European farm animal breeders have agreed a Code of Good Practice. The Code sets out the goals of animal breeding organisations, the way in which these goals are pursued, and the rules or standards that govern the activities of breeders. The Code is intended to be both transparent and verifiable so that it is both easy to understand and simple to apply.
The Code is a tool that can be used by breeding organisations to provide insight in how they work.
The key aims of the Code are:
To become the standard instrument, in Europe, for defining and implementing good practice in farm animal breeding.
To give guidance and reassurance to European breeders in a field that is both complex and of growing importance.
To create greater transparency in the relationship between the European breeding and reproduction sector and the public
