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Finishers at this farm in the Netherlands are being raised without the usage of antibiocis.


lowing participating companies to show that they go beyond legal obligations and because they want to contribute to a strong sector. Similar systems exist in other livestock sectors which have helped to achieve a 63% drop in antibiotic usage between 2009 and 2018.


Bumpy road Following the same set of EU rules and regulations, the Span- ish trajectory has been very different, albeit the results show good progress (Figure 2). According to the Spanish ministry of health, it is primarily the lack of specific measures focused on reducing antibiotic use that should be considered when look-


EU framework for AMR reduction


The European Union has made great efforts to mitigate the threat of antimicrobial resist- ance. The European Commission’s One Health Action Plan Against Antimicrobial Resistance (2011) marked a major step towards antibiot- ic reduction. Many member states have fo- cused on reducing their use of antibiotics as a result. The European Commission’s action


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plan, however, was not legally binding, leav- ing the implementation of the guidelines it set out up to the individual member states themselves, with varying degrees of success. This is about to change, however. On 25 Oc- tober 2018, the European Parliament ap- proved new legislation to ban the prophylac- tic use of antibiotics in farming. The ban will


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come into effect next year, on 28 January 2022. On top of this the European Commis- sion adopted the Farm to Fork Strategy in May 2020, a tool to help shape the EU’s path towards sustainable food systems. Its objec- tive is to reduce total EU sales of antimicrobi- als for use in farmed animals and aquaculture by 50% by 2030.


ing at the increase in sales between 2010 and 2014. Spain be- gan collecting data on antibiotic sales in 2010, under the ES- VAC project and on a voluntary basis. In the years that followed, a system for data collection was put in place, in- cluding the development of a database and its validation. This enabled more accurate measurement of the use of vet- erinary antibiotics to take place and, above all, for the upward trend that had been maintained since 2010 to be identified. In 2014, Spain launched a comprehensive One Health strate- gy to tackle the problem of antimicrobial resistance: the Na- tional Plan to combat Antibiotic Resistance (PRAN). This


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