OREANDA-NEWS  The State Duma Committee on Ecology, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection recommended that the Chamber reject seven bills that in one form or another proposed to introduce euthanasia of neglected animals. This was announced to TASS by the first deputy head of the committee, Vladimir Burmatov, on Wednesday.

"We have made a unanimous decision to recommend for rejection seven bills at once, which in one way or another propose to prescribe euthanasia, killing, humane euthanasia - any of these constructions in relation to homeless animals. This is the principled position of the committee," Burmatov stressed.

At the same time, the committee also recommended that the Chamber adopt a revised bill in the second reading, which gives the regions the right to decide on the treatment of neglected animals. As Burmatov noted earlier, by the second reading, the committee finalized the initiative, fully preserving in it the norms on the mandatory placement of homeless animals in shelters.

"The most important thing is why, simultaneously with the recommendation to adopt this draft in the second reading, we reject seven more bills involving euthanasia - we did not follow the lead of those who proposed to prescribe this euthanasia in the federal law. That is, there is no euthanasia of neglected animals in the federal law and there will not be," Burmatov stressed.