Animal Welfare Foundation e.V.
Budget
€612,500
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
2
1.5 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
The Animal Welfare Foundation (AWF) is based in Germany and is an independent, non-profit, and international animal welfare organisation. In order to gain credibility, no project is carried out without previous validation and the review of the existing scientific and empirical evidence and we do not publish information without evidence. Our work is based on the following ethical principles: 1) Animals are sentient beings; 2) The rights and dignity of the animals are inviolable 3) There is no distinction between animal species 4) There is no moral justification for suffering. The goal of animal welfare is to raise the status of animals, not reduce the status of human vision.
EU Legislative Interests
EU ban on imports of horsemeat from overseas EU ban on imports of the hormone PMSG from pregnant mares Farm to Fork Strategy Revision of Regulation on the protection of animals during transport Revision of Regulation on the protection of animals at the time of killing Revision of Directives laying down minimum standards for the protection of laying hens, broilers, pigs and calves
Communication Activities
- Hearings ANIT Committee - Presentations at the Intergroup for Animal Welfare - Animal Welfare Platform Member Reports: 2025.03 : The transport of animals from the EU to third countries. A Dossier by Animals´Angels and Animal Welfare Foundation 2025.03 : Systematic abuse of mares: Icelandic blood farms exposed. 2024 Dossier by Animal Welfare Foundation and Tierschutzbund Zürich 2024.10 : Transport of 69 Heifers from Germany to Türkiye_Report published by Animal Welfare Foundation and Animals´Angels 2024: Report_64-livestock Carriers_AWF_RobindesBois 2022: Contribution of assembly centres and control posts to starvation times of calves (investigations 2019-2022) 2022: Production of PMSG in South America (long term investigation 2015-2022) 2021: 78_EU_livestock_carriers_June_2021_RobindesBois_AWF_TSB-(EN) 2021: Production of PMSG in Iceland (long term investigation 2019 – 2021) 2021: Import of horsemeat from overseas (long term investigation from 2012-2021) 2020: Evidence of serious and systematic infringements of Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 (2011-2020) 2019: Long distance transport of unweaned lambs (long term investigation 2016-2019) 2018: Long distance transport of unweaned calves (long term investigation 2014-2018) 2017: Animal Welfare overboard- long distance transport by sea (long term investigation 2014-2017) 2016: Doomed Journey II- animal export to Turkey 2015: Doomed Journey I- animal export to Turkey (long term investigation 2010 – 2015)
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
www.eurogroupforanimals.org
Organisation Members
www.tierschutzbund-zuerich.ch
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.