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"Mr President, Commissioner Byrne, the incredibly detailed draft regulation that we are debating this morning is a perfect example of a useless text. There are already sensible provisions regulating the transport of animals and favouring their well-being, which is one of the characteristics of the European agricultural model. The only problem is that these provisions are not adequately applied everywhere and are not monitored enough. Rather than, however, ensuring that there is better application and control – too difficult a task – the Commission decided that it was more rewarding for it to once again rush headlong into regulation by presenting us with this hefty new tome which concedes to the most radical demands of the ideological lobbies whose influence it is under.
The major repercussions that its wording could have on our transporters and breeders are of little importance to the Commission. It is not visibly the problem of the European Commission which, as is its wont, does not even think about providing, alongside the legislative project, a study of the impact of the measures that it is proposing on the activity of the professionals concerned. We had lengthy discussions in the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development about how steep access ramps to livestock trucks should be. Should they be no steeper than 33.3% in relation to the horizontal, or 30% for pigs, calves and horses, and no steeper than 50% or 30% for sheep and cattle other than calves, provided that the ramps are equipped with cleats at intervals of no more than 30 centimetres? All that remains to be taken into account is the friction coefficient of the hooves on the ramp. This gap will certainly be filled in the next draft regulation submitted to us by the Commission.
Frankly, is it really our role to overburden our producers, breeders, transporters and wealth and employment creators with such meticulous instructions and to force them into such a tight straightjacket? Is it not downright suicidal to establish such heavy burdens and such costly constraints only upon European economic operators in a context of free trade where we ourselves are managing without regulatory instruments? Is that not working to benefit third countries, discourage our producers and encourage imports?
Despite the few common-sense remarks inserted by the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, such as the need to slaughter livestock as close as possible to the place of rearing, the structure and the spirit of the Commission regulation basically remain intact. This is why, Mr President, we will vote against this damaging text."@en1
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