On August 24 Royal Decree 695/2022 got here into impact which establishes measures for the keep watch over of animal welfare in slaughterhouses during the set up of video surveillance techniques. Small slaughterhouses could have an extra 12 months to enforce those measures.
Slaughterhouses should have a video surveillance gadget that may permit animal welfare controls to be performed along with the ones already performed in those institutions. This may occasionally permit higher keep watch over of compliance with the necessities of present law on animal welfare on the time of slaughter and similar operations.
The set up of video surveillance techniques for the keep watch over of animal welfare will function a device for each slaughterhouse operators and the government supervising compliance with animal welfare laws. On the other hand, the usage of video surveillance techniques does no longer relinquish the remainder of the controls that the slaughterhouse operator has to hold out on the subject of animal welfare based on the laws in power.
With this measure, Spain is a pioneer within the EU within the obligatory set up of video surveillance techniques for the keep watch over of animal welfare in all slaughterhouses within the nation.
August 24, 2023/ AESAN/ Spain.
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