Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-16-Speech-4-028"
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"en.20041216.5.4-028"2
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the previous speaker mentioned the internal market, but the internal market must be judged by whether or not it operates in a humane way, and by what its effects are not only on human beings but also on other creatures.
Where animal transports are concerned, the issue is clear: whom does it benefit when animals are transported over long distances? It is to the benefit of mass livestock farming, a form of livestock farming that will get Europe nowhere. What we need is not just the right measures, but also stringent checks, and this is where the attitude of the Member States cannot be described as anything other than truly shameful. If we are to have these checks, we need an infrastructure, and this infrastructure also means resting points, for which we must make provision, and loading stations where vehicles must be obliged to dock when the provisions on the protection of animals in transit are breached. That must be enforced, and we – this House and the Commission – must together require the Member States, once and for all, to implement in practice a new strategy for agriculture."@en1
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