#Act4 AnimalsEU Billion-dollar export trade puts lives of animals and crew at greater risk of ‘total loss’ through faulty design and inexperience Livestock ships twice as likely to be lost as cargo vessels 2 November 2020
#Act4 AnimalsEU MEPs voice concern about the injury and suffering caused to animals during transport across Europe. EU struggles to hold Member States to account over animal transport breaches 30 October 2020
#Act4 AnimalsEU The ban on live sheep exports was only ever intended to be temporary. The ban on Australian live sheep exports has just been lifted. Here’s what’s changed 19 September 2019
#Act4 AnimalsEU Federal Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner is taking part in the European Agricultural Council in Brussels today. German Minister Klöckner calls for uniform application of the Animal Welfare Transport Regulation 11 July 2019
#Act4 AnimalsEU Ferry operator Stena Line is under pressure to stop transporting shipments of unweaned calves following the release of secretly filmed footage of young animals being brutalised at a “feed and resting” facility in France after their export from Ireland. Stena Line criticised over shipments of unweaned calves 12 May 2019
#Act4 AnimalsEU Since the provisional entry into force of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in September 2017, Canadian beef imports into the EU have rocketed from 267 tons in 2016 to 909 tons in 2018. Canada’s new rules on animal transport fall very short 10 March 2019 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 AnimalsEU Brexit is coming and, inevitably, so is the deadline for the UK and the EU-27 to conclude the withdrawal agreement. Barnier calls for a EU-UK Veterinary Area to lower checks on live animals 15 October 2018 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 AnimalsEU What is the Trade & Animal Welfare Project? Where did it come from? Why does it exist? Introducing the Trade and Animal Welfare Project 30 June 2017
