Theresa42
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I think the lower house in the Egyptian Parliament -- the People's Assembly -- will also have to approve this bill before it becomes law ... I think ....
Google-translated from Arabic:
Shura approve the law live birds
May 1, 2007
Magdi Samaan and Mona Abuallnasr
The Shura Council yesterday approved a draft law to regulate the circulation and sale of live birds, which gives the government the right to take the necessary action to confront disease avian influenza and other infectious diseases.
Delegate Bill, Minister of Agriculture the right to make decisions banning the sale or transfer or trading of live poultry, or types in cities and provinces set by the minister, only for slaughter in the massacres licensed massacre, and under the supervision of the competent veterinary administration.
The bill authorizes the seizure by administrative means bird violation and transported to the nearest abattoir licensed to verify safety, and executes live birds slaughtered and proving that safety and suitability for human consumption at the expense of the violator with the application of the penalty contained in the law.
The law punishes the offender liable to a penalty of not less than 6 months and a fine of not less than one thousand pounds and not more than 10 thousand or a fine, but if the offense is repeated violator be shut shop for three months, and [shut] down in the final event of a repeated for the third time.
He stressed Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture, to ban the sale and circulation of live birds would not extend to villages, and therefore will not withdraw the punishment stipulated in the law on nannies poultry in homes [i.e. backyard poultry] and rural markets, pointing out that the law will be applied in the big cities first.
http://208.109.248.104/article.aspx?ArticleID=56899
Google-translated from Arabic:
Shura approve the law live birds
May 1, 2007
Magdi Samaan and Mona Abuallnasr
The Shura Council yesterday approved a draft law to regulate the circulation and sale of live birds, which gives the government the right to take the necessary action to confront disease avian influenza and other infectious diseases.
Delegate Bill, Minister of Agriculture the right to make decisions banning the sale or transfer or trading of live poultry, or types in cities and provinces set by the minister, only for slaughter in the massacres licensed massacre, and under the supervision of the competent veterinary administration.
The bill authorizes the seizure by administrative means bird violation and transported to the nearest abattoir licensed to verify safety, and executes live birds slaughtered and proving that safety and suitability for human consumption at the expense of the violator with the application of the penalty contained in the law.
The law punishes the offender liable to a penalty of not less than 6 months and a fine of not less than one thousand pounds and not more than 10 thousand or a fine, but if the offense is repeated violator be shut shop for three months, and [shut] down in the final event of a repeated for the third time.
He stressed Amin Abaza, and Minister of Agriculture, to ban the sale and circulation of live birds would not extend to villages, and therefore will not withdraw the punishment stipulated in the law on nannies poultry in homes [i.e. backyard poultry] and rural markets, pointing out that the law will be applied in the big cities first.
http://208.109.248.104/article.aspx?ArticleID=56899
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