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Berlin (dpa) - After criticism from Lower Saxony's Agriculture Minister Barbara Otte-Kinast (CDU) of dubious animal transports from Bavaria via Lower Saxony to Africa, Federal Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner asked the state to take a closer look.
The federal states are themselves responsible for approving and clearing animal transports, said the CDU politician on Monday in Berlin.
"And that's why I also call on Lower Saxony, and I am also glad that Ms. Otte-Kinast wants to take a closer look, that you are not a loophole and then help with such a transport".
In the state parliament on Thursday, Otte-Kinast threatened the authorities to intervene against an animal transport to Morocco, in which cattle from Bavaria are also to be brought to Africa via East Frisia.
The truck with the Bavarian breeding animals should have been dispatched directly in Bavaria, this type of cow tourism should end in Germany, the minister said.
She is against the fact that Bavarian authorities describe Lower Saxony as a “loophole” and assume that Lower Saxony authorizes transports that cannot be carried out in accordance with the law.
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