EU JUDGES SAY SLAUGHTERHOUSES CAN FORCE VETS TO BE PRESENT ON SUNDAYS IF ‘OBJECTIVELY NECESSARY’
November 1st, 2014
EUROPEAN Union (EU) judges have ruled that slaughterhouses within the EU can only insist that public authorities provide a veterinarian supervising slaughtering on Sundays or public holidays, if it is “objectively necessary” this work happens on those days.The European Court of Justice (ECJ) however refrained from giving a precise definition of what circumstances would indicate this necessity, and said that national courts would have to decide.Its ruling came in a Cypriot case, interpreting EU regulation (EC) No 854/2004 (amended by regulation (EC) No ...
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