Protecting Essential Antibiotics for Human Use

by name voted on 23.06.2022

Summary

The motion criticizes an EU draft regulation for failing to effectively reserve essential antibiotics for humans, as it only targets drugs already banned in animals. It calls for a new approach that protects high-priority medicines while allowing strictly controlled individual animal treatments.

9 23.06.2022

Other

health

environment

administrative law

veterinary medicine

Key points

The current draft regulation is criticized for failing to reserve any antibiotics that are actually currently used in veterinary medicine.
Antimicrobial resistance represents a massive global health threat, with death rates from resistant infections rising significantly.
The European Parliament calls for the Commission to withdraw the current draft and submit a new one based on World Health Organization recommendations.
The motion suggests amending regulations to allow the use of critical antibiotics for individual sick animals under very strict medical conditions.

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Documents (PDFs)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the draft Commission implementing regulation designating antimicrobials or groups of antimicrobials reserved for treatment of certain infections in humans, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council

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