Animal transport proposals dropped

Just last week NFU Scotland expressed its huge concerns at the impractical and costly proposals in a leaked Commission document that has now been shelved.

The proposed new regulations had threatened to cut journey times, lower stocking densities and impose greater restrictions on the onward movement of animals passing through markets.

NFUS has consistently argued that animal transport already operates to the highest standards in the UK and no further regulation is needed.

While welcoming the withdrawal, Rob Livesey, NFUS livestock chairman, stressed the proposals are likely to re-emerge in future when he hoped common sense would again prevail.

“We have said, year after year, that any welfare abuses related to transport should be clamped down on by the existing rules being enforced properly, as they are here. 

“However, the latest Commission proposals would have failed to address this fundamental issue and would have done nothing to address problems where they exist,” he said.

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