The implementation of a paper-based traceability system at individual animal level is likely to be costly and time‑consuming, particularly in those Member States where there are high volumes of movements of sheep and goats.

In the early 1990s the Commission identified a number of ways in which the transit system was dysfunctional: in particular there was a lack of coordination between the administrations and departments involved and a lack of consistency resulting from the multiplicity of systems, the existing systems were slow and a paper-based system was not adequate to combat fraud effectively (circulation of the transit documents lasts much longer than the movement of the goods they cover). Subsequently numerous studies stressed the need to reform the system to respond to the growth of trade flows.

All producers of pulp, paper and converted tissue products shall have a system for the handling of waste(4) and residual products arising from the production plants.

33.7 per cent, and Quebec and the provinces have had to absorb this 10.6 per cent shortfall, with great difficulty.

But certainly the legacy systems we've had and the process we've followed to complete them have taken a considerable amount of time.

However, they found out that when they instituted those programs, they were not as costly as they thought they would be because many costs have been absorbed into their health care systems already, either privately, where they shift from public to private pockets, or there is a certain amount of support in those systems that is already paid.