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Live Animal Transport

Volume 298: debated on Friday 18 July 1997

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To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what representations he has made to EU partners to persuade them that long distance live animal transport should end. [8655]

We shall take every opportunity in contacts with our EU partners to press our view that a trade in meat is preferable to the long distance transport of food animals. In support of this we shall now be pressing our partners to implement and enforce the new EU rules on journey times which we ourselves have introduced as a priority, and are seeking improvements in these rules in ongoing EU discussions.