Policy Officer The NGOs position 24102013 Main positive changes Other changes Slaughter without stunning Member States Obligations Implementation and enforcement Questions and conclusions ID: 404034
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Dr Michel COURAT Policy Officer
The NGO’s position
24/10/2013Slide2
Main positive changes
Other changesSlaughter without stunning
Member States Obligations
Implementation and enforcement Questions and conclusions
Overview
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IG 24/10/2013-Slide3
Certificate of competence and AW Officer
Monitoring procedures:
especially important
for slaughter without stunning.
Guides of Good Practice (article 13)
Standard Operating Procedures
Equivalent rules for importing third countries.
Stricter national rulesNew rules for slaughter without stunning
Main positive changes
1st
January
2013
Reg (EC)
1099/2009Slide4
Other Changes
It is a regulation, not a directive
AW Business
operators responsibilityStunning and restraining equipmentApproved stunning/killing methods listed
: Annex ICreation of a
scientific support
in
each MSaughterSlide5
Other Changes
New standards
on construction, layout, and equipment
integrated in the approval process Possible controls of Technical indicatorsKilling for disease controlsSlide6
Slaughter without stunning
Scope:Amphibians, reptiles, cephalopods
, decapod
crustaceans outFish: general provisions onlyCultural or sportive events out of scopeKilling on farm Use of aversive CO2 for pigsWater bath stunners not phased out ( use of live shackling, prestun
shocks, inconsistent stunning, inconsistent bleeding, etc)Slide7
1) Still allowed :
Article 10 Charter of Fundamental rights of the EU2) Use of
Rotative
box study due before 8 December 2012…°°°°°Slaughter without stunning
BUTSlide8
Specific
training for sacrificatorsCertificate of competence
AW Officer
Guides of Good Practice ( article 13)Standard Operating ProceduresIndividually restrainedRuminants mecanically restrainedTwo carotids to be severedEquivalent rules for importing third
countriesStricter national rules
Slaughter without stunningSlide9
Main point:
Monitoring proceduresSYSTEMATIC
Controls showing loss of consciousness or sensibility before animals are released from the restraining system, and no signs of life before start of dressing* must be systematicIt means that if this provision is strictly respected, as it could take several mns (up to 14!), before the animal dies, the speed of the line for ritually slaughtered animals without stunning will be very slow, and
thus incompatible with usual commercial speeds
Slaughter without stunningSlide10
Obligations of MS
Establishing new system of training + Issuing Certificates of Competence
Encouraging preparation
Guides of Good practice and assessing themEstablishing the scientific support and the contact pointEstablishing rules on penaltiesSlide11
Obligations of MS
Adapting the national law
as necessary
Assessing standard operating procedures (SOPs)Assessing Monitoring proceduresDeveloping information with business operators regarding restraining and stunning equipmentSlide12
Implementation & Enforcement
Conference organised by Commission and UECBV late October 2012Evaluation of preparation : 19/27 responses !
0 Guide Good Practices validated ( 1 in February 2013)
80 % ( out of 19 MS) have a system of certificate of competence50% ( out of 19 MS) have established a scientific supportSlide13
Implementation & Enforcement
Real situation in some countries unknownVery limited info from equipment
manufacturers
Training of inspection services still incompleteOn 1st January 2013, only 4 countries were considering they were almost ready: DK, DE, SE, UKSlide14
EXAMPLES OCTOBER 2013
UK: AW regularly checked by OVs
, COC in place, AWO in place,
slaughter without stunning not frequentSweden: no slaughter without stunning; GGPs?, AW NGOs not consulted; no info regarding
COC; scientific support establishedSlovenia: slaughter without stunning forbidden
(small
Jewish and Muslim communities
) Germany: GGPs ?Slide15
EXAMPLES OCTOBER 2013
Finland : slaughter without stunning does not exist: animals are stunned at the time of slaughter, under vet supervision; COC just started ; GGPs exist for bovines, pigs, poultry , fur animals,
but AW NGOs not
associatedGreece: GGPs exist, AW NGOs not consulted; COC: ministry not aware; monitoring stunning or slaughter without stunning done by vets not staff; no scientific support(Denmark), Austria
: Post cut stunning Slide16
EXAMPLES OCTOBER 2013
France: No GGP validated, NGOs consulted only to comment draft for
bovines
; certificate of competence: not enough staff to do the trainings; slaughter without stunning normally only for religious customers, but controls? Monitoring procedures: apparently no change but transparency? Netherlands: only 1 guide GGP validated: AW NGOs not associated to the preparation; slaughter without stunning: was about to be banned, but the procedure failed; procedures must be in place, with supervision by the OV; certificates of competence (COC): courses exist also for AW Officer, staff without COC will be
sanctioned from this autumn onwards; scientific support?Slide17
Questions et conclusions 1
No country is 100% complying, some are very far from
compliance:
“ Most MS are still in the process of adapting the existing programmes or implementing new training programmes according to the new requirements” ( FVO)“Most MS have initiated modifications to their supervisory systems ( FBO Ownership)”(FVO)8 hygiene audits in 2013 including slaughter: only 1 problemOnly 1 FVO audit on AW ( Estonia) in 2013Why different attitude compared with Laying hens or sows??Slide18
Questions et conclusions 1
2) On the whole , on the paper, it is
rather a good text
(except slaughter without stunning). BUT WHO WILL ENFORCE IT ? Less and less vets, threats on their future role ( “Modernization of meat inspection”) ?3) Slaughter without stunning: if the legislation is strictly implemented, commercial speed cannot be respected any longer, and thus an evolution will be necessary ( lobbying on religious communities to accept prior or post cut stunning,
or …not respecting the law !)Slide19
Questions & conclusions
Is the text applicable
?compatible with line speed ( esp birds) ??Signs of unconsciousness or death not yet determined (EFSA)Is it reasonable to transfer the ownership of AW to the FBO ?
HACCP example: serious or farce?Various scandals or frauds: horsegate
; pork instead of beef, forbidden sheep in cutting plants…
Waiting for food poisoning??Slide20
Questions &
conclusions
6
) CCAs and OVs have a key role to play to enforce the new legislation and to improve AW in abattoirs. Do they have the willingness and the means to do it ? Will they have the willingness and the means to do it?7) With such an uncertainty, is it reasonable to prepare a programme of modernisation of meat inspection which will
fragilise the role of veterinarians..? Slide21
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