LIVE TRANSPORTS
October 1st, 2001
KEITH NUTHALLBRITISH hauliers may not in future find themselves at such a competitive disadvantage with eastern European competitors regarding the commercial transport of animals, because of a planned updating to a Council of Europe welfare convention.Its commitments apply to countries both outside and within the European Union, where hauliers already have to comply with expensive rules on trailer standards, journey times, rest periods and the watering and feeding of livestock.If, as planned, the convention is updated next year, tougher welfare rules would also ...
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