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Consultation on new Regulations and code for Meat Chicken Welfare
Defra has launched a consultation on the draft Welfare of Farmed Animals and Mutilations (Permitted Procedures) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 and associated documentation, including a revised meat chicken welfare code. These Regulations implement Council Directive 2007/43 regarding meat chicken welfare.
The purpose of this consultation is to seek your comments on the draft Statutory Instrument, welfare code and and other associated documentation.
This consultation applies to England only. Separate consultations on similar provisions will be undertaken in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
The deadline for responses to this consultation is 20 April 2009.
- Consultation letter
- List of consultees
- Consultation on new Regulations and code for Meat Chicken Welfare (PDF, 50KB)
- Annex A: Council Directive 2007/43 (PDF, 75 KB)
- Annex B: Draft Statutory Instrument (PDF, 40 KB)
- Annex C: Industry Training requirements in Directive 2007/43/EC (PDF, 15 KB)
- Annex D: Implementation of the Meat Chicken Directive: Animal Health (PDF, 20 KB)
- Annex E: Implementation of the Meat Chicken Directive: Slaughterhouse Activity and Meat Hygiene Service (PDF, 15 KB)
- Annex F: Impact Assessment of Council Directive 2007/43/EC laying down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat (PDF, 110 KB)
- Annex G: Code of Recommendations for the Welfare of Livestock: Meat Chickens and Breeding Chickens (draft) (PDF, 115 KB)
- Summary of responses (PDF 85 KB)
Page last modified: 17 July 2009
Page published: 26 January 2009