{"id":28632,"date":"2012-04-27T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T10:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arsofia.com\/?p=28632"},"modified":"2012-04-27T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T10:02:12","slug":"after-the-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arsofia.com\/en\/after-the-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"After the protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Experts from the ministry of agriculture and animal welfare organizations have finished working on the changes to the new Regulation 41 by order of prime-minister Boyko Borisov<\/a>. The regulation which is crucial to the way the Catch-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return works is meant to make work easier to the smaller municipalities, by allowing them to build less-costly dog shelters.<\/p>\n

The dogs will be placed into small outside enclosures with dog-houses to keep them from the environment. The so-called \u201cconcentration camps<\/a>\u201d \u2013 large fenced areas where all the animals will be gathered before being placed in shelters will not be built. The so-changed Regulation 41 is a compromise to us as animal welfare workers, but we do understand the need for a less-expensive in smaller municipalities and don\u2019t want to compromise their work by setting the standard too high.<\/p>\n

The re-writing of the recently passed new Regulation 41 was pressed through after last week 91 animal welfare organizations from all of the country<\/a> sent their representatives to protest in front of the Council of Ministers. 3 representatives were received by the Prime Minister and at the meeting (where the Minister of Agriculture, The Mayor and deputy mayor of Sofia were present) he ordered that our experts be heard and taken into consideration when changing the animal-related legislation.<\/p>\n

The working groups were formed on April 24 and 25. The following parties took part in the process:<\/p>\n