The locality **enables breeding grounds** and the regulation that was promoted as **prohibition of breeding grounds**, only **masks the reality** that lies ahead for **Berazategui** in terms of **animal rights**.
Furthermore, it sets the worst precedent for the **province of Buenos Aires** and the rest of the country, since the regulation not only **prohibits unlicensed breeding grounds**, opening the possibility that from now on, those who want to engage in this **activity of breeding**, **reproducing and selling animals** (breeding grounds) can be **licensed** at the Municipality of Berazategui according to the requirements established by the regulation.
“I became aware of this ordinance that **opposes any municipal, provincial or national regulations that seek to regulate animal cruelty** carried out through **breeding grounds** and any other form, always advocating for the **prohibition** of places of **abuse** and animal cruelty,” declared **Dr. Maria de las Victorias González Silvano**, head of the **Animal Rights** department at the Faculty of Law of **UBA**, to **Environmental News**.
**Elba Tiburzi**, representative of the **NGO Management in Protection and Defense of Animals / Alert Galgo Argentina**, strongly condemned this initiative that only **encourages cruelty, abuse, and exploitation** of **sentient beings**, representing a setback in terms of **animal rights**, and that no activist or protector can celebrate, endorse, or be part of **norms that objectify** and only perpetuate the **suffering of the weakest**.
**Marta Serman** from **Pets Looking for a Family**, expressed to **Environmental News**: “you cannot go against **penal law 14346** whose amendment **is being discussed in Congress** and where the **breeding grounds** issue is one of the topics to be addressed, the **Berazategui ordinance** does not determine the sanctions, what will they do with those who **do not comply** with this regulation? Will they **fine** those who are not licensed, will they **take away the animals** from them? And if they **take away the animals**, where will those lives go, under whose care and for what purpose.
The Berazategui ordinance establishes:
**Article 1** Prohibit in the area of Berazategui the installation, existence, and operation of unlicensed **domestic animal breeding grounds**.
But immediately and contrary to what is announced as **prohibition, it establishes the end of the regulation**, the **regulation**, and **licensing of breeding grounds**.
Where it establishes the location and operation of establishments dedicated to the **breeding and reproduction of domestic animals**, veterinary technical advice, classifies the breeding grounds to be licensed as **family breeding ground and industrial breeding ground**.
Likewise, it determines the documentation to be submitted to initiate the **licensing procedures**, they request: name, identification number, and address of the applicant, objectives of the breeding ground, location of the establishment, property title, lease contract, species to be bred, place or places where the parental population will be obtained, inventory of the animals owned, indicating quantity, sex, age, and number of individuals that make up the parental population, number of individuals produced that will be used to renew the parental population.
The specialists in the subject obtained the Draft of the Ordinance:
