26
Feb
2024
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Detergents and surfactants (debate)
Mr President, the ENVI report improves the Commission’s proposal to bring the regulation more in line with the necessary transition to zero pollution society. However, perhaps the most significant and welcome aspect of the ENVI report is the introduction of a ban on animal testing for detergents. This is an important victory for animal rights, but let’s not forget that in the farm to fork strategy, the Commission also promised that it would propose a revision of the EU’s animal welfare legislation by the end of 2023. That never materialised. And in the Commission’s work programme for 2024, only one of the four animal welfare regulations the Commission promised to revise was even included – the one on the transport of animals. The promised proposal to transition to cage-free systems remains completely absent.