Traduction de «Département des services vétérinaires de l'État » (Français → Anglais) :

in that connection, considers that the European Community and its Member States must actively support the proposal of the Working Group on Animal Welfare (as endorsed by the OIE Director General) to convene an international conference in the first half of 2004 bringing together Chief Veterinary Officers of OIE Member States, non-governmental organisations and professional bodies involved in the drawing up of such standards,

Finally, the gradual and ever-increasing shift of power away from veterinary departments in the Member States and towards a Commission super-service, of which they then become outposts, may serve other suspect political objectives to which we are violently opposed, but it does nothing to foster effective control or consumer protection.

Any proposal initiated by the Commission is then submitted for a vote to the Standing Veterinary Committee (SVC) composed of the Chief Veterinary Officers from Member States before adoption.

In addition, the investigations carried out by the management consultancy firm Cowi Consult into the veterinary services of the Member States revealed, in the UK in November 1992, shortcomings which are highly significant in connection with the combating of BSE (Annex 40).

–was informed by the Commission of the progress of negotiations on veterinary and plant-health equivalence agreements, in particular with the United States; –held an exchange of views, also on the basis of a report from the Permanent Representatives Committee, on the progress of the negotiations with the United States, focused mainly on the exchange of letters between Mr FISCHLER and Mr GLICKMAN, as the detailed text of the agreement was still being drafted at technical level; –took note of the positions adopted in this respect by the various Member States and of the detailed examination in this connection carried out by the Chief Ve ...[+++]terinary Officers; –particularly emphasized the importance attributed to recognition by the United States of the regionalization principle with regard to health status, and expressed its concern at the situation in the field of trade in poultrymeat; –took note of the initiatives that the Commission intended to take in order to find a satisfactory solution to these two issues; –agreed to follow developments in the situation closely and to return to this matter at a later stage.

POSEIDOM constitutes a completely innovatory approach making it possible to adapt the various Community policies to the overseas departments. Implementing regulations are about to be adopted following intense discussions with the French Government, the regional authorities and the department administrations. The Commission's various departments have recently agreed on an important agricultural regulation containing measures covering the supply of cereals in the overseas departments, aid for animal feed, aid for the supply of breeding stock in the sheep, pig and goat sectors, aid for the improvement of beef production, measures in the vet ...[+++]erinary and plant-health fields to take account of the climate specific to the overseas departments, and measures aimed at the development of fruit, vegetables, plants and flowers.