1 Amendments of John BOWIS related to 2008/0180(CNS)
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) Mobile slaughterhouses reduce the need for animals to be transported over long distances and therefore may contribute to safeguarding animal welfare. Member States should thus support and encourage the further development as well as an increase in the use of mobile slaughterhouses. However, technical constraints for mobile slaughterhouses differ from fixed slaughterhouses and technical rules may need to be consequently adapted. Therefore, this Regulation should provide for the possibility to establish derogations exempting mobile slaughterhouses from the requirements on construction, layout and equipment of slaughterhouses. provided that animal welfare is not compromised. No later than 1 January 2013 the Commission will submit a legislative proposal on increasing the use if mobile slaughterhouses within the Community.