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• July 2021 update: France and Germany banned all chick culling per 1 January 2022 (first countries that practice chick culling in the world to do so), and called on other EU member states to follow suit. Their call was officially supported by Austria, Spain, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Portugal.
  • Germany bans male chick culling from 2022. Deutsche Welle (20 May 2021). Retrieved on 25 July 2021.
  • Reuters (18 July 2021). "France bans crushing and gassing of male chicks from 2022". Euronews. Retrieved on 24 July 2021.
  • Julia Dahm & Magdalena Pistorius (21 July 2021). "Germany, France call on EU countries to also ban culling of male chicks". Euractiv. Retrieved on 25 July 2021.
• EU, focus on France and Germany (2019–2020)
  • (in French) (30 October 2019). "Le « broyage des poussins » devrait être interdit en France à la fin de 2021". Le Monde. Retrieved on 21 May 2020.
  • AFP (13 January 2020). "Germany, France to push EU to end shredding of male chicks". France 24. Retrieved on 21 May 2020.
  • (in French) AFP (28 January 2020). "La France veut interdire la castration à vif des porcelets et le broyage des poussins à la fin de 2021". Le Monde. Retrieved on 21 May 2020.
  • (29 January 2020). "France to ban culling of unwanted male chicks by end of 2021". BBC News. Retrieved on 29 January 2020.
  • France: (in French) Caroline Quevrain (28 January 2020). "Quatre questions sur la fin annoncée du broyage des poussins mâles". La Chaîne Info. Retrieved on 21 May 2020. (France apparently not explicitly banning gassing by 2022)

• Austria: Per 1 January 2023, the Animal Protection Act of Austria added provisions banning the shredding (maceration) of living chicks, and the killing of viable chicks unless for the purpose of feed production. In-ovo sexed eggs could be destroyed before the 14th day of incubation, requiring anaesthetic if performed between the 7th and 13th day of incubation. Iske, Katrin (8 May 2023). Österreich: Kükentöten und echter Tierschutz passen doch zusammen (German). DGS Magazin. Retrieved on 10 July 2024.
• Belgium
  • Flanders: With the adoption of the Flemish Animal Welfare Code on 16 May 2024, chick culling was banned in Flanders in principle per Article 37, but the ban would not take effect until a date to be determined. Decreet over dierenwelzijn (Vlaamse Codex Dierenwelzijn van 17 mei 2024) (nl, fr). ejustice.just.fgov.be (16 May 2024). Retrieved on 11 July 2024.^:39
  • Wallonia: Banned grinding chicks on 8 July 2021, but not gassing; neither killing method was or is practiced in Wallonia.
    • La Wallonie s'apprête à interdire préventivement le broyage des poussins (French). RTBF (11 March 2021). Retrieved on 11 July 2024.
    • Législation/protection des animaux au moment de leur mise à mort (French). Portail environnement de Wallonie. Retrieved on 11 July 2024.
    • Site internet du Parlement de Wallonie (French). Parlement de Wallonie. Retrieved on 11 July 2024.
    • Dierenwelzijn in het Waals Gewest 2019-2024. Beoordeling van de ambtstermijn van minister Céline Tellier (Dutch). GAIA (2024). Retrieved on 11 July 2024.^:5
    • Bien-être animal en Région wallonne 2019-2024. Bilan du mandat de la ministre Céline Tellier (French). GAIA (2024). Retrieved on 11 July 2024.^:5
• Denmark: "In Denmark, where the practice remains legal, more than three million day-old male layer chicks are culled every year – including those from free-range and organic production systems." Researcher: Seven billion newly hatched chicks are killed every year – but a ban is not the solution. University of Copenhagen (21 March 2024). Retrieved on 12 July 2024.
• Luxembourg: The amended Animal Protection Act (Loi sur la protection des animaux, Deiereschutzgesetz, Tierschutzgesetz) of 6 June 2018 banned the "elimination of animals for exclusively economic reasons", understood as including killing male chicks and male calves in milk production. (It claims to have been the first country in the world to ban these practices, although it appears these did not exist within its borders at the time anyway.)
  • (summary in English) Animal protection in Luxembourg. gouvernement.lu (6 June 2018). Retrieved on 10 July 2024.
  • (legislation in French) Article 12 : Pratiques interdites. Texte de la loi (French). Deiereschutzgesetz. Retrieved on 10 July 2024.
  • (explanation in French) Loi sur la protection des animaux (French). ma.gouvernement.lu (6 June 2018). Retrieved on 10 July 2024. "Loi sur la protection des animaux"
  • (drafting process of the bill in French) Dossier consolidé. Projet de loi 6994 : Projet de loi sur la protection des animaux. wdocs-pub.chd.lu (6 December 2023). Retrieved on 10 July 2024.
  • (commentary in French) David Hiez (1 May 2024). Une nouvelle loi de protection des animaux au Luxembourg : pragmatisme ou inventivité vague ?. hal.science. Retrieved on 10 July 2024. (page 172)
• Netherlands: On 15 June 2021, the Dutch Parliament voted to ban chick killing in the long term, and to inquire how to implement such a ban. The Steering Group on One-Day Cockerels, set up by the Ministry of Agriculture after this, published two research reports in November 2022, which showed that the issue was complex and a Dutch ban on chick killing could not be introduced for the time being, but agreements were already reached between the Ministry and the poultry sector on structurally reducing chick killing. Nog geen verbod op het doden van eendagshaantjes (Dutch). Groen Kennisnet (12 November 2022). Retrieved on 11 July 2024.
• Norway: The only two egg producers in Norway, Steinsland/Nortura and Salte, decided to switch to in-ovo sexing technology in 2022–2024, and phase out chick killing within a few years. As of April 2024, it was expected that the Norwegian government would ban chick killing once the industry has switched, as demanded by the Storting. Etiske og praktiske utfordringer i konsumeggproduksjonen (Norwegian Bokmål). Animalia. Retrieved on 12 July 2024.
  Landsforbund, Kjøtt- og fjørfebransjens (7 December 2023). Styrker seg i rugerikonkurransen (Norwegian Bokmål). Kjøtt- og fjørfebransjens Landsforbund. Retrieved on 12 July 2024.
• Spain: (in Spanish) Aurora Cancela Pérez (27 March 2020). "El sacrificio de pollitos macho en España podría terminar en 2021 según el Ministerio de Agricultura". Crónica Norte. Retrieved on 21 May 2020.
• Switzerland: Vuilleumier, Marie (20 September 2019). Switzerland bans shredding of male chicks. Swissinfo. Retrieved on 19 February 2020.
• Ukraine: (in Ukrainian) (April 2023) Науково-інноваційний розвиток агровиробництва як запорука продовольчої безпеки України: вчора, сьогодні, завтра. Матеріали конференції. М. Київ, 19-20 квітня 2023 р. (Інновації в гуманізації вибракування курчат-самців, "Innovations in the humanisation of male chick culling", pages 129 to 131).
  Про затвердження Вимог до забезпечення благополуччя тварин під час забою та умертвіння (Ukrainian). Official web portal of the Parliament of Ukraine (29 August 2022). Retrieved on 12 July 2024.
• United Kingdom: Louise Gray (4 November 2010). "40 million chicks on 'conveyor belt to death'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 22 May 2020.