Yorki- I'm not finding anything about this 'breaking news' on any of the search engines ?????

From RSPCA:
The RSPCA has warmly welcomed the announcement that Wales will outlaw cruel electric shock collars for dogs and is calling on the government to extend the ban to England.

National Assembly Minister for Environment, Planning and Countryside, Carwyn Jones, said Wales will bring forward legislation to ban dog shock collars through the Animal Welfare Act.

Electrical stimulation or shock collars are devices through which a trainer or owner can remotely deliver a shock to a dog, using pain as a punisher in order to suppress a target behaviour.

"Shock collars work by causing a dog pain, which the RSPCA and all animal welfare groups believe is completely unacceptable," said David Bowles, RSPCA head of external affairs. "We hope this wise, welfare-based decision from Wales will be replicated by the government in England, and that a ban on electric shock collars for dogs can come into force in both countries without delay."

Inhumane and ineffective
The RSPCA believes that positive reward-based training is both more humane and more effective. The use of punishment techniques in dog training has been associated instead with an increase in the incidence of problem behaviours.*

As long ago as 2000, the Association of Chief Police Officers urged police forces not to use electric shock collars after they heard evidence from the RSPCA and other animal welfare groups. Furthermore, the Armed Forces dog unit has also prohibited electric shock collars.

"Back in 2002, during the initial consultation on what is now the Animal Welfare Act, the RSPCA recommended that a new offence should be created prohibiting the sale and use of devices designed for the training or control of companion animals that work by causing the animal pain," said Mr Bowles.

"Hopefully the Welsh example will now spur parliament on to also introduce a ban in England under the Animal Welfare Act."

The RSPCA is particularly concerned that shock collars are freely available to the public and are sold with minimal instruction, adding to their scope for misuse either through ignorance by owners untrained to use them, or through malice by those intent on deliberate cruelty.

The Animal Welfare Act, passed in November 2006, will come into force in Wales on 28 March 2007 and in England on 6 April 2007.

Doglistener - You can confirm for your own mind if you want, either make contact with some APDT or your type of trainer over there another alternative is to contact the Italian Embassy, not sure if the embassy would know anything but they will give the right give dept in Italy to contact and ask them.

As usual, two APDT members totally underestimating the intelligence of readers on this forum. The is no ban in e-collars in Italy, people do not have to prove anything on these forums, if someone makes a statement that is a sensible statement its then down to others to prove them wrong

No government writes about laws that do not exist for the simple obvious reason there is no record of  something which does not exist. I don’t have to prove there is no law saying a policeman has to levitate 3 feet above the ground to make an arrest, I don’t have to prove because it does not exist.

It’s VERY easy for either of you to call the embassy, get the Italian equivalent of DEFRA’s number and from their get the web link showing the law, it’s exactly the same as here, Yorki could have done since I put it online, she hasn’t because there is no law against e-collars in Italy so she can’t.

So show us the Italian law on e-collars if you think there is one, there is not and therefore you cannot and thats why Yorki has not been able to put up a link in the time she has had since this post went on. Below is our government equivalents, Italy will have the same and easily translated in an Alta Vista web page translator or do you think readers are so stupid that they do not know all you have to is to make a 3P per min call to the Italian equivilent of DEFRA and you would have their equivilent, you cannot because there is no law on e-collars there, it was withdrawn– Typical of the unhealthy thinking of APDT members which you both are, how APDT members underestimate peoples intelligence and the low cognitive level APST members fundction at, not surprising dogs are being killed by them, the sooner pet owners realize what they are the better the outlook for dogs.

UK Equivilents.

Social Security Fraud Act 2001
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2001/20010011.htm

Road Traffic Act 1988
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880052_en_1.htm

DDA
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1991/Ukpga_19910065_en_1.htm