date:Jun 22, 2012
common assessments of transport services, including watering devices and temperature monitoring.
Meanwhile ministers called on the Commission to use free trade negotiations with non-EU countries to offer trade benefits as a bargaining chip, forcing EU trading partners to toughen their animal welfare laws. This wouldlimit distortions of competition and aim at ensuring at least equivalence between EU and third-country operators, said the conclusions.
Ministers also called on Brussels officials