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The code of animal welfare adopted Thursday, July 19 by the Walloon government consists of 19 chapters and 109 articles. It imposes in particular a license to hold an animal.
The Walloon government definitively adopted Thursday, July 19, the Code of the animal well-being which aims at ensuring the protection and the well-being of the animals, taking into account their needs physiological and ethological as well as their roles in society and the environment, reports RTL.Be.
The code was carried by the regional minister Carlo Di Antonio. It deals with the detention of animals, prohibited practices and authorized interventions on them. But also of their trade, their transport and their introduction in Wallonia, of their killing, the experiments practiced on them as well as the control, the research, the observation, the pursuit, the repression and the measures
The animal as a fragile being
As a result of the entry into force of the 12 chapters and 109 articles which constitute this code of which the first article establishes "the animal as a fragile being", it will now be required, obtaining a license to hold an animal. Abandonment, neglect and abuse will also be prohibited. Subject to the adoption of the text by the Parliament of Wallonia, the most serious cases of abuse will be recorded as a criminal act .
In addition, it will also be prohibited to organize fights or drills. animal shooting. Also, kermesse racetracks will be banned.
Finally, animal abuse will be severely punished in Wallonia, the criminal nature of the facts may be retained for the most serious cases of abuse. The text must still be submitted to the vote of the Parliament of Wallonia before its entry into force.
With this, the identification and registration of dogs and cats will be mandatory and the cost will be donated to a Protection Fund against abandonment and animal abuse to benefit shelters.
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