Deputies and senators agree on several measures to combat animal abuse

The text of consensus adopted Thursday, greeted by the associations, prohibits the shows with wild animals in circuses and delphinariums, and proscribes the sale of dogs and cats in the pet shop.

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Three weeks ago, an agreement seemed out of reach. Thursday, October 21, the fourteen members of the Joint Joint Commission (CMP) which examined the law proposal against animal abuse, however, voted unanimously, without abstention, a compromise that anchors several advances for animal protection in France: Prohibition of cetacean shows in the Delphinariums within five years, prohibition of wild fauna shows in itinerant circuses within seven years, prohibition of dog sales and cats in pet shops from 2024 … In view of the differences of view between senators and deputies on these three points in particular, the Upper House has been reactive to include a prohibition in the law, the CMP Agreement was the challenge.

It took hours and hours of discussion between the rapporteurs of the text at the assembly and the Senate, until very late in the night preceding the CMP, to reconcile their views and reach a consensus. The challenge for the three majority deputies on the initiative of this text – Loïc Dombreval (Alpes-Maritimes, LRM), Dimitri Houbron (North, Act) and Laëtitia Romeiro Dias (Essonne, LRM) – was to avoid Any price of departing without agreement, which, in view of the legislative timetable forced by the coming ballot, would have returned to bury all planned measures. The Rapporteur in the Senate, Anne Chain-Larric (Seine-et-Marne, LR), also wanted, “all but a disagreement. We could have turned at times. But we gave time to discuss and understand the interests of each other “.

On the side of the National Assembly as the Senate, everyone had laid his red lines. For the three co-deputy deputies, it was the fate of wild animals in circuses and delphinariums. “We wanted to make a prohibition of principle in the law for all wild animals in itinerant circuses, relates Laëtitia Romeiro Dias. The request of the Senate has been taken into account to have a necessary time in the accompaniment of professionals and to find Placement solutions for animals, hence the prohibition time of 5 to 7 years. “MPs and senators also agreed on a ban on wildlife reproduction within two years, so not grow the livestock held by the circuses.

Frame and define in the law the activity of the sanctuaries

The Delphinariums represented one of the major blocking points of the discussions between the two rooms. The proposed ban, which would come into effect five years after the promulgation of the law, would focus on shows exhibiting dolphins and orcs. At this horizon would also be prohibited the reproduction. “The only possible derogation from this detention prohibition would be in the context of scientific research programs, approved by the State, and not for self-proclaimed programs,” says M me Romeiro Dias. The Rapporteur in the Senate welcomes this compromise: “Our driver’s thread was no prohibition without solution” investment or for research, insists M me chain-larché.

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