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08 April 2010 - ECMA is pleased to announce that the ruling on the use of electric collar devices  was published in the Journal legal “Corriere del merito” number 4  2010, with a positive result for E-collar owners in Italy

24 March 2010 - ECMA is very disappointed that the Welsh Assembly Members yesterday approved the Animal Welfare (Electronic Collars) (Wales) Regulations 2010 banning the use of Electronic Collars in Wales.  

ECMA believes this decision and the regulations are seriously flawed as they ignore significant scientific evidence which establishes the considerable benefits of using the collars as experienced by around 500,000 collar owners in the U.K.  The result will be that more dogs will die; more dogs will have to be re-homed and more owners will have to be distressed at having to give up their pets.  Pet owners in Wales are now worse off than those in other parts of the UK.

Accordingly, solicitors for ECMA have today formally requested an urgent reconsideration and reversal of the implementation of this decision by the Welsh Ministers.  If that request is not complied with imminently, ECMA will seek Judicial Review of this decision in the High Court.

What is ECMA?

ECMA was created in March 2004 as a result of increasing awareness from different manufacturers concerning the necessity of regulating their industry.

Members of this association have a continuous concern to improve the wellbeing of our pets, giving them harmony and integrating them into everyday social live.

This association brings together the principal manufacturers of low output electronic training aids, i.e.: DOGTRA, MARTIN SYSTEM, NUM’AXES, RADIO SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

The association will also expand to include manufacturers of other electronic training products such as pet tracking and pet identification devices.

ECMA Press release on situation in Wales. EN - FR - DE
ECMA Press release on situation in Scotland. EN -FR - DE

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