Traduction de «chien d'entraînement » (Français → Anglais) :

A. whereas every year, 500 000 greyhounds take part in traditional hare coursing in Spain; of these, about 60 000 are killed at the end of the hunting season; whereas, from the moment they are born, the dogs are subjected to inhumane training methods and constant ill-treatment and live in crowded conditions in holes dug out of the ground and covered with tin sheeting; whereas, when a dog reaches a certain age, loses its agility or can no longer have pups, it is starved to death, abandoned with its legs broken, or killed;

Second, in terms of infractions, in part V. I, in proposed sections 182.2 and those that follow, all activities related to effective hunting practices, including hunting with a dog, training and activities with hunting dogs organized by the various organizations, and any other activity in the normal context of the development of various breeds of dogs must be excluded.

(12) In order to make a clear distinction between the rules that apply to movements for non-commercial purposes and to trade in and imports into the Union from third countries of dogs, cats and ferrets covered by the animal health requirements of Directive 92/65/EEC, this Regulation should not only define a pet animal but also the non-commercial movement of such animals as a movement which does not, either directly or indirectly, involve or aim at a financial gain or a transfer of ownership.

Assistance dogs are trained to obey exclusively the commands of the owner.

In the United Kingdom, we still only have two dogs – in fact they are still in training – to check imports, compared with the 3 000 people in the United States to cover illegal imports.

President Prodi, Margot Wallström and I are convinced that we need to find a more systematic way of developing a European intervention strategy, which is based on existing mechanisms in each country, on specialised units, such as fire brigades, vaccination and civil protection teams, mountain rescue dog teams and many more. Members of these units, whilst staying in their own countries, would undergo a common course of training. If needed, they could be mobilised, both within the European Union, as we have seen with this storm and the earthquake in Greece, and outside the Union, as happened in the cases of Turkey and South and Central Ame ...[+++]rica, following the tragic events that have taken place there.