Brussels, 24/04/2015 (Agence Europe) - European rules on protecting animals during transport must be observed in any part of a journey that takes place outside the territory of the EU, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled on Thursday 24 April in case C-424/13.
When a German company submitted an application for customs clearance for a consignment of cattle to be transported by road to Uzbekistan, a journey of 7,000 kilometres, the competent authorities rejected the application. They insisted...