VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi’s People’s Committee would not abolish the new ban on the transport of cattle and poultry by motorbike, bike and cyclo. But, it would rewrite sentences in the legal document to make information about the ban clear to people, said Nguyen The Thao, committee chairman on Tuesday.

The changes were made after the Department for Legal Document Inspection exposed discrepancies in the committee’s new livestock transport and slaughter regulations.

The committee asked the municipal departments of Justice and Industry and Commerce to rewrite the regulations to make them clear, said Thao.

"The regulation that states that cattle and poultry must not be carried by motorbike or by vehicles without an engine is one example," said the chairman.

The regulation does not actually require that. The sentence has been clumsily worded. In fact, it means that people must keep cattle and poultry in a box when carrying them on these vehicles".

"These regulations are necessary to ensure food safety and hygiene so the department did not ask the committee to abolish them, only to change the wording," said Dr Le Hong Son, head of the Legal Document Inspection Department.

"The head of the city’s Justice Department and the head of the city’s Department for Industry and Commerce worked with officials at the Legal Document Inspection Department to reach agreement on changes to the bans," said Son.

The city also asked the Municipal Transport Department to design or write out specific criteria about how to transport poultry and cattle under the new regulations. The Department must report to the committee by the end of this month, said Nguyen Huy Tuong, deputy chairman of the Ha Noi’s People’s Committee.

"The city should also have a specific itinerary for the implementation of these regulations, and a support system for the people concerned so that they can gradually change their methods of transport and slaughter," said Long.

The committee will punish violations from March onwards.

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