Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

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Animal Welfare Comprehensive Plan

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Animal Welfare Comprehensive Plan (2020~2024)


Vision
  • Protect animals and welfare by upgrading animal protection and welfare measures and building infrastructure

Objective
  • Promote consensus on animal protection and welfare
  • Make healthy pet animal business
  • Reduce abandoned animals and promote re-adoption
  • Improve farm animal welfare from breeding to distribution
  • Promote ethics of animal testing with strengthened Animal Testing Ethics Committee
  • Build animal protection and welfare governance

Main priorities
  • Raise awareness on animal protection and welfare
    • ① Expand mandatory training on animal protection and welfare
    • ② Build system to prevent dog-bite accidents
    • ③ Expand scope of animal abuse and strengthen punishment
    • ④ Improve and promote animal registration system
  • Strengthen pet animal business management
    • ① Improve pet animal production and distribution environments
    • ② Eradicate illegal business
    • ③ Strengthen traceability management of pet animals
    • ④ Improve quality of service related to pet animals
  • Improve protection for abandoned or abused animals
    • ① Build private protection facility management system
    • ② Improve facility and personnel criteria of local governments’ animal protection centers
    • ③ Improve rescue system for abandoned or abused animals
    • ④ Strengthen capacity for disaster response
    liImprove farm animal welfare
    • ① Improve animal welfare criteria at breeding stage
    • ② Elaborate on animal protection criteria at transport or slaughter stage
    • ③ Expand mandatory training on animal welfare for livestock farms and strengthen monitoring
    • ④ Upgrade animal welfare livestock certification
    • ⑤ Set guidelines for the welfare of horses and animals for festival
  • Improve ethics of animal testing
    • ① Strengthen deliberation and supervision of Animal Testing Ethics Committee
    • ② Strengthen obligations and punishment of animal testing agencies
    • ③ Improve animal testing management
    • ④ Build ethical animal testing information distribution system
  • Build animal protection and welfare governance
    • ① Strengthen policy deliberation function of Animal Welfare Committee
    • ② Operate animal protection, welfare and R&D
    • ③ Improve animal protection, welfare statistics and survey
    • ④ Improve local governments’ animal protection and welfare policy
    • ⑤ Establish agencies specialized in animal protection and welfare