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EU member mentions objective to ward off live animal transportation restriction – EURACTIV.com

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A group of member states has actually signed up with forces to promote a thinning down of the upcoming animal transportation evaluation, worrying that there ought to not be a total restriction on the practice provided its value to the agrifood sector.

The joint paper, advanced by the Portuguese on behalf of the French, Greek, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian and Spanish delegations, will be raised as an ‘any other business’ point at the next conference of EU farming ministers on 30 January.

“We stress that the primary objective of the revision of the legislation should be the continued facilitation of high welfare intracommunity trade and export of live animals, but not be focused on measures aimed at prohibiting or limiting certain types of transport,” the interaction checks out. 

This is since the transportation of animals is “fundamental to the normal functioning of the European animal production sectors”, it keeps, providing the example of seasonal natural pastures indicating that some animal productions, particularly livestock and sheep, need to be moved. 

As such, “failure to continue this facilitation will have an unintended consequence of impacting overall animal welfare negatively”, it cautions, recommending that residents in close-by 3rd nations will be “obliged to source animals from likely more distant non-EU suppliers with less developed animal welfare provisions”.

However, it does yield that it is an activity that “demands high standards and attentive oversight” and, as such, the delegations still “strongly support” the requirement to modify the legislation.

For example, the delegations indicate the requirement for much better meanings of the transporters’ and organisers’ duties and authorisations and much better harmonisation of the training of drivers, to name a few things.  

The existing EU legislation on the defense of animals throughout transportation participated in force in 2005.

The European Commission is presently examining the EU animal well-being legislation, which is being carried out within the structure of the EU’s flagship food policy, the Farm to Fork technique.

In doing so, the EU executive intends to line up legislation with the latest clinical proof, widen its scope, make it much easier to implement and eventually make sure a greater level of animal well-being.

The Commission’s proposition is anticipated in the 2nd half of 2023.

Meanwhile, on the back of a series of current prominent events of animals being stranded at sea, the EU executive is likewise preparing, under the existing legal structure, tertiary legislation to enhance main controls on animals vessels, anticipated to be embraced at the end of 2022. 

Joe Moran, director of the European policy workplace of campaign group 4 PAWS called the positions revealed in the paper “utterly disappointing”. 

“At a time when citizens across our European Union expect ambitious proposals on animal welfare – including on regulating live transport – we see a move from some to continue with the same broken system that has been shown to have failed time and time again,” he said, worrying that the EU’s performance history has actually revealed that ‘improving’ live transportation has actually shown “futile”.

Meanwhile, Olga Kikou, head of Compassion in World Farming EU, informed EURACTIV that European residents and progressive political leaders require “no convincing that long-distance animal transport and live exports are ethically unacceptable”, knocking the “vested interests” that are attempting to “thwart progress”. 

Not a done offer

However, the nations behind the paper might deal with strong opposition from other farming ministers. Notably, Germany has actually been singing in requiring that live animal transportation to non-EU nations ought to be prohibited entirely.

In November, the nation charged ahead and took procedures to limit live animal transportation to 3rd nations as much as possible on a nationwide level and revealed the withdrawal of veterinary certificates for livestock, sheep and goats by mid-2023.

However, this service does not equate to a total restriction of live exports from Germany, as it still leaves room for exporters to settle on certificates straight with the getting nation or trading partner.

Since a total restriction can just be put in location by the EU, Özdemir required the entire bloc to follow Germany’s lead.

“We can no longer stand by and watch animals suffer or die in agony on long journeys,” he said at the time.

[Edited by Nathalie Weatherald]

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