Today, too many animals are transported under unacceptable conditions on European highways.

The most important issue is the duration of the transports. Current EU legislation allows for animals to be transported for several days. This has to be changed. Live animals for slaughter should never be transported for more than eight hours.

Number of signatories : 140 - 07/07/2011

Date opened : 06/06/2011

Lapse date : 06/10/2011

Number of signatories : 140 - 07/07/2011

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A written declaration is a text of a maximum of 200 words on a matter falling within the European Union’s sphere of activities.

Written declarations are printed in all the official languages, distributed and entered in a register.

MEPs can use written declarations to launch or relaunch a debate on a subject that comes within the EU’s remit.

A group of up to five MEPs can submit a written declaration by presenting a text to be signed by their colleagues.

If the declaration is signed by a majority of the MEPs, it is forwarded to the President, who announces it in plenary.

At the end of the part-session, the declaration is forwarded to the institutions named in the text, together with the names of the signatories.

It is included in the minutes of the sitting at which it is announced.

Publication in the minutes closes the procedure.

Written declarations are printed and posted on a board at the entrance to the Chambers in Strasbourg and Brussels.

Declarations are also published on Parliament’s website.

Declarations lapse after three months in the register if they have not been signed by at least half the MEPs.

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We now need supporters throughout the EU to contact their own regional MEP’s and ask that they support Written Declaration 0026/2011 on dog population management in the European Union.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch.do

We now have just a few months to get at LEAST HALF OF ALL MEP’s across Europe to support this declaration. We want to aim for at least 500 signatures.

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