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The Convention applies to animals bred or kept for the production of food, wool, skin or fur or for other farming purposes. It concerns in particular animals in intensive stock-farming systems.

The protection guaranteed by the Convention aims to avoid unnecessary suffering or injury, having regard to the condition of housing, food or administered care. To preserve well-being of animals, the Convention imposes on Parties the obligations to inspect the condition and state of health of animals and the technical equipment used in intensive stock-farming systems.

The Convention establishes Standing Committee which monitors its application. The Committee is responsible for the elaboration and adoption of the recommendations to the Parties, to express an advisory opinion, to facilitate a friendly settlement of any difficulty which may arise between Parties concerning the implementation of this Convention and to submit to the Committee of Ministers a report on its work and on the functioning of the Convention.

• Translations sorted by non-official languages.
• Note for information - Accession to the European Convention for the Protection of Animals kept for Farming Purposes by a State which is not a member of the Council of Europe.

• Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law - European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ)
• Biological safety - Use of animals by humans - T-AP former website.