Animal welfare: Transport - Guidance on the rules
Guidance on the rules
Summary
A summary of the main requirements of the Regulation is available.
Main guidance
Guidance on The Welfare of Animals
During Transport Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005
(312 KB) on the protection of animals during transport.
This is a living document that will develop in light of experience implementing the Regulation.
Technical and detailed annexes
Part 2 of the guidance (which is referred to in the main guidance) contains technical and detailed annexes exploring in more depth some of the requirements of the Regulations. These are available below:
Fitness to travel
- Guidance Fitness to Travel (2A)
(113 KB)
Vehicle specifications
- Livestock (2B)
(46 KB) - Horses and ponies (2C)
(44 KB) - Poultry (2D)
(36 KB) - Other vertebrate animals (2E)
(36 KB) - Navigation system (2F)
(38 KB)
Transporting animals by air or sea
- Transporting animals by air (2G)
(51 KB) - Shipping farm livestock and
horses in containers (2H)
(60 KB) - Animal shipments on Roll-on
Roll-off vessels (2I)
(61 KB) - Shipping farm livestock and
horses on livestock vessels (2J)
(57 KB)
Other annexes
- Technical rules for control posts
(2K)
(32 KB) - Training and competence requirements
(2L)
(44 KB) - Journey logs (2M)
(57 KB) including a worked example
(2.2 MB. Please note this is a large file)
Enforcement of the welfare during transport rules
We welcome feedback on the guidance to improve later versions. Please send any comments to: aw-transport@defra.gsi.gov.uk
- EU welfare in transport regulation homepage
- Vehicle inspection and approval scheme
- Transporter documentation
- Training and competence certification
- Publicity
Page last modified:
June 12, 2008
