• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • EYES ON ANIMALS – Watching out for their Welfare
  • English
  • Nederlands
  • Deutsch

Eyes on Animals

Watching out for their Welfare

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
DONATE
  • About us
    • What we do
    • Our team
    • Key Figures
    • Contact
  • News
    • Latest news
    • Good news
    • Bad news
    • Featured news
    • Subscribe to our newsletter
  • Inspections
    • Farms
    • Markets
    • Transports
    • Slaughterhouses
    • Special projects
    • Other
  • Training
    • Police
    • Truck drivers
    • Poultry-catchers
    • Slaughter personnel
    • Training Material
    • Request a training
  • Industry Tips
    • Animal transport
      • Cattle
      • Pigs
      • Poultry
    • Slaughterhouses
      • Cattle
      • Pigs
      • Poultry
      • Ritual slaughter
    • Educational videos
  • Publications
    • In the media
      • Print
      • Television
      • Radio
      • Videos
    • Newsletters
    • Special reports
    • Training Material
    • Annual reviews
  • Future Vision
  • Help us
Home » Our inspections » transport » Meeting with Dutch Ministry: Importance of access during transport

Meeting with Dutch Ministry: Importance of access during transport

April 4, 2013

P1060679Today Eyes on Animals and a livestock chauffeur with 33 years experience met with the authorities from the Dutch Ministry of Economics and the nVWA (Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority) to again stress the importance of livestock trucks being built to allow access to the animals during transport. After releasing our report in December 2012 on the legal and practical reasons for why trucks must be designed this way, today the purpose of the meeting was to find out how the Dutch authorities will tackle this problem. More and more trucks in the Netherlands, both closed ones (with air-conditioning or forced ventilation) and normal ones, are being built without access doors, meaning the chauffeur has extreme difficulty accessing animals in need during transport. With closed ones, there is the additional problem of chauffeurs and inspectors not being able to check on each animal easily.
We held a very positive meeting with everyone sharing the same view and concerns. The Dutch authorities are now going to attend to this problem and instructions for approving vehicles for animal transport will be made more stringent regarding access. A focus will also be put on the need for better visual inspection of animals during transport, so that the chauffeur and inspectors can quickly check on the animals inside, and if necessary provide first-aid that become unfit during the journey.
Eyes on Animals together with the Animal Welfare Foundation in Germany are planning on meeting soon with the German and Danish authorities on this same issue, as these two countries are also faced with more and more of these types of trucks that do not provide adequate access. KAALE in the UK are keeping the British authorities informed about this topic, as many of these closed trucks without access doors are seen regularly on the boat between the UK and the European continent.

  • share 
  • tweet 
  • share 
  • save 
  • email 

Filed Under: transport

Primary Sidebar

Search

Featured

hungry and exhausted calves on long distance transport

Calves not given any milk for over 30 hours

Investigations by Eyes on Animals, Ethical Farming Ireland and L214 reveal that young calves, … [Read More...] about Calves not given any milk for over 30 hours

Featured

A second slaughterhouse in Samsun (TR) interested in stunning

A positive video message from Asalet (Eyes on Animals Turkish trainer and inspector) in Samsun, … [Read More...] about A second slaughterhouse in Samsun (TR) interested in stunning

Our most recent newsletter

Dear friends and supporters,

Thanks to donors like you, we have been able to greatly intensify our efforts in Turkey.

We have been busier than ever giving animal-welfare training sessions at slaughterhouses.

 

Read more…

Subscribe to our newsletter

Eyes on Animals op Twitter

Twitter feed is not available at the moment.

ANBI

Footer

Donate with Paypal

Paypal Eyes on Animals
One-time donation:
Monthly donation:

Reading Material

  • In the Media
  • Newsletters
  • Special EonA reports
  • Legislative texts
  • ANBI

Our Amsterdam Office

Amsterdam House Hotel
Eyes on Animals main office is in downtown Amsterdam, at the Amsterdam House Hotel. The generous and warm-hearted hotel owner donated to Eyes on Animals, free of charge, a beautiful room where our inspectors can work, hold meetings and store their material.

Copyright © 2023 · Eyes on Animals | Website by Webkompaan