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Its next step will be electronic certification without any paperwork. At the moment, the legal basis for exchange of goods or live animals among non-EU countries and the EU is a paper certificate, even if the decision 2004/292/CE [6] says it mandatory for member states and economic operators to use TRACES since 31 December 2004.
EU pet passport. A pet passport is a document that officially records information related to a specific animal, as part of that procedure. The effect is to drastically speed up and simplify travel with and transport of animals between member countries, compared to previous procedures if the regulations are followed. [1]
However, as Northern Ireland shares a land border with EU member Republic of Ireland, EU rules apply if traveling there. This means that pet owners visiting Northern Ireland from EU countries can use their pet's EU pet passport, while those arriving from outside the EU must present an EU pet health certificate. [35]
All these conventions were based on animal welfare recommendations resulting from the latest scientific research in applied ethology. The Farm Animal Convention worked as an overarching, open framework law that could be further elaborated later, while the transport and slaughter conventions were much more detailed, 'closed' and finalised in ...
HU 260 EK Where HU is the country code for Hungary, 260 is the national approval number of a processing facility (in this case, a dairy facility of the company Alföldi Tej), and EK stands for Európai Közösség (European Community in Hungarian). Another example with a more complex national approval number: FR 49.099.001 CE Where FR is the country code for France, 49.099.001 is a complex ...
The main provisions of the Farm Animal Convention concern: [5] definitions of the concepts of 'animals' and modern intensive farming systems, the general principles governing the living conditions of farm animals, which must benefit from housing, food and care appropriate to their physiological and ethological needs,
EU did not comply and the DSB authorized the US and Canada to take countermeasures against the EU. The countermeasures took the form of increased custom duties applied by the US and Canada on certain EU products, including the notorious Roquefort cheese. In 2004, while the ban on hormone-treated meat was still in place, the EU initiated before ...
The European Convention for the Protection of Animals for Slaughter, also known as the Slaughter Convention, [1] [2] is an animal welfare treaty of the Council of Europe, adopted on 10 May 1979 in Strasbourg, and effective since 11 June 1982. [3] It establishes ethical standards pertaining to animal slaughter, such as stunning.