COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Religious freedom

Advocate General says requirement for ritual slaughtering to be carried out in an approved slaughterhouse does not infringe right to religious freedom

Regulation 1099/2009 on the protection of animal welfare at the time of slaughtering, according to which ritual slaughtering without stunning must be carried out in an approved slaughterhouse, does not infringe the right to religious freedom as provided for in the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, according to Advocate General Nils Wahl in findings published on Thursday 30 November (Case C-426/16).

This was Wahl's response to a preliminary question from the Dutch-speaking Court...