Brussels, 12/09/2014 (Agence Europe) - A Commission proposal to revise the rules for the identification of horses was approved on Thursday 11 September by the experts of the member states of the EU, meeting within the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health.
The revised regulation provides for a more reliable and safer European system for the registration and identification of horses in the EU. The aim is to prevent the inadvertent or fraudulent slaughter for human...