June 2007
Publication of BirdLife International Report: Impact of Regulation 1774/2002 and European Commission decisions in 2003 and 2005 on carrion-feeding birds in the Iberian Peninsula, and possible solutions.
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“The current system is also leading to the collapse of a clean and efficient natural sanitary system replacing it with a much more expensive and polluting artificial one.”
“It would thus be appropriate to update the rules for handling animal by-products not eligible for human consumption in order to allow dead livestock to be removed to recognised locations or, as was previously the case with extensive livestock rearing, the abandonment in the wild where they are immediately consumed by carrion feeders.
