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#ECtHR declares, for the first time, that #animalwelfare can be linked to “public morality”, which is one of the legitimate aims exhaustively listed in Article 9 of the Convention. No violation of #freedomofreligion for obligation to stun #animals in religious #slaughter. 👉 EXECUTIEF VAN DE MOSLIMS VAN BELGIË AND OTHERS v. 🇧🇪 https://lnkd.in/eFFEbBDd 👇 #StrasbourgCourt: 🔵🐂takes note of the growing importance of animal welfare in #europe 🔵🐐reiterates that the prevention of #animalsuffering can justify interference with freedom of assembly & association under the protection of #morals (Friend and Others v. UK, concerning fox #hunting) ❗️🐏specifies that the protection of #publicmorals cannot be understood as aiming solely at the protection of #humandignity in relationships between people; even if the Convention recognizes, under its Article 1, rights and #freedoms for the benefit of individuals only, it cannot be interpreted as promoting the absolute satisfaction of the rights and freedoms that it enshrines without regard to animal suffering (§ 95) 🔵🇪🇺 recognizes that unlike #europeanunion law which establishes animal welfare as an objective of general interest, the protection of animal well-being is not an explicit object of the #ECHR. Consequently, the control of #proportionality of an interference does not consist of #balancing two #rights of equal value but of assessing whether the interference is justified in principle and whether it is proportionate with regard to the protection of public morals, taking into account the wide #marginofappreciation available to the national authorities

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