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The Council adopted the regulation on zootechnical and genealogical conditions for the breeding, trade in and entry into the Union of purebred breeding animals, hybrid breeding pigs and their germinal products.

The final rule also includes an additional reporting provision intended to enhance our understanding of antimicrobial new animal drug sales.

The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture established new rules that will help increase the number of agribusiness authorized to export by 300%.

This new label offers consumers a simple way to choose products from animals raised with the highest standards of animal welfare.

The Council discussed the issue of animal welfare, focusing on the results of the recent Eurobarometer public opinion survey on animal welfare.

Last year, the Dutch pork exports reached a record figure of 944 million kg.

This change would remove some of the current restrictions on imports of ruminants, breeding swine and their products from Malta.

Tönnies, Vion and Westfleisch are the three main abattoirs in Germany.

Parliament has voted several resolutions on country of origin labelling. However, the Commission has yet to make any such proposals, citing the costs of mandatory country of origin labelling to industry and predicting that consumers would not be willing to meet the additional costs.

In the pig sector, there are almost 300 approved applications for aid, and payments of €3,300 to each participant have commenced this week.