Previous General Assemblies

November 2019

EASVO General Assembly

Brussels, Belgium

On 7th November 2019 the EASVO General Assembly took place in Brussels at the International Auditorium.

We had another busy and engaging agenda, where we received our regular updates on the work of the Food Safety Working Group, including progress on OCR implementation and the development of a paper on the circular economy, the AHL task force and the implementation of the Veterinary Medicines Regulation. We also discussed our membership fees and, although our costs are increasing, we were able to maintain our fees for 2020 but will need to keep this under review.
We were grateful that Sean Wensley (chair of the AWWG) joined us to provide an update on the work of the new group and we had a detailed discussed on the position paper on preventing pig tail biting and reducing tail docking, which we agreed to support in the FVE GA vote.
As is now the tradition, EASVO members gave interesting presentations on an audit of AW in slaughterhouses in Switzerland, the potential to use the EU Animal Health tool, Discontools, as an information resource for government vets, an update on the situation in Germany for long distance transport of animals and, finally, an update on the progress of the VetCEE sub-committee developing the Dossier of Competence for Veterinary Public Health.
We were pleased to join UEVP (practitioners) in a joint session on the current implementation of the Zoos Directive and the implications for conservation and animal health - “One Health, One Welfare, One Plan”
Finally we were delighted to see EASVO’s new website and we elected our new board for 2019-2021 - President – Jane Clark (UK); Treasurer – Conny Rossi-Broy (DE); General Secretary – Ole-Herman Tronerud (NO); Vice President – Mark McCarthy (IE); and Senior Vice President – Romano Zilli (IT) and thanked Fabien and Pavel, the outgoing VPs, for their contributions.

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June 2019

EASVO General Assembly

Bratislava, Slovakia

On 6th June 2019 the EASVO General Assembly took place in Bratislava at the Radisson Blu Hotel.

We heard about the progress on the implementation of the Official Controls Regulation, Animal Health Regulation and the work of the FVE AWWG, and we agreed to vote in favour of the 3 AW papers presented for vote at the FVE GA (end of life horses, early neutering in cats and lameness in dairy cattle).

We also agreed to vote in favour of the position paper on dry cow treatment and we were joined by UEVH (Hygienists) and the FVE and AVMA presidents for a joint session on the Wellbeing of Government Veterinarians - this included the UK's Mind Matters Initiative.

It was also really interesting to hear presentations from some of our members on their veterinary services database and risk-based Official Controls in Portugal and the successful eradication of ASF in the Czech Republic.

We then spent some time discussing the challenges that OVs face in assessing long distance (and particularly 3rd country) journey logs under Regulation (EC) 1/2005 and this generated several recommendations to the FVE board and AWWG.

And last, but not least, we heard from FEEVA’s president, Mette Uldahl, on their communications initiative for practitioners on West Nile Fever in horses.

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