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Winter is coming, so vulnerable animals will suffer from the cold. Only people who provide warmth and at least minimal care can help them. In particular, business representatives support the approach that establishments should independently determine whether animals and people with their cats and dogs may be inside the premises.
Animal rights activists urge support for legal changes
Animal rights activists and businesses have already appealed to the Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministry of Economy, and local authorities to remove outdated restrictions on animals in public establishments, stores, and gas stations. As early as 2025 year, then- Minister of Economy Oleksii Sobolev promised to work on the relevant changes. However, they have not been adopted yet. The issue was emphasized by representatives of UAnimals.
Epicenter, Avrora, Silpo, and UPG advocate for allowing animals in their establishments, and joined the initiative. The main proposal is for the state to review sanitary restrictions to allow businesses to independently set access rules for animals.
For example, under such conditions, a venue could be divided into zones and visitor rules implemented. With this request, UAnimals again appealed to the Ministry of Economy at the beginning of October.
We call to amend the order №590 from 01.10.2012 "On approval of Requirements for the development, implementation, and application of permanent procedures based on the HACCP principles" and/or other relevant sanitary rules,
— reported the activists.
The initiators are convinced that there can be no responsible society without humane treatment of animals.
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Separately, animal rights activists are addressing Minister of Economy Oleksandr Kravchenko to also support allowing businesses to regulate rules for staying with animals inside premises.
We remind that there are currently no legislative norms that would allow or prohibit visiting public venues with animals. But there are also norms that obligate owners to treat this issue responsibly.
Many business representatives still prohibit visiting their establishments with animals, except for guide dogs.
In the summer, activists took a step toward developing a guide with rules for visiting establishments with animals. It aimed to form a single approach to how establishments interact with visitors who come with their pets.
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