#EUUK - Now I had the chance to quickly go through the text, a few takeaways in relation to #AnimalWelfare:

✅tariff/quota free trade in animal products
❌Much weaker LPF provisions than expected
✅First recognition of the link between AW and Sustainable food systems

(1)
✅confirmation both parties still in favour of banning the use of antibiotics as growth promoters
✅Obligation to set up rules to avoid duplicating tests on vertebrate animals
✅ #AnimalWelfare in the "right to regulate" article of the "Good regulatory practices" chapter

(2)
❌Precautionary principle absent from the SPS chapter but included in the LPF section (with a slightly better wording than in EU-Mercosur)
✅LPF Envi/Climate provisions cover "the management of impacts on the environment from agricultural or food production, notably through.. (3)
..the use of antibiotics and decontaminants.” (Could that allow to include #AnimalWelfare in the scope of LPF? remains to be seen..)

❌Provisions on cooperation to promote sustainable food systems do not mention aquaculture (was in EU draft)

(4)
Why are LPF provisions disappointing? The EU had in mind a pioneering "floor" approach (a level under which sanctions could be taken). Eventually, this is not happening. For any "rebalancing" measure to be taken in case of "deregulation", an impact on trade must be proven .. (5)
And all those working on trade policy and trade disputes know how hard it is to prove that deregulation creates distortion. This is exactly the "ecueil" that the initial approach would have avoided...

Now, let's see how politicians will see it but to me, it's disappointing..(6)
A lot of good principles (which we always appreciate), but nothing really concrete😔
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