Export Of Horses And Ponies After 1992

EDM number 303 in 1989-90, proposed by Harry Greenway on 15/01/1990.

That this House abhors the prospect of a resumption in the export of horses and ponies to continental abattoirs after 1992; urges the European Community (the European Commission, European Parliament and all member states) to recognise that the ending of British export controls linked to minimum values would mean the rounding up of Dartmoor and other wild ponies for degrading and wholly unfamiliar transport to and across Europe; and calls for changes to proposed European Community measures on the protection of animals during transport, in order to maintain restrictions which avoid cruel treatment to British horses and ponies during long journeys and at continental slaughterhouses.

This motion has been signed by a total of 180 MPs, 6 of these signatures have been withdrawn.