1. Italian Ministry’s action plan to avoid tail docking
Italian Ministry’s action plan to avoid tail docking CIWF’s perspective
Annamaria Pisapia
Head of Italy and Southern European Coordinator
Compassion in World Farming
Dublin, 28 November 2018

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3. All animals should have a life worth living
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4. largely widespread in Italy
Routine tail docking
largely widespread in Italy
Generally, poor welfare conditions in Italian pig farms

5. Exposure by NGO’s CIWF’s «I am worthy», 2013
several other investigations done by other organisations

6. Commission’s inspection and report
2017
Commission’s inspection and report

7. February 2018
Ministry establishes multistakeholder permanent working group to draft action plan, risk assessment check list and related guidelines on how to avoid routine tail docking
CIWF Italy only NGO member
3 months of intense work, meetings of 8 hours each

8. Ministerial guidelines to prevent tail docking in pig farming (July 2018)

9. Check-list and guidelines
Overall good pragmatic documents which can really lead to the start of the avoidance of routine tail docking in Italian pig farms
Enable an improvement of the whole pig farming system 

10. BUT to make it work (1)
Needs to be followed up closely by the Ministry
Trials cannot be started before the improvements of the timetable
done by the farmers
Ministry needs to follow up asap with roundletter and clearer
instructions on when to start trials 

11. Working group needs to be gathered again in early 2019
after self assessment submission by farmers and regularly after that
Health Ministry needs to work synergically with Agriculture
Ministry and Regions to release asap funding to help farmers
refurbishing their farms 
BUT to make it work (2)

12. Not only animal welfare
Also the image, reputation and the future itself of Made in Italy products are at stake The Italian pig farming system cannot afford to miss this fundamental appointment

13. The start was fair but now we have to make it happen
Grazie mille