65868 - Animal Protection and Veterinary Legislation

Learning outcomes

The course has the following learning outcomes:
- basic legal concepts and knowledge of the organization and operative procedures of legal and administrative apparatus at European, national and regional level;
- basic knowledge of the sanitary law with reference to the regulations on animal protection.
The student will be able to carry out the research of the actual legislation in veterinary fields and analyze it correctly.

Course contents

GENERAL CONCEPTS

Revision on national law

Characteristics of the Italian legal order; notion of legal fact, legal relation, specific law, legal order; national sources of the law; the legislative procedure; the abrogation of a law; the sources of legal cognition; general notions on the Italian Constitution, the organization and role of the National Health Service

Introduction on the European Community law and on the functioning of the European Union

Historical basis and history of the European integration; the structure of the European Union; the European institutions and their functions; the decision procedures and the adoption of the Community laws; the sources of the European Union law; the sources of European law cognition; Comitology: advisory committees, regulatory committees, regulatories committees with scrutiny, management committees; the relationship between European law and Member States legal order; the role of the Regions; the structure of a legal act. The Lisbon Treaty. The EU policy on food safety ; the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP); the UE consumer's protection policy; the role of the international organizations (The Council of Europe, WHO, FAO, WTO) and of the veterinary international organizations (WOAH, Codex Alimentarius) in food safety and CAP. The relationship between animal welfare, cross-compliance and rural development.

SPECIAL PART

 European Union Law on Food Safety

General principles and requirements of food law; the main european laws on food safety (Reg. 178/2002/EC, Reg. 852/2004/EC, Reg. 853/2004/EC, Reg. 854/2004/EC, Reg. 882/2004/EC; Reg. 183/2005/EC; Dir. 99/2002/EC); the main communication systems: RASFF, TRACES, ADNS; the national and european official control system on food and feed; EFSA: organization and purposes; Comitology: advisory committees, regulatory committees, regulatories committees with scrutiny, management committees.

UE law on animal welfare

Concept of animal welfare and animal protection; basis and implications of animal welfare; international, community and national law referring to the protection of animals kept for farming purposes; horizontal law on the protection of animals kept for farming purposes (Dir 98/58/EC); law concerning the protection of calves (Dir 91/629/EEC); law concerning the protection of pigs (Dir 91/630/EEC); law on the protection of laying hens (Dir 1999/74/EC); law on the protection of  chickens kept for meat production (Dir 2007/43/EC).

Law on the protection of animals during trasport and related operations (Reg 1/2005/EC).

Law on the protection of animals at the time of slaughter or killing (Dir 93/119/EC)

Concept of notifiable disease : notifiable infectious diseases in Italy and in the EU; European horizontal and vertical legislation; measures taken after notification; the difference between national notification and notification within the Community (D.P.R. 320/54, artt.1-16; Dir 92/119/EEC; Dir 82/894/EEC).

The law regarding the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes : Dir 86/609/EEC; Dir. 2010/63/EC; D.lvo 116/92; the role of the Ethics Committee; the conscientiousness objection (L. 413/93).

Readings/Bibliography

G. Peccolo, “Nozioni Giuridiche fondamentali”, CLEUP, Padova, 2012

G. Peccolo, “Diritto della Protezione e Produzione Animale”, CLEUP, Padova, 2016

Teaching methods

Frontal teaching and working groups

Assessment methods

Oral exam. The examination result is likely to lead the final grade in the integrated course, calculated on the basis of the arithmetical average.

Office hours

See the website of Giampaolo Peccolo