35Those Governments submit that the frequent use of Caesarean sections in calving is incompatible with the Protocol of amendment to the European Convention for the Protection of Animals kept for Farming Purposes (European Treaty Series 145). Those two instruments have been approved on behalf of the Community, the convention by Council Decision 78/923/EEC of 19 June 1978 (OJ 1978 L 323, p. 12) and the protocol of amendment by Council Decision 92/583/EEC of 14 December 1992 (OJ 1992 L 395, p. 21), although the latter is not yet in force. The Recommendation concerning Cattle adopted by the Standing Committee of the European Convention at its 17th session (21 October 1988) also opposes that method of calving. Point 13 of Appendix B to that recommendation, containing special provisions on cows and heifers, provides that Caesarean sections should be performed only in the interests of the animals concerned and not as routine measures.
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