The federal health of animals regulations, part XII on the transport of animals, applies to all live animal movements into, within and outside of Canada.

32. Acknowledges that the EU has in place strict regulations on animal transport, which meet the need for high animal welfare standards and disease prevention and control measures; urges that those high standards be fully implemented by all Member States; believes that the standards should be met by countries exporting animal products to the EU in order to promote and ensure high standards of animal welfare and health globally; points to the potentially heightened risks involved in the long-distance transport of live animals, which has the potential to spread disease and which hampers disease ...[+++]control where inadequate disease prevention measures are in place; is therefore of the opinion that sanitary and animal welfare rules concerning the transport of live animals should be intensely controlled and tightened if deemed necessary; calls for the swift introduction of an integrated electronic European animal registration system, including GPS tracking of lorries; believes that the quality of transport is more important than its duration for animal welfare;

32. Acknowledges that the EU has in place strict regulations on animal transport, which meet the need for high animal welfare standards and disease prevention and control measures; urges that those high standards be fully implemented by all Member States; believes that the standards should be met by countries exporting animal products to the EU in order to promote and ensure high standards of animal welfare and health globally; points to the potentially heightened risks involved in the long-distance transport of live animals, which has the potential to spread disease and which hampers disease ...[+++]control where inadequate disease prevention measures are in place; is therefore of the opinion that sanitary and animal welfare rules concerning the transport of live animals should be intensely controlled and tightened if deemed necessary; calls for the swift introduction of an integrated electronic European animal registration system, including GPS tracking of lorries; believes that the quality of transport is more important than its duration for animal welfare;

11. Is critical to the current system of export subsidies for transport of live animals, and to enhance transparency, proposes to change the nomenclatures of the budget lines on export subsidies for B1-210 (beef and veal), B1-2300 (live swine), B1-2311 (poultry) by introducing new budget lines covering the transport of live animals; proposes to reduce the export subsidies for beef and veal in order to reduce transport of live animals;

Concerning the control of animal transport rules, Commission Regulation (EC) No 615/98 of 18 March 1998 laying down specific detailed rules of application for the export refund arrangements as regards the welfare of live bovine animals during transport stipulates that the payment of export refunds for live bovine animals is subject to compliance, during the transport of the animal up to the first place of unloading in the country of final destination, with the welfare provisions of Council Dir ...[+++]ective 91/628/EEC of 19 November 1991 on the protection of animals during transport amending Directives 90/425/EEC and 91/496/EEC and Regulation (EC) No 615/98.

Export of live animals from the EU to third countries: In relation to exports of livestock, Council Regulation 615/98/EC makes the granting of an export refund for cattle conditional on the satisfactory implementation of protective provisions during transport (no such refunds exist for transportation inside the EU).