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Questions to EURCAW (Q2E)
Scientific and technical assistance
The centre has been created in the context of the regulation 2017/625 about official controls (art. 95) to support the European Commission and member states in the applications of legislation regarding poultry and other small farm animals’ welfare.
The Centre offers scientific and technical assistance to Competent Authorities (CA), National Reference Centre (NRC), other Supporting Bodies (SB), from the EU Member States and the European Commission, regarding all aspects of welfare legislation implementation. The Centre is covering hatchery, farming, transportation and killing outside of risk assessment and risk management areas.
EURCAW-Poultry-SFA Spanish Roadshow
27.05.2026
In agreement with DG SANTE the European Animal Welfare Reference Centres will visit veterinary inspectors in the different Member States in their own countries to be able to better support their work as inspectors in the field of husbandry, transport and slaughter. Amongst the consortium members it was agreed to deliver the second EURCAW-Poultry-SFA Roadshow in Spain.
The Spanish competent Authority expressed their interest in the topic: turkey welfare from farm to fork.
On May 27 2026, 20 participants (veterinarians and competent authority representatives) from the main turkey producing regions plus seven observers from the central competent authority attended the event. Turkey outputs from the Centre were presented and case studies from the participants were discussed.
New indicator factsheet avaialble
We are pleased to share a new Indicator Factsheet focused on the use of enrichment in broiler.
Take a look: https://zenodo.org/records/20717156
See our Broiler chicken web-page here.
New Q2E answer availalble
A new 'Question to EURCAW' (Q2E) has been published on “ Broiler fasting”.
To see more, take a look at https://zenodo.org/records/20266826 and at our Question to EURCAW's subpage!