional laying cages and will be sticking to the 2012 execution date for the conventional cage ban.
Her spokeswoman Nina Papadoulaki made it clear to Poultry World that there would be no extra time for EU egg producers to convert to alternative systems. Derogations would not be needed and the manufacture, delivery and installation of alternative systems would not be a problem. This is in response to the sector’s claims there is insufficient time to make the switch before the deadline.
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The problems [lack of progress on adopting alternative systems], according to Mrs Vassiliou’s office, had been created by egg industry leaders who confused and raised false expectations among egg producers that the 2012 ban was still up for review. The obligations had been clear since 1999 and the Directive did not foresee any further changes.
Lack of Thought for the Day from the Egg Industry on the EU Ban
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