08.11.2010
Agriculture Minister Jim Paice announced the laying of two regulations on poultry welfare:
No eggs will be imported from European countries that haven’t complied with the conventional cage ban after 2012.
UK farming leaders welcomed the robust attitude taken by UK Farming Minister Jim Paice on the possibility of eggs produced by inferior systems coming into this country from other EU countries.
The fear of UK farming leaders is that those countries that have not upgraded their battery cages to comply with higher welfare standards due to come into force in 13 months will still be able to send their eggs into this country.
Broilers: a maximum legal stocking density for chickens of 39 kg/m2 will be established. This will provide a good baseline for our already high standards of poultry welfare.