Animal health requirements: non-commercial movement of pet animals

2009/0077(COD)

The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety adopted the report by Bairbre DE BRUN (GUE/NGL, UK) amending, under the first reading of the codecision procedure, the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 on the animal health requirements applicable to the non-commercial movement of pet animals.  The committee made three technical amendments in order to clarify the Commission’s drafting of the text.