Live animal export Ramsgate

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Animal and Plant Health Agency should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Animal and Plant Health Agency,

Please can you provide the following paperwork for livestock truck that passed through Ramsgate port on Wednesday 23rd August 2017.

Cab registration 24BFZ7
Trailer registration ON70VT

Loading point Carlisle
Destination Schelle Belgium

1. Journey Log WIT07- Both the Log submitted prior to the journey and the Log submitted after the journey had taken place.
2. The Vehicle/Livestock Inspection Report WIT32
3. All Intra Trade Animal Health Certificates
4. Any WIT08 or WIT09 notices served
5. If any animals were refused loading, the ET45 form

Please could you also advise as to whether this vehicle received an inspection by APHA at Ramsgate Port?

Yours faithfully,
Ann Adley

Enquiries APHA, Animal and Plant Health Agency

Ref: ATIC1158

Dear Ms Ann Adley

Thank you for your request for information about a live animal export,
which we received on 4 September 2017.  Your request is being considered
in respect to the access to information legislation.

As required by the legislation, we aim to answer your request within 20
working days from the date we received it.  If for any reason we are
unable to meet this deadline we will keep you fully informed of the
reasons for this.

In the meantime, if you have any queries, please contact the Access to
Information Team at the email address below.

 

ACCESS TO INFORMATION TEAM

[1][Animal and Plant Health Agency request email]

 

 

Enquiries APHA, Animal and Plant Health Agency

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Ref: ATIC1158

Dear Ms Ann Adley

Thank you for your request for information about a live animal export,
which we received on 4 September 2017.  Please see our response attached.

 

ACCESS TO INFORMATION TEAM

[1][Animal and Plant Health Agency request email]

 

 

Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)

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Dear Enquiries APHA,
Thank you for the information but you have not sent a copy of the journey log submitted prior to loading although you state that it in appendix one.
Please forward as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,

Ann Adley

Enquiries APHA, Animal and Plant Health Agency

Ref: ATIC1158

 

Dear Ms Ann Adley

 

The Journey Log submitted prior to the journey taking place is section 1
(pages 1 and 2) of Appendix 1, which has been supplied to you. The
returned journey log is the remaining sections (pages 2 to 6) of Appendix
1.

 

Kind regards

 

ACCESS TO INFORMATION TEAM

[1][Animal and Plant Health Agency request email]

 

 

 

 

Dear Enquiries APHA,

If animals are exported but not going direct to slaughter facilities, how many days between arrival at facilities and slaughter are allowed before they are classed as fattening not slaughter when issuing the correct ITAHC?
Please provide definitions for: Assembly centre / Dealers Premises / Holding.
This consignment was not inspected at loading but was classed as ‘High’ risk on the WIT 59. Why therefore did no inspection take place at loading?
On the WIT 59, Section, ‘Vehicle Details’, there is a total of 6 omissions, why didn’t APHA complete the WIT 59 fully at the port, considering there was no inspection at point of loading?
Why was the second page of the WIT 59 not completed with the ITAHC reference number or total number of animals?
Where (e.g. Assembly centre) was it determined that two animals would not be exported due to lameness? At what time on 22/08/17 were the animals inspected, resulting in the two lame animals being rejected?
Why is time spent on the Joline classed as rest? 1/2005 states time on a ro-ro ferry is not rest.
What was the reason for a 3 hour ‘rest’ at Calais?
Do APHA consider it possible for animals to become lame during a live export journey? If yes, please provide an explanation and provide the rules for treating lame animals.
As per the ITAHC, please provide the route plan of this export. The complete journey states 13 hours. The trucks did not reach French shores until 13 hours later, before continuing the journey to Belgium. Why did APHA accept 13 hours for the full journey?
On the original Journey log, not the actual journey log, APHA approved the transportation of 350 animals in a 33m2 area. This equates to 11 animals per m2. Why was this provisionally approved?
Section 2 ‘Place of departure’, is not signed off by an official body,please explain the reason why not

Yours sincerely,

Ann Adley

Enquiries APHA, Animal and Plant Health Agency

Ref: ATIC1181

Dear Ms Ann Adley

Thank you for your email below, which we received on 5 October 2017.  Your
email has been considered in respect to the Freedom of Information Act
2000.

I can advise you that most of your enquiries do not fall within the
definition set out in section 84 of the Act as they require explanations.
The remaining elements within your email that do, we will treat in
accordance with the FOI legislation.

For the sake of completeness the Access to Information Team will provide a
response to all of your enquiries/requests. If you have future enquiries
for explanations in this area you can contact the Welfare in Transport
Team directly at: [1][email address]

As required by the legislation, we aim to answer your request within 20
working days from the date we received it.  If for any reason we are
unable to meet this deadline we will keep you fully informed of the
reasons for this.

In the meantime, if you have any queries, please contact the Access to
Information Team at the email address below.

 

ACCESS TO INFORMATION TEAM

[2][Animal and Plant Health Agency request email]

 

Enquiries APHA, Animal and Plant Health Agency

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Ref: ATIC1181

Dear Ms Ann Adley

Thank you for your email below, which we received on 5 October 2017. 
Please see our response attached.

 

ACCESS TO INFORMATION TEAM

[1][Animal and Plant Health Agency request email]

 

 

Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)

This email and any attachments is intended for the named recipient only.
If you have received it in error you have no authority to use, disclose,
store or copy any of its contents and you should destroy it and inform the
sender.
Whilst this email and associated attachments will have been checked for
known viruses whilst within APHA systems we can accept no responsibility
once it has left our systems.
Communications on APHA computer systems may be monitored and/or
recorded to secure the effective operation of the system and for other
lawful purposes.

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