As provided in Article 8 (1) of Commission Decision of 24 January 2017 establishing the Commission Expert Group ‘Platform on Animal Welfare’1 and in its Rules of Procedure2, the Chair of the Platform may set up sub-groups for the purpose of examining specific questions on the basis of terms of reference defined by the Commission. The Commission and the members of the EU Platform on Animal welfare (the ‘Platform’) agreed to establish a sub-group on “animal welfare labelling. Terms of reference attached.