Billions of live animals are transported within the 🇪🇺 and beyond every year.🚛
However, member states enforce EU animal transport rules unevenly.
👉Over one third of these animal journeys last more than eight hours and welfare standards are not always upheld.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1647978429407547396
👉In 2021, EU farmers reared:
◽️76 million cattle
◽️142 million pigs
◽️60 million sheep
◽️11 million goats
together with billions of poultry and other animals, ranging from rabbits to horses.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1647980496012423169
In terms of duration, the majority of animal transport within the EU in 2017-2021 was comprised of:
◽️Short journeys (63 %)
◽️Long journeys (33 %)
◽️Very long journeys (4 %)
Poultry are usually transported on short journeys while horses tend to travel longer journeys.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1647981144095244294
In 2017-2021, cross-border animal transport (both in terms of number of animals and weight) consisted of:
🇪🇺 86 % intra-EU movements
🌍13.5 % exports outside the EU
⬅️0.5 % imports from non-EU countries.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1647980799608647681