Session short description: Right now, having no rights, animals cannot advocate for themselves before the courts. On the other hand, everyone using animals can take legal actions if denied permission. This is a huge deficiency, and it's long overdue to implement mandatory legal remedies in the area of animal welfare, since protection only on paper, without being transposed into reality, is useless. It's not quite unrealistic, for some federal states of Germany allow such actions, and the EU-Aarhus-Convention implements such rights for environmental NGOs.