Activities of Sofia RIBEIRO related to 2018/2110(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Protection of animals during transport within and outside the EU (debate) PT
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the implementation of Council Regulation No 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport within and outside the EU PDF (293 KB) DOC (114 KB)
Amendments (33)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas every year millions of animals are transported across Member States and to third countries over long distances to be brfor commercial purposes, which includes situations where they have to be bred, fattened or slaughtered;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas transport iscan be stressful for animals as it can exposes them to a potential range of challenges for hours at a time; whereas, as regards trade with third countries, particularly to Turkey, additional animal suffering iscan be caused by very long journeys including long stops at borders for checking documents, vehicles and animals;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. Whereas the farmer is the most interested part in order to maintain their animal fit for transport and is the part that has more to lose if the transport does not comply with the existing rules;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. Whereas the European Union is where the animals welfare is more respected and defended, and it is an example for the rest of the world;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Recalls that the Regulations (EC) No 1/2005 is a very good one, recognized by all stakeholders and players; Notes that there is always some space for improvement, specially the need of reinforcement, but the situations of non- compliance are residual;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. DeplorNotes the fact that the overall degree of progress in implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 by the Member States has been insufficient to meet the Regulation’s main objective, which is to improve animal welfare during transport, particularly in what is related with the journey logs and the application of penalties;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that a partial implementation is insufficient to achieve the Regulation’s overarching purpose of avoiding injury to or undue suffering of animals during transport; nonetheless, the percentage of injured/suffering animals is residual and an exception;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets that the CommissionMember States ignored Parliament’s resolution of 12 December 2012, and emphasises that stronger and harmonised enforcement with effective and dissuasive penalties is central to improving animal welfare during transport; further regrets that the Commission ignored the call made on it in that resolution to check the Regulation for incompatibilities with legal requirements in individual Member States;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that enforcement is particularly difficult when a journey passes through several Member States and when different Member States (i) approved the journey log,(ii) granted the transporter’s authorization, (iii) granted the vehicle’s certificate of approval and (iv) granted the driver’s certificate of competence; calls on Member States which discover breaches to notify all the other Member States involved, as required by Article 26 of Regulation 1/2005 so that they can prevent recurrence of the breaches;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that repeated infringements should lead to prosecution, penalties including the confiscation of vehicles, and compulsory retraining of those responsible for the welfare and transport of animals, and this should be harmonized through the European Union;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. RecCalls on the Member States to make a more effective use of the strong enforcement powers given to Member States under the Regulation, including the power to require transporters to establish systems to prevent the recurrence of breaches and to suspend or withdraw a transporter’s authorisation;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for increased cooperation between competent authorities to strengthen enforcement by using technology to create a real-time feedback loop between the Member State at the point of departure and the Member State at the point of arrival; takes the view that should animals which started out in a good state of fitness arrive in a poor state of fitness, then the exporter company must be immediately warned and in case of being a recurrent one, should be penaliszed;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to disseminate best practices for the transportation of livestock to Member States; welcomes the cases where governments, scientists, businesses and national competent authorities have worked together to define best practices in order to ensure compliance with the requirements of the legislation, like the “Animal Transport Guide” website, among others;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the importance of distinguishing the responsibility of animal transport undertakings from the responsibility of farmers, since such undertakings should be held accountable for problems arising from the transport of animals and not from farmers; recalls that farmers are the most interested in animal welfare, for emotional, affection, but also economic reasons;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. DeploRegrets the difficulty of carrying out a coherent analysis of the implementation of the Regulation that exists owing to differing approaches to data collection between Member States; calls on the Commission to set common minimum standards for tracing systems regarding all journeys in order to allow better harmonised data collection and assessment of the parameters monitored; calls on Member States to step up their efforts to supply the Commission with harmonised, comprehensive and complete data on transport inspections and infringement levels;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Is concerned at the, although still few situations, number of reports of inappropriate vehicles being used to transport live animals by both land and sea, and calls for the monitoring of such practices to be stepped up;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls the Member States to create new structures and adapt their ports and vessels, in order to improve the conditions of animal welfare in the animal maritime transportation, even during the transport;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for the reduction, as much as possible, of animal journey times, specially outside EU border, in particular long and very long journey times, by employing alternative strategies, such as economically viable local slaughter facilities, replacing the transport of breeding animals by using semen or embryos, and transportation of carcasses and meat products, as well as by means of legislative initiatives in Member States to facilitate on-farm slaughter;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges the Commission to support, where needed, the construction of economically viable slaughter facilities within Member States sAsks to the Member States to create conditions, if possible and when necessary, in order to thatve the animals are slaughtered as close as possible to their place of rearing;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to develop a strategy to shift from live transport to a major meat-and-carcasses-only trade, given the environmental, animal welfare and food safety impact of live animal transport for countries outside the Union;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Insists that animal welfare legislation should be based on science and the latest technology; deplores the fact that, despite clear recommendations from EFSA and Parliament’s request in its 2012 resoluticalls on, the Commission has failed to update the rules on animal transport with the latest scientific evidence; calls on the Commission, therefore, to update the rules on the basis of the latest scientific knowledge and technology, in particular as regards factors including sufficient ventilation and cooling in all vehicles, appropriate drinking systems, particularly for unweaned animals, and specific minimum headroomto update the rules on the basis of the latest scientific knowledge and technology;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to develop a full working definition of what constitutes fitness, and to provide robust training courses, education and certification to farmers, drivers and veterinarians, border agents, in order to reduce the high levels of fitness infringement in Member States;
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Commission to avoid adding further conditionalities to farmers, since they are already in large numbers and in the obligations and already include issues related to animal welfare; Believes that the actual CAP budget is clearly insufficient and that all new requests for farmers must be linked to an increase in the CAP budget;
Amendment 365 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Recalls that according to the study on the impact of Regulation(EC) 1/2005 on the protection of animal during transport, more than 80% considered that the regulation has improved transport quality as a whole and around 90% of the improvements is in long distance and international animal transport are outside European borders;
Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Is concerned at persistent reports of animal welfare problems in third countries; calls on the Commission and Member States to promote astudy the possibility to shift towards the transport of meat or carcasses, instead of live animals, to third countries;
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. DeploRegrets the fact that the standards practised by third countries are not as high as those within the EU; calls on the Commission to strengthen the existing requirements vis-à-vis the Union’s trading partners, especially regarding trade in animals;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Deplores the often lengthy delays at borders and the increased pain and distress for animals that they cause; calls on the Member States to better plan their journeys and to communicate each-others to avoid concentration of animal trucks transporting animals at the borders, cause of severe animal health and welfare problems;
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Stresses that unlessin the case of the animal transport standards in third countries are not aligned with those of the EU, live animal transport journeys to third countries should be forbiddenthe subject of bilateral agreements to mitigate these differences;
Amendment 429 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Calls the Commission and the Member States to use the full potential of the new technologies like the GPS, tachographs that could register the time of the travel and even some information related with temperature, quantity of water, quality of air, etc, inside the vehicles;