1. Practical guidelines to assess fitness for transport of adult bovines: A stakeholders’ initiative

2. Initiative by UECBV and Eurogroup for Animals, First condition for good transport: good preparation and FIT ANIMALS General Aim:  improving AW  avoiding distortion of competition Means: producing guidelines very practical to use, easy to understand by all S/H Prepared by a small group of representative S/H

3. ANIMALS ANGELS COPA – COGECA ( European farmers and agri- cooperatives) ELT (European Livestock Transporters) FVE ( Federation of Veterinarians of Europe) INSTITUT DE l’ELEVAGE IRU (International Road Transport Union) OTHER STAKEHOLDERS

4. Establishment of TORs (June 2009) Working groups ( 6 meetings)  drafts Drafts open to comments from the member organizations Final draft to be endorsed officially by SH Presentation to the Commission services Future: ? WORKING METHOD and TIMETABLE

5. For all operators To help them to decide if an adult bovine is fit for transport To better understand requirements of Reg. 1/2005 Practical and user-friendly: photographs, coding system NOT A LEGAL DOCUMENT Not to be used to make a diagnosis Do not replace legal obligations Tool at European level, national legislation to consider Purpose of the Guidelines

6. Introduction: definitions, warnings, coding signs Part I: Summary of European legislation Part II: Animal conditions prohibiting transport Part III: Animal conditions where further assessment is needed before transport Annexes: Regulatory references, measures to take when animal unfit, example of generic contingency plan, example of specific contingency plan Contents

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8. Part II

9. Part III

11. State of play UECBV, Eurogroup for Animals, Animals Angels, IRU, ELT and FVE endorsed the draft guidelines. COPA-COGECA decided not to proceed with such an initiative due to the lack of an unanimous consensus among their members and therefore did not endorse the draft guidelines. The WG Sec. asked the European Commission for help for the final edition, translation and diffusion of the document whose vocation is to be widely distributed to all European operators of the bovine sector, in order to improve compliance with requirements of Regulation (EC) 1/2005 and especially those of Annex I, Chapter I. The Commission are discussing if the guidelines are in line with the SANCO view on animal welfare during transport.