Traduction de «Abattage d'animaux » (Français → Anglais) :

before the 2001 crisis the Commission did not subject the arrangements for prevention and control of the disease to adequate evaluation that took account of the changes in the risk factors; as the Commission did not carry out comprehensive evaluations and inspections in time, a number of weaknesses in the prevention and control arrangements concerning protective measures at borders, animal feed, animal movements and notification of the disease were not corrected before the outbreak of the epidemic; during the crisis the Commission rapidly took the necessary emergency measures, such as notification of the disease to the Member States, ...[+++]surveillance and slaughter of sheep which had been imported from the United Kingdom before the crisis began, and the closure of markets; the shortcomings in the system and in its application in the Member States in respect of the number of vets, notification of the disease and the speed at which culling was carried out were identified by the Commission during the crisis but it was too late to remedy them; the way in which the Community financing system was applied during the crisis led to inconsistencies: the reimbursement rates for the various animal diseases have been aligned only for the pig sector; there were delays in reimbursements to Member States; during the crisis, in the absence of a more clearly defined Community framework, the Member States were able to introduce a variety of systems to compensate farmers, based on varying methods of assessing the value of the animals before slaughter; after the crisis many shortcomings were remedied; nevertheless, the financial framework has not been revised and a number of Community measures are still inadequate with regard to the supervision of farms, notification of disease and speed in culling; these could compromise the effectiveness of the prevention and control arrangements in containing a future epidemic, while the Community would be obliged to reimburse the expenditure ...

In the UK, where the vast majority of bovine animals over 30 months of age are destroyed under the Over Thirty Months Scheme (OTMS), BSE testing must be carried out on the following animals slaughtered under that scheme: all bovine animals subject to casualty slaughter, all animals over 42 months of age born after 1 August 1996 and subject to normal slaughter and a random sample of bovine animals born before 1 August 1996 and subject to normal slaughter

20. If the slaughterhouse does not have lockable facilities reserved for the slaughter of sick or suspect animals, the facilities used to slaughter such animals must be cleaned, washed and disinfected under official supervision before the slaughter of other animals is resumed.

To date, Community legislation in relation to the welfare of animals covers only animals bred or kept for farming purposes, protection of laying hens, calves and pigs, transport of animals, slaughter and killing of animals bred and kept for the production of meat, skin fur and other products and methods of killing animals for the purposes of disease control and protection of laboratory animals.

At the country's request, the Commission had authorised emergency vaccinations in the form of suppressive vaccination of FMD-susceptible animals (i.e. where the vaccinated animals were culled as soon as the bottlenecks as regards the capacity for slaughtering and disposing of carcasses had been overcome) and in the form of protective vaccination for cattle (without the vaccinated animals being subsequently culled).

In addition, the situation for older animals also needed to be addressed, given that this group of breeding animals has grown in numbers because of the lack of domestic slaughter capacity, the U. S. restriction on older cattle and meat and the restrictions on the slaughter of older and younger animals in the same plant.