15. Calls on the Commission to integrate, on a systematic basis, the relevant impact assessments for all animal protection measures; considers that all impact assessments relating to new animal protection standards must examine all of the ethical, social and economic effects and must be based on the latest scientific knowledge, practical experience and developments at the international level; considers that these should highlight positive effects and take full account of the way in which different factors, such as animal protection, ...[+++] sustainability, animal health, the environment and product quality, impact on each other;

6. Shipments of waste covered by Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002, as amended, regarding health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption, which are subject to similar or stricter procedural provisions in that Regulation and other linked Community legislation on animal and public health are excluded from the procedural requirements of this Regulation.

* Studies on the carry-over and establishing pertinent transfer factors for the different PCBs and PCDD/F from soil, sediment and feedingstuffs to animals tissues, including fish (e.g meat, fat) and products (e.g milk and eggs). Particular attention needs to be paid to the dioxin-like PCBs :

The most important gaps in knowledge concern : 1) transfer and degradation processes (a better understanding and quantification of the fundamental transfer processes by which dioxins and PCBs move between the different environmental media and of the degradation processes occurring within these media is needed); 2) bio-accumulation and bio-magnification processes; 3) domestic incineration of wood (there is an information deficit concerning the amount and the composition of wooden fuels used for room heating and cooking purposes); 4) reservoir sources (the contribution to hu ...[+++]man exposure, the behaviour and degradation processes and decontamination methods require examination); 5) open uses of PCBs; 6) carry-over rates and transfer factors for dioxins and PCBs from soil and feed to animal tissues and products (milk, eggs).

- Determination of transfer factors for dioxin-like PCBs from soil and feedingstuffs to animal tissue and products (milk) for cattle (ruminants)

- Determination of transfer factors for PCDD/F from soil and feedingstuffs to animal tissues and products for cattle (ruminants)