Name: Read-out of the College meeting / press conference by European Commission Executive Vice-President Raffaele FITTO and Commissioners Christophe HANSEN and Olivér VÁRHELYI on the Livestock Strategy and the Protein Action Plan
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Read-out of the College meeting / press conference by European Commission Executive Vice-President Raffaele FITTO and Commissioners Christophe HANSEN and Olivér VÁRHELYI on the Livestock Strategy and the Protein Action Plan

7 juillet 2026

Sommaire mis à jour le 7 juil. 2026

Commissioner Várhelyi outlines his responsibility for animal health and welfare within the broader Livestock Strategy, framing both as essential to a resilient livestock sector, secure food systems and strong rural communities, and describing how recent, more frequent and severe disease outbreaks have tested this resilience despite the solid EU Animal Health Law framework.

European Commission mar. 7 juil. 2026 Commission européenne

00:01 - 00:03

Intervenant 1

Commissioner Várhelyi.

00:03 - 02:42

Intervenant 2

Thank you very much. I think you have heard already a lot from Executive Vice-President Fitto and Commissioner Hansen, so let me just focus on two areas of the proposal for which I'm responsible: animal health and animal welfare. I think that it's fair to say that these are both essential criteria for a resilient livestock sector. Because of course this is the foundation of any livestock system in the world, that we need healthy animals who are well cared for, and we need farms that are stronger, and we need food systems that are more secure and rural communities that are more resilient. And this proposal helps to achieve this.

So if you look at what we are faced with today, you see that this resilience is tested every day. Animal diseases are becoming more frequent, less predictable and much more interconnected. Over the past three years, Europe has faced serious outbreaks of diseases that were once considered to be rare in the EU. We have seen also the first-hand devastating consequences, both emotionally and economically speaking. It had a major impact on our farmers, their families, the rural communities and our entire economy.

The EU Animal Health Law gives us a solid science-based framework to protect animal health and also the single market. This is something that I think Europe is very proud about, because it creates biosecurity at a very high level, it creates high-level surveillance system and it has all the necessary tools at hand to fight these crises, like movement restrictions and regionalisation measures. And we know that these tools work, but we also see that we need to do more, because the situation on the ground evolves. Our approach therefore must evolve as well. The evaluation of the Animal Health Law, which we have just adopted yesterday, confirms that the framework is still very strong and effective, but also shows us where we must improve immediately.

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