HC Deb 23 March 1979 vol 964 c258W
30. Mr. Corbett

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he expects to announce his conclusions on the departmental review of the export of live animals for slaughter or further fattening published on 23 March 1978.

Mr. John Silkin

In finalising their views, the Government must take into account the outcome of the Commission's proposals, now before the EEC Council of Ministers, for implementing directive 77/489 in detail and the response awaited from the Commission to my proposal that the directive should not permit farm animals intended for slaughter to travel for more than 12 hours on their final journey to the slaughterhouse.

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