Adoption of a Council Regulation on the protection of animals at the time of killing

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COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Brussels, 12 August 2009

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2008/0180 (CNS)

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Adoption of a Council Regulation on the protection of animals at the time of killing

STATEMENT BY THE ESTONIAN AND LATVIAN DELEGATIONS

"Estonia and Latvia welcome the animal welfare principles enforced by the draft legislation, which, when implemented, in addition to a significant increase in animal welfare, also give an impulse for the development of technologies implemented in the slaughter industry and harmonize competition conditions of the internal market.

Unfortunately, we cannot agree to the extension of implemented stunning methods to slaughtering for private domestic consumption. Uncontesting the general stunning principle of animals before slaughtering, we find that we are dealing with something that regulates in too many details a domain that does not influence the internal market, nor trade, which, without additional control mechanisms, creates administrative and also political problems in the implementation of the regulation.

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We find that according to the principle of subsidiarity, the more specific regulation of slaughtering for self-consumption should be left to the jurisdiction of a Member State.

We encourage the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council to mobilize all possible efforts and resources to this effect."

II. STATEMENT BY THE FRENCH AND SPANISH DELEGATIONS

"France and Spain consider it essential that products imported satisfy requirements which are comparable if not identical with those imposed on Community products, in terms of both animal welfare and animal and plant health.

In particular, the importance accorded by European citizens to animal welfare, as evidenced by the Protocol on protection and welfare of animals annexed to the Treaty of Amsterdam, must not be set at nought by importing products produced in ways which do not comply with the criteria designed to meet their expectations.

Moreover, applying requirements to imports which are less strict than those applicable to European operators are likely to create unfavourable conditions of competition for them, as pointed out in the memorandum presented to the Agriculture Council on 23 June 2008. In this connection, France and Spain would draw the Commission's attention to the conclusions adopted by the Council on 18 December 2008 on the safety of imported agricultural and agri-food products and compliance with Community rules, in particular paragraphs 4.7 and 4.8.

France and Spain welcome the insertion of a clause on imports in this Regulation and invite the Commission to ensure that third-country establishments approved for exporting to the European Union meet all the specifications of Chapters II and III. They also consider that the animal welfare attestation must relate both to fresh meat and to meat products and preparations".

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