Humane World for Animals

Humane World for Animals welcomes the European Commissions initiative to develop a European Biotech Act as part of the broader Strategy for European Life Sciences. Among the identified challenges, the Act highlights the medical and pharmaceutical sector, as a key area requiring greater efforts to enhance EU competitiveness and sustainability.

Humane World for Animals welcomes the opportunity to submit comments on the call for evidence concerning the European strategy on research and technology infrastructures. Research and technology infrastructures are key enablers of innovation, providing the facilities, services, and capabilities needed to conduct cutting-edge research, develop and validate new technologies, and accelerate their adoption.

Humane World for Animals would like to thank the European Commission for the opportunity to provide feedback on the European Union's Biocidal Product Regulation, EU BPR (Regulation (EC) 528/2012). Our organisation aims to tackle the root causes of animal cruelty and suffering to create permanent change, and advocate for a shift toward science-driven, non-animal safety assessment strategies for chemical management…

Humane World for Animals Europe warmly welcomes this opportunity to contribute to the European Commissions Call for Evidence regarding the Fur Free Europe European Citizens Initiative. We unequivocally support the scenario outlined in Option 2, which proposes a ban, after a transition period, on the farming in the EU of mink, foxes, raccoon dogs, and/or chinchillas for their fur and a ban on the placing on the EU…

HSI welcomes efforts to improve and enhance the safety assessment of chemicals across EU legislation with the One Substance, One Assessment (OSOA) approach. We appreciate the ambition to centralize safety assessment activities for multiple regulatory frameworks within the European Chemicals Agency.

Humane World for Animals welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Commissions adopted act for a Regulation establishing the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). We strongly support the proposals objective to improve and streamline the Agencys governance and create a more sustainable and predictable financial system.

Humane Society International/Europe (HSI) welcomes this opportunity to respond to the call for evidence with regard to the revision of EU rules on textile labelling. As an animal protection organisation, our focus will be primarily on the failure of Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 on fibre names and related labelling and marking of the fibre composition of textile products to adequately protect consumers, particularly…

Humane World for Animals appreciates the opportunity to provide feedback on the draft text of the Act on Active Substances. We acknowledge the efforts made to integrate scientific advances and updated procedures, such as the newly added Article 10 under Section 5 for active substances, that represent important steps toward reducing reliance on animal testing.