The motorway police are preparing for better controls of animal transports with training.
At the beginning of the week officers from the Osnabrück autobahn police took part in a special seminar and were trained by a veterinarian and the representative of an animal welfare organization, said the spokeswoman for the Osnabrück police department, Laura Brinkmann.
Hilter / Osnabrück - Such training courses are not only available in Lower Saxony, but also across Germany and across the EU.
Animal rights activists criticize the fact that animal welfare violations occur again and again during such transports, be it that there is not enough space, that the animals do not get enough food and water or that they are exposed to excruciating heat during long transports.
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There have been improvements in the transport of pigs within Germany in recent years, said Iris Baumgärtner from the animal welfare organization Animal Welfare Foundation.
Big points of criticism, however, are, for example, the transport of very young calves and animal transports to third countries in the EU.
Nobody there can check whether the EU's regulations are being complied with.
dpa