WRITTEN QUESTION E-2855/99 by Jonas Sjöstedt (GUE/NGL) to the Commission. Provisions of new law on animal feed.
Date: 2000-01-18
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: animal nutrition, competence of the Member States, national implementing measure, zoo

C 303 E/120

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

24.10.2000

(2000/C 303 E/120)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2855/99

by Jonas Sj(cid:246)stedt (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

(18 January 2000)

Subject: Provisions of new law on animal feed

Following a tightening-up of Swedish law to bring it into line with an EU directive, the country(cid:146)s zoos are
now prohibited from using uninspected meat as animal feed. Mice and chickens cannot therefore be fed to
animals in zoos. All carnivorous zoo animals are now to be fed butchered, veterinary inspected meat from
approved animal-feed factories instead,
though snakes have been granted an exemption from this
provision. However, sick eagle owls and other owls cared for by zoos also need to eat animals whole,
including the fur, for their digestion. This has, nevertheless, been deemed prohibited by the Swedish law
and the EU directive on which it is based. Does the Commission take the same view?

Answer given by Mrs Wallstr(cid:246)m on behalf of the Commission

(9 February 2000)

Under Council Directive 1999/22/EC of 29 March 1999 relating to the keeping of wild animals in zoos (1),
Member States have an obligation to ensure that all zoos maintain a high standard of animal husbandry,
with a developed programme of nutrition for the animals under their care.

The Directive in question does not however specify dietary measures in detail. These are matters for
Member States to determine.

(1) OJ L 94, 9.4.1999.

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WRITTEN QUESTION E-2858/99

by Roberta Angelilli (UEN) to the Commission

(18 January 2000)

Subject: Incomplete implementation by the Region of Lazio of the directives on environmental impact

assessment

With reference to previous questions tabled by the same Member on environmental impact assessment and
Directive 85/337/EEC (1) and subsequent amendments, can the Commission say whether the directive has
been effectively and fully transposed, in particular following the Italian Government(cid:146)s delegating powers to
the Regions, especially the Region of Lazio, or whether there have been inaccuracies and/or parts which
have not been transposed in their entirety?

In particular, the car park in Via Sacchi in Rome, already mentioned in Question E-2084/99 (2), has led to
a conflict of competences between Rome City Council, which issued the relevant authorisation without
carrying out an environmental
impact assessment, and the Region of Lazio, which did request an
environmental impact assessment.

(1) OJ L 175, 5.7.1985, p. 40.
(2) OJ C 219, 1.8.2000, p. 87.

Answer given by Mrs Wallstr(cid:246)m on behalf of the Commission

(23 February 2000)

As regards the transposition of Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of
certain public and private projects on the environment in Italy and in particular in Regione Lazio, the
Honourable Member is requested to refer to the response to her Written Question E-2084/99. The