• Objectives and Mission of FAW Web Network  - (to the main Animal Welfare Portal)
• Farm Animal Welfare issues at the farm
• Farm Animal Welfare issues during transport
• Farm Animal Welfare issues at the time of slaughtering and killing
• Events
• Full text publications on-line: articles and materials
• Links

Polish legislation in force:

• Farm Animal Husbandry and Breeding Act  20th August 1997
  
  -- amended on  12th March 2004
• Ordinance   on minimum housing standards for farm animal species  2nd September 2003 - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development


-- amended on  13th September 2005
• Guidelines for the identification of farms, with particular attention to those keeping calves, pigs and laying hens, subject to animal welfare inspection  21th June 2005 - Chief Veterinary Officer
• Animal Health Protection and Infectious Disease Control Act  11th March 2004
  

European Commision about Animal Welfare at the farm:

• laying hens
• calves
• pigs

• Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development about organic farming (in Polish)
• Legislation in organic farming in Poland (in Polish)


• Presentations at the 3rd SAFO workshop on the 16th-18th September 2004 (Sustaining Animal Health and Food Safety in Organic Framing)
  • The regulation of livestock production in organic farming, chances and perspectives of Polish farmers - Wieslaw Wawiernia, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Poland
  • Natural and economic condition for the development of organic farms in Poland - Halina Jankowska-Huflejt, et al, IMUZ

Polish legislation in force:

• Ordinance on detailed veterinary requirements for the maintenance of quarantine stations, staging and reloading points, and water-change points during transport of aquacultured animals  6th April 2006 (in Polish) - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
• Ordinance on the methods and detailed conditions of transporting animals  6th October 2003 (in Polish) - Minister of Infrastructure
• Instructions on animal transport (in Polish) - Chief Veterinary Officer

Staging points in Poland and within EC:

• List of approved staging points in Poland (in Polish) - Chief Veterinary Officer
• List of approved staging points within EC - Chief Veterinary Officer

European Commission about Animal Welfare during transport:

• EU regulation on the protection of animals during transport
• EU legislation in force

Polish legislation in force:

• Ordinance on the qualifications of person licensed for professional slaughtering and on conditions and methods of animal slaughtering and killing  9th September 2004 (in Polish) - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
• Instruction on the procedures for slaugterhouse inspections with respect to animal welfare (in Polish) - Chief Veterinary Officer
• Guidelines on Humane Killing of Animals for Disease Control - World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

OIE (Office International des Epizooties) guidelines:

• Guidelines on Humane Killing of Animals for Disease Control

European Commission about animal slaughter:

• EU legislation in force
• Revision of Directive 93/119/EC on the protection of animals at the time of slaughter and killing

Federation of Veterinarians of Europe about Animal Welfare around slaughter:

• JOINT EAST AND WEST CENTRAL EUROPE, ISAE REGIONAL MEETING May 15-17, 2008 Bratislava, Slovakia
• Workshop on the Further Development of The Farm Animal Welfare, 6-9 June 2007 Stary Smokovec, Slovakia
• CARING DURING CRISIS: Animal Welfare during Pandemics and Natural Disasters, April 29 - May 1, 2007 University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
• Ethical Review of Animal Research - a training session for ethics committee members, 15-16 September 2006 r., Institute of Zoology, University of Wrocław
• 1st Caucasian Workshop on Concepts in Animal Welfare

• Committee of Agriculture and Rural Development in European Parliament: Animal welfare - the challenge of our civilization - the article entitled "Why Europe has to act on setting standards for animal welfare" published in the European Voice, Vol. 12, No. 26 on 6th of July 2006.
• Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCoFCAH)
• Community Vetrinary Emergency Team

• Adverse impact of industrial animal agriculture on the health and welfare of farmed animals (in English) - D'Silva, J., Integrative Zoology 2006, No. 1, p. 53-58 - see translation into Polish
• A user's guide to animal welfare science (in English)   - see also translation into Polish
• Animal welfare science - Working at the interface between natural and social sciences (in English) - Vonne Lund, Grahame Coleman, Stefan Gunnarsson, Michael Calvert Appleby, Katri Karkinen, Applied Animal Behaviour Science 2006, No. 97, p. 37-49   - see translation into Polish
• Behaviour and welfare in relation to pathology (in English) - Donald Maurice Broom, Applied Animal Behaviour Science 2006, No. 97, p. 73-83   - see translation into Polish
• OIE diseases control culling guidelines (in English)   - see also translation into Polish
• Chapter 6: Animal transport and behaviour (in English) in Notes on Some Topics in Applied Animal Behaviour   - see also translation into Polish

Animal welfare science

Legislation

• Animal welfare legislation in the enlarged European Union (in Polish, summary in English)
• Presentations on new EU transport legislation - Regulation (EC) 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport and related operations:

  - October 2006
  - September 2006
  - July 2006
  - June 2006
  

Cattle

• Basic animal welfare and environment protection requirements in cattle industry (in Polish)
• Dairy cows welfare during delivery period (in Polish)

Pigs

• Farm report: Animal welfare and pig housing system (in Polish)

Poultry

• Time course of changes in egg-shell quality, faecal corticosteroids and behaviour as welfare measures in laying hens
• Chicken welfare is influenced more by housing conditions than by stocking density
• Animal welfare and poloutry housing system

Horses

• Transport of equids in the light of the national and EC regulations (in Polish)
• Welfare and transport of equids in the light of the national and EC regulations (in Polish)

Fur Farming

Fur animals welfare:

• Ethology
• Housing system
• Welfare
  • Minks
  • Foxes

The Welfare of Animals Kept for Fur Production - Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Welfare, EC 2001

Fur farming links:

• Fur industry - facts
• Husbandry and breeding - Veterinary Magazine
• Protection of Farm Animals' Genetic Resources / fur animals - program of the National Research Institute of Animal Production

Fish farming

Polish legislation in force:

• Inland Fishery Act - 18 April, 1985
• Ordinance on fishing and housing conditions, breeding and harvesting of other water-living animals, 12 November, 2001 (in Polish) - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
• Water Law Act 18 July 2001

Fish welfare publications:

• Carp
• Fish farming in Poland - nature and economical review

Institutions:

• Department of Inland Fisheries

Other

• Animal welfare - goats (in Polish)

• Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW):
  
  FACULTY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE
  

  FACULTY OF ANIMAL SCIENCES
• Agricultural University in Cracow:
  
  FACULTY OF ANIMAL SCIENCE
• Agricultural University in Lublin:
  
  FACULTY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE
  

  FACULTY OF BIOLOGY AND ANIMAL BREEDING
• The August Cieszkowski Agricultural University of Poznań:
  
  FACULTY OF ANIMAL BREEDING AND BIOLOGY
• University of Agriculture in Szczecin:
  
  FACULTY OF BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY (in Polish)
• Agricultural University of Wrocław:
  
  FACULTY OF BIOLOGY AND ANIMAL SCIENCE
  

  FACULTY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

• General Veterinary Inspectorate
• The National Veterinary Research Institute
• The National Animal Husbandry Center (in Polish)
• Office of the Committee for European Integration

• Polish Society of Veterinary Science (in Polish)
• Animal Liberation (in Polish)
• Empatia Association
• The Animal Defenders Association (in Polish)
• Viva (in Polish)
• OTOZ Animals (in Polish)
• Klub Gaja
• Pegasus Foundation (Under construction)