PURPOSE: to codify Council Directive 91/630/EEC on laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Directive 2008/120/EC laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs (Codified version).
CONTENT: the purpose of this directive is to codify EU provisions on Council Directive 91/630/EEC laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs. In codifying legislative acts that have been amended frequently the EU is seeking to both simplify and clarify EU legislation.
The Directive will supersede the various acts incorporated in it. It fully preserves the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together, with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 10/03/2009.