- Animals in transport require more space, lower temperatures and shorter journeys to ensure adequate protection.
- The opinions found that, overall, providing more space, lowering maximum temperatures, and keeping journey times to a minimum are all needed to improve the welfare of farmed animals during transport.
- On the back of a series of recent high-profile incidents of livestock being stranded at sea, the EU executive is also preparing, under the existing legal framework, tertiary legislation to improve official controls on livestock vessels, expected to be adopted at the end of 2022.
Shorter, cooler journeys needed to protect animals in transport, says EU agency
