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The Netherlands have stated that a new process will be developed to ensure full compliance with EU legislation. Ina Müller-Arnke from German animal welfare organisation Four Paws said there was no real control system enforcing EU legislation: “So if you don’t have a control system or sanctions legislation doesn’t work.” “They suffer because they cannot move or properly drink, eat and rest.” Their video footage shows cattle covered in frost on the truck.Ī number of these resting spots were also regularly named on journey plans by Dutch exporters transporting breeding cattle, according to the Dutch agricultural minister Carola Schouten.Ī rally protesting against the transport of live animals. “We had the proof that the animals were not unloaded for five days,” said Helena Bauer, from the group. It states some transported animals had died painfully due to swallowing “foreign objects” at non-registered resting spots.Įarlier last year German welfare organisation Animals’ Angels followed cattle on the same 6,000km route. Their report concludes that animals on the route likely suffered “long-lasting and significant suffering and harm”. “They just wrote down some addresses but there was nothing ,” said Madeleine Martin, one of the vets on the visit. The vets reported that some spots did not uphold regulations and that some places listed as resting spots did not exist at all. EU regulations stipulate that until they reach their final destination, after every 29 hours of travel cattle must be unloaded, fed and watered in a designated resting place for 24 hours. In August last year four German vets visited a number of “resting spots” regularly supplied by German transport companies on their journey plans. The Netherlands’ decision was prompted by investigations from German vets and campaigners into transport routes into Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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Last week Austria followed suit and a number of German federal states have also introduced similar measures. It’s about member states taking responsibility.”
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“It’s a very important decision because so far what we have heard member states saying is that they cannot oblige a non-European country to comply with an EU law,” said Francesca Porta from Eurogroup for Animals.
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Last month the Netherlands, one of the world’s biggest exporters of live animals, became the first to announce a suspension on transports to non-EU countries as long as there were doubts on meeting EU regulations. The EU decision follows growing action from member states. The committee’s report, to be submitted in a year, will look at suspected lack of enforcement for regulations on space, watering, feeding, bedding, temperature and ventilation for transported animals. Animals are undertaking increasingly long journeys – sometimes lasting weeks – to places as remote as Russia, Uganda and Thailand. The trade is also booming in Europe with an estimated value of $3.3bn (£2.7bn). The Guardian reported earlier this year that the global live animal export business has more than quadrupled in size over the past 50 years, with rising meat demand setting nearly 2 billion animals on the move in 2017.
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Fear of commercial competition has also been an obstacle, she adds. Hazekamp said these cases are not incidental as those in the industry often claim: “It is on a structural basis that we see really cruel things done to animals – severe abuse and mistreatment.”įor a long time, she said, neither the commission nor member states were willing to take the lead in responsibility “and in the meantime, for decades, nothing changed”. Approximately 200 reports detailing breaches in regulations have been filed to the commission since 2007. Dutch MEP Anja Hazekamp described the vote, which took place on Friday, as a “historical breakthrough” for animal welfare: “A huge majority of parliament have said that animal transports should be investigated really firmly because they can all see there is so much going wrong.”Īnimal welfare organisation Four Paws welcomed it as a “milestone decision”.