Press releases

The European Parliament can take action to curb antibiotic resistance in a key vote tomorrow. The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) urges MEPs to make sure farmers only give antibiotics to sick animals, not to healthy ones.

To curb antibiotic resistance farmers must only give antibiotics to sick animals, not to the healthy ones, according to an EU Parliament vote yesterday which tightens a Commission text regulating animal medicines.

Today, the European Parliament’s plenary adopted recommendations to the European Commission on the ongoing ‘Trade in Services’ (TiSA) agreement.

Three days ahead of a 31 January deadline to negotiate a new data transfer deal between the EU and the US, The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) is calling on the European Commission and the European data protection authorities to make sure they comply with the recent European Court of Justice ruling on EU data rights.