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2120 final report.pdf - Agra CEAS Consulting

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THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE VARIOUS SYSTEMS TO KEEP LAYING HENSA1.1.5.3. Demand and supply elasticitiesThere is no data on supply and demand elasticities.A1.1.6. Impact of Directive 1999/74/ECA1.1.6.1. Implementation to dateFollowing the adoption of the legislation at EU level Austria introduced a complex system oflegislation governing the welfare requirements for laying hens. Currently each of the nine Länder hasits own rules. Broadly speaking the western Länder (Vorarlberg, Tirol, Salzburg, Carinthia plusVienna – which in any case has no production,) have all adopted a total ban on caged production ofany kind and this has been in place with varying dates of implementation starting in 2001. For thevery limited amount of caged production which existed in these Länder, transitional supports(enabling producers to write off their investment) were introduced. Burgenland has legislated for atotal ban in 2008. For the other 3 Länder (Upper and Lower Austria and Steiermark) caged systemsare still allowed.A Federal animal welfare law was adopted by a two-thirds majority in the Austrian Parliament at theend of May 2004. This legislation bans the use of conventional cages from 2009 onwards and the useof enriched cages from 2019. It also bans investment in enriched cages from 1 January 2005.A1.1.6.2. Expected implementationAs is indicated above a number of Austrian Länder have pre-empted the EU Directive by introducingcage bans earlier than required under the EU legislation. These regions, which in any case hadrelatively little caged production, are already in compliance with the requirements for 2012. For theregions which have not introduced cage bans to date the new national legislation will force them toremove conventional caged systems by 2009 but they will continue to be able to operate enrichedcages until 2019. Until now the sector has not been undertaking any investment since it has beenawaiting both the outcome of the Federal Government’s legislative initiative and the review of theEuropean legislation. Thus there has to date been virtually no production/investment in enrichedcages taking place although some equipment manufacturers have been trying to encourage this.115

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