Even from Muggia activists will go down in Rome for animal rights.
The article says 13 Treaty of Lisbon “the European Union and the Member States take full account of the requirements of animal welfare as sentient beings“. This treaty dates back to 2007, Yet even today in the Italian Civil Code, the animals do not find a clear place and fall within the legal category of chattels (art. 812).
Being identified as movable property is not only bad taste from the semantic point of view, also it involves the practical aspects such as the animal to seizure.
Even the Italian penal code is no less. It is worth mentioning that the section that talks about the mistreatment of animals is titrated “Offenses against the sentiment for animals”. It is not the animal object of legal protection, but with a very anthropocentric view, is the feeling that the human evidence for the animal to be protected.
The classification of animals as chattel no longer belongs to common sense and does not take into account the evolution of European treaties and case law. In a judgment of the Court of Milan 13 March 2013, eg, the judge gave legitimate faculties of the spouses in the separation step to adjust the permanence of a companion animals at the one or the other dwelling and the manner that each of the two human were to follow for the maintenance. This is because the animal can not be considered a "thing", but a sentient.
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