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Legislation on the protection of farm animals
Homolková, Kateřina ; Fabšíková, Tereza (advisor) ; Damohorský, Milan (referee)
Legislation on the protection of farm animals Abstract The thesis deals with the legal regulation of the protection of livestock with an emphasis on their breeding, transport, and slaughter. This thesis aims to find out what legal protection is provided to farm animals by the current legislation, what living conditions farm animals are entitled to under the law and whether this protection is sufficient. The thesis is divided into five chapters, the most detailed of which is the second one, which analyses the legal regulation of livestock farming, including the special rules that apply to pregnant females and their young, livestock production, castration and sterilisation. The thesis also examines the legal regulation of the transport of livestock, both between EU Member States and to third countries outside the EU. Last but not least, the thesis examines the legislation laying down rules for the slaughter and killing of livestock. A separate chapter is also devoted to the institutions responsible for enforcing legislation on the protection of farm animals. The thesis reaches three main conclusions. Animal protection legislation is found in too many different legal texts, which makes the legal protection of animals highly fragmented and incomplete. Closely related to this conclusion is the fact that the...
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Legal protection of farm animals against cruelty
Kaletová, Gabriela ; Derlich, Stanislav (advisor) ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (referee)
Legal protection of farm animals against cruelty The thesis deals with the protection of farm animals against cruelty and its main goal is to evaluate the current state of legislation in this field, with respect to both theory and praxis. The thesis comprises of five chapters excluding introduction and summary. The summary sums ups all the findings introduced in the thesis and presents de lege ferenda ideas. The first two chapters define basic terms crucial for the topic and also introduce the historical basis of farm animal legal protection. The current legislation is dealt with at first at the international and European level in chapter three. More attention is naturally given to legal protection of farm animals in the Czech Republic, especially to enforcement of the farm animal protection laws. This enables the thesis to eventually evaluate how effectively farm animals are protected by law in our country. Chapter number five tries to answer the fundamental question behind this thesis; is the current legislation at such a level that would ensure that farm animals are indeed protected against cruelty and that would ensure their good welfare? The thesis uses knowledge from scientific fields such as ethology to be able to answer this question and evaluate the practical impact of the legislation on animal...
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Legal regulation of protection of farm animals against cruelty
Váňová, Barbara ; Derlich, Stanislav (advisor) ; Pokorný, Jiří (referee)
Diploma thesis - Legal regulation of protection of farm animals against cruelty This diploma thesis on Legal regulation of protection of farm animals against cruelty divides into five chapters (excluding the introduction and conclusion). The first chapter explains the relevant terminology. The second chapter concentrates on history of animal rights and philosophical aspects of these rights as well as on animals as subjects of law. The following chapters focus on applicable relevant legislation. The third chapter deals with international animal welfare agreements and relevant EU legislation. The fourth, most important, chapter summarizes the legislation on the protection of farm animals against maltreatment in the legal order of the Czech Republic. This chapter gradually focuses on both public and private law. Finally, the fifth chapter brings a comparison of the domestic legislation on the protection of farm animals against cruelty with the legislation of the Hellenic Republic.
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Legal protection of farm animals against cruelty
Kudernová, Anna ; Žákovská, Karolina (advisor) ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (referee)
This diploma thesis entitled Legal protection of farm animals against cruelty aims to provide comprehensive overview of legal provisions for the protection of farm animals, authorities providing this protection and historical bases of the way humans interact with animals. The thesis has 7 chapters. The first chapter defines the key terms for this work, animals and farm animals. The second charter pursues the development of the human-animal relationship and philosophical, religious and other influences affecting this relationship. The third chapter gives an overview of the first legislation dealing with animal cruelty. We can find International treaties and European Union law on the protection of farm animals against cruelty in the fourth charter. Then the thesis focuses on the current Czech legislation, the individual areas of animal treatment regulated by law and in particular the Act no. 246/1992 Coll., On protection of animals against cruelty. The sixth chapter defines the scope of the individual animal protection authorities and finally it provils the overview of the possibilities of sanctions imposed on persons in order to protect farm animals.
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