short essays (European Union)

Question 1

Definition of regulation in the EU

Answer 1

• directly applied without the need for national measures to implement them

Question 2

definition of EU directive

Answer 2

• bind member states to the objectives to be achieved
• while leaving the national authorities the power to choose the form and means to be used

Question 3

Definition of decisions

Answer 3

• are binding in all their aspects upon those whom they are addressed
• A decision may be addressed to any or all member states, to undertakings or to individuals

Question 4

duties (powers) of the European Parliament

Answer 4

• legislative power:
  
  • consultation procedure
  • cooperation procedure
  • Co-decision (ordinary) procedure
  • parliaments assessment
• power over the budget
• supervision of the executive

Question 5

duties (work) of the European commission

Answer 5

• proposal of new legislation
• executive body
• guardians of treaties
• represents the EU on the international stage

Question 6

Duties of FVO (food and veterinary office)

Answer 6

• promote effective control systems in food safety and quality in the veterinary and plant health sectors
• check on compliance with the requirements of EU food safety, veterinary and plant health legislation within the EU and in third countries exporting to the EU
• contribute to developments of EU policy in the food safety and quality, veterinary and plant health sectors

Question 7

six examples of common veterinary legislation

Answer 7

• the single market
• import from a third country
• Animal health certificates
• animal welfare
• Animal breeding, zoo-sanitary rules
• reference laboratories

Question 8

the duties of the national central veterinary office

Answer 8

• head: chief veterinary officer
• functions:
  
  • preparation of veterinary legislation and transposition of EU directives into national law
  • supervision and coordination of the activities of the veterinary services at regional and district levels
  • decision making in emergency situations
  • the coordination and cooperation with the network of diagnostic laboratories, according to contingency plans
  • negotiations with the third countries and national representative to various international organisations (OIE, FAO, and WHO)

Question 9

Animal welfare sanctions

Answer 9

• official restrictions
• Exclusion from state compensation
• Fine: animal health/ animal welfare
• infringement
• criminal offense

Question 10

definition of cruelty to animals in criminal law

Answer 10

• any person who is engaged in the unjustified abuse or mistreatment of vertebrate animals resulting in permanent damage to the animal’s health or in the animals destruction:
  
  • or who abandons, dispossesses, or expels a domestic vertebrate animal or a dangerous animal is guilty of a misdemeanour
• the penalty for a felony shall be higher, if the criminal offence is carried out in a manner to cause undue suffering to the animal, or results in permanent damage to several Animals or in the destruction of more than one animal