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The Environment Secretary has launched a call for evidence for a potential ban on the live export of animals for slaughter once the UK leaves the EU.

The transport and delivery routes for livestock production must be closely monitored.

The European Court of Auditors is currently examining whether action by the European Commission and the Member States has made an effective contribution to achieving the EU's animal welfare objectives.

These new guides aim to provide practical advice to professionals to ensure that the animals they transport remain in good welfare.

The proposal, initiated by Culture Viande together with the IFIP, the ANSES and the DGAL, and with the help, at a European level, of the UECBV, has been voted favourably.

Practical EU guidelines to assess the fitness of pigs for transport have now been translated into several official languages by the EU Commission in Brussels to help professionals ensure that pigs are in a fit state to be transported.

The MAPAMA reports that all the prevention measures implemented in 2014 in the face of the circulation of serotype O in the North of Africa are still in force.

Representatives from the Canadian Pork Council were in Ottawa to address the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food about amendments to Health of Animals Regulations with respect to humane transportation.

Commission said it intended to have the platform operational in the first half of 2017 as a forum of discussion for all stakeholders.

During the last meeting of the Council of Ministers of Agriculture of the EU, ministers discussed the need to improve the enforcement of existing legislation on animal welfare during transport and whether existing legislation in this area should be updated.