Martin Ferris (Kerry North-West Limerick, Sinn Fein)
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Do the standards applied to imports in the regulations include traceability outside the EU as well as environmental controls in jurisdictions outside the EU? I refer to the conditions in which animals imported into the EU are held outside the EU, the environmental situation prevailing and traceability. Many of the problems we have had here relate to the fact that while we might have herd traceability we do not have individual traceability, which we would have within the EU. Are those regulations and measures applicable in similar circumstances outside the EU as they are within the EU?