Correspondence

Animal Sentience Committee letter assessing changes to bovine identification, registration and movement

Letter from the Animal Sentience Committee to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee on the changes to bovine identification, registration and movement.

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
29 April 2024

Documents

Animal Sentience Committee letter assessing changes to bovine identification, registration and movement

HTML

Details

The Animal Sentience Committee sent this letter to the EFRA committee on 12 March 2024. It includes:  

  • an initial assessment of the changes to bovine identification policy and its potential impact on animal welfare 
  • recommendations to maintain the current policy implementation strategy, by not retroactively tagging existing stock with electronic identification ear tags (eID) and to monitor tag failure rates

You can read more about the work of the Animal Sentience Committee.

Published 29 April 2024