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Lochhead "encouraged" by Brussels foot and mouth meetings Print E-mail
Thursday, 27 September 2007

The export ban on Scottish meat products in the wake of foot and mouth took a step closer to being lifted after an “extremely positive” meeting between the government and the European Commission.

Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, put his case for the resumption of the Scottish export market to the Director General of the Heath and Consumer Protection Directorate General and the Deputy-Director General of the Agriculture Directorate General.

Lochhead also put the case for a welfare disposal scheme for light lambs destined for the export market.

"Our meetings with the European Commission were extremely positive and helpful in taking forward our case for both a welfare scheme for the backlog of lambs for which there is no export market and a rapidly diminishing feed supply, and also the crucial issue of re-opening the valuable export market for Scottish meat products as soon as possible,” he said.

“I conveyed to the European Commission, the serious economic, social and animal welfare issues that have arisen as a result of foot and mouth and the subsequent export ban on meat products.”

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