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