BRUSSELS ABANDONS PLANS TO SIMPLIFY LIVESTOCK RULES
June 8th, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Commission has abandoned reforms simplifying complex European Union (EU) legislation on veterinary checks for livestock plus registering and identifying sheep and goats.Brussels officials had wanted amendments to these laws rolled into two pieces of legislation, but the Commission failed to get backing from the EU Council of Ministers. It has now announced that it is withdrawing the proposals as “good legislative management.”The EU’s directive 89/662/EEC of 1989 concerning veterinary checks in intra-EU trade had been amended 16 times, forcing ...
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