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BVA and RCVS Brexit roundtable 24 February 2017
- 1. Brexit and the veterinary profession Sean Wensley BVA Senior Vice President
- 2. “BVA will work hard to ensure the voice of the veterinary profession is heard during the negotiation and discussions…” “BVA will retain an outward looking and inclusive perspective through our relationships with international partners, including FVE, CVA, and WVA to ensure the UK veterinary profession continues to influence and engage on cross border issues such as disease surveillance, veterinary medicines and antimicrobial resistance." 24 June
- 5. Areas covered by EU legislation • Veterinary medicines • Livestock and food chain traceability • Food labelling • Livestock identification and record keeping • Food safety • Disease prevention, control, eradication and outbreaks • Surveillance • Control and disposal of animal by-products • Official animal welfare checks • Welfare at slaughter • Animal welfare standards for different species • Welfare in transport • Controls on food products and livestock at ports • Pet travel • Commercial movement of animals • Use of animals for research
- 6. Brexit Working Group Absent: Prof Bill McKelvey, Dr Pete Goddard
- 7. Input to the Brexit Working Group Member input: BVA Community discussion & Voice of the Veterinary Profession survey Council input: Dec 2016 – Brexit opportunities Division input:
- 8. BVA principles for negotiating the UK’s exit from the EU Unique selling point of ‘UK PLC’ = high animal welfare & food safety Public money to replace CAP should support and incentivise ‘public goods’ Working rights for vets and VNs must be guaranteed All existing standards must be maintained & opportunities sought to improve Reciprocal sharing of surveillance data must be maintained UK should maintain link with the EU central approval system for vet meds Veterinary involvement from farm to fork underpins AH, AW & public health Immigration systems must take account of workforce need
- 9. Wider input to the Brexit Working Group Major Employers Group
- 10. Outreach • Breakfast on Brexit at BVA Congress • Northern Ireland Brexit stakeholder meeting • University presentations • Regional presentations • Vet Record viewpoint • BVA News
Editor's Notes
- We made a statement immediately after the result of the referendum and produced a briefing paper.
- Our first priority was to our members…. So we sought reassurances from UK governments over working rights for non-British EU citizens living and working in the UK and also for British vets and VNs living, working and studying in other Member States. (Responses from the four governments of the UK have been inconclusive. Some warm words and positive indications but as yet, no guarantees.) We have issued a number of press releases to keep members informed. Gudrun wrote a blog on Brexit, ‘Pulling together as the veterinary family.’ RCVS and BVA have sent a joint letter to the Prime Minister with their concerns over how Brexit, and its impact on EU migration, may affect the veterinary profession. (The Government recognises the “vital work” that UK and EU vets currently do, and will continue to do after the UK’s exit from the EU, but cautions that UK-based EU vets’ working rights can only be protected if reciprocal agreements can be guaranteed for British citizens living in EU member states, according to a letter from the Home Office to BVA and RCVS.)
- Our first priority was to our members…. So we sought reassurances from UK governments over working rights for non-British EU citizens living and working in the UK and also for British vets and VNs living, working and studying in other Member States. (Responses from the four governments of the UK have been inconclusive. Some warm words and positive indications but as yet, no guarantees.) We have issued a number of press releases to keep members informed. Gudrun wrote a blog on Brexit, ‘Pulling together as the veterinary family.’ RCVS and BVA have sent a joint letter to the Prime Minister with their concerns over how Brexit, and its impact on EU migration, may affect the veterinary profession. (The Government recognises the “vital work” that UK and EU vets currently do, and will continue to do after the UK’s exit from the EU, but cautions that UK-based EU vets’ working rights can only be protected if reciprocal agreements can be guaranteed for British citizens living in EU member states, according to a letter from the Home Office to BVA and RCVS.)
- The new EU Animal Health Law was recently agreed and provides a framework for disease prevention and control across Europe, covering a wide range of areas, including disease research, surveillance, biosecurity and veterinary involvement on farms. In discussions feeding into development of the new law, BVA’s Veterinary Policy Group agreed that the UK should be considered within the epidemiological unit of Europe for disease control.
- 4 meetings (Sept, Oct, Dec 2016, January 2017 – next March 2017) Close liaison with RCVS taskforce: reciprocal arrangement – attend each others meetings Heard evidence in committee from British Small Animal Vet Assoc., Soc. Prac. Vet. Surgeons, Major Employers Group, Assoc. Vet in Industry, Wellcome Trust, Nat. Office Animal Health, CVO UK Nigel Gibbens, Nat Farmers Union, Richard Bennett, British Cattle Vet Assoc, FAI Farms, Written input or satellite meetings with Veterinary Ireland, MEG, NOAH, Vet Med. Directorate, Vet Schools Council, BVA NI Branch & NI stakeholders
- Thank you to all our members and divisions for the discussion
- Principles are already agreed, Brexit Working Group’s final report to Council due in April 2017.