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Transport of horses from Spain to Italy, 27 th – 28 th January 2006 16:15 French police starts to gradually let the blocked trucks continue journey. 16:50 The observed horse truck continues journey. We ask the Gendarmes to conduct an inspection. Police check: Place: France, highway A 8, west of pay toll Antibes (near Nice). Time: approx. 18:15 – 18:48 One horse in the lorry is lying with his whole body stuck under the divider. Driver lifts up the hydraulic second level, in this way also the divider is lifted up. After approx. 20 minutes the gendarme and the driver manage to make the horse stand up by pushing him several times with the wooden end of a shovel. No injuries visible. Driver is told by gendarmes that this truck can only be used for bovines, not for horses. Gendarmes warn driver that it is illegal to travel with a blank route plan. The Gendarmes do not have time to issue a fine, as they are busy due to the traffic jam caused by all the blocked trucks. 18:48 Truck drives off in direction Italy. Driver stops for some minutes at one of the next gas stations. Again a horse is lying on the ground, this time in the trailer. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Place and date of report: Freiburg, 30.01.2006 © Copyright Animals’ Angels e.V. 18
It is extremely dangerous to drive in Italy due to heavy snow falls. 28.01.2006 Transport of horses from Spain to Italy, 27 th – 28 th January 2006 00:28 Truck takes exit for Reggio Emilia and follows sings for Correggio. 01:20 Arrival at a farm near Corregio. Now two horses are lying down in the trailer. One manages to get up before unloading starts. The other one is lying with his head under a partition and does not manage to stand up. During unloading the driver manages to make the horse get back up. The horse has some difficulties; after the first try to stand up, it breaks down again, but makes it at the second try. Horses appear to be stressed and exhausted, but we do not spot any injured horse. 6. Arrival at destination Date & Time of unloading at destination: 28.01.06, 01:50 o’clock Temperature: -2° Celsius Vet present: no vet; there is just a stable worker present II. CONCLUSIONS 1. Deficient veterinary checks at place of departure in Spain The veterinary service (1139715 Vitoria, 1103102 Zaragoza) at place of departure in Spain should not have authorized this transport as it was not in compliance with relevant legislation. 1.1 Regarding accompanying documents The veterinary services in Spain issued and stamped deficient accompanying documents. The following irregularities were detected: - the route plan accompanying the consignment of 17 horses (no.: INTRA.ES.2006.0001667) was not filled in. There was only the stamp of the veterinary service Alava (region Vitoria) and the name of the driver written on it. It is not known to Animals’ Angels, if the veterinary service itself stamped a blank route plan or if the transport company illegally got hold of the stamp. In any case, the veterinary service (1139715 Vitoria) should not have drawn up the health certificate, because no duly drawn up route plan was submitted by the transporter. - on both health certificate it was indicated that there was no route plan, even though a route plan was required - on the health certificate no. INTRA.ES.2006.0001682 issued by the veterinary service 1103102 Zaragoza the estimated journey time is indicated with 0.0 hours. This constitutes a violation of Council Directive 96/93/EC on the certification of animals and animal products. The competent Spanish authority did not take all necessary steps to ensure the integrity of certification as required in Art. 4 of Council Directive 96/93/EC. The irregularities found regarding the blank route plan additionally constitute a violation of Art. 5, section A, paragraph 2, lit. b, c and lit. d of Council Directive 91/628 EEC as amended by Council Directive 95/29 EC. 1.2 Regarding exceeded loading density and unsuitable partitions It must be presumed that the veterinary services in Spain were either not present during loading operations or did not pay the necessary attention to loading density and partitions. (please see point II.4 and 5). ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Place and date of report: Freiburg, 30.01.2006 © Copyright Animals’ Angels e.V. 19
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