The transitional duration (till 2040) supplied within the Animal Welfare Act, all through which pigs may just nonetheless be stored in unstructured, totally slatted pens, used to be thought to be too lengthy (17 years) and objectively unjustified. With this resolution, the Constitutional Courtroom authorized an utility by means of the federal government of the federal state of Burgenland. The corresponding provision of the Animal Coverage Act will subsequently be repealed on June 1, 2025.
In 2022, the Nationwide Council determined in an modification to the Animal Welfare Act that, beginning in 2040, unstructured, totally slatted pens with out a useful house (i.e. with out a separate mendacity house) might be prohibited in all pig rearing amenities. To offer making plans safety for present enterprises and to offer protection to the investments made, a transition duration till 2040 used to be established. The ban already applies to new methods as of January 1, 2023.
Following this resolution of the Austrian Constitutional Courtroom, the Minister for Animal Welfare and Client Coverage, Johannes Rauch, is asking for the transition duration for the appliance of the ban to finish in 2030.
January 8, 2024/ vfgh/ Austria.
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