RESPONSE TO DEFRA CONSULTATION ON BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS, ISSUED ON 15TH SEPTEMBER 2010 AND CLOSING ON 8TH DECEMBER 2010.

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Question 1 – Comments are invited on the options, costs and assumptions made in the Impact Assessment.

　

　

　

　

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Question 2 – Do you agree with the preferred option?

　

Question 3 – Do you agree that this approach, of issuing licences to farmers/landowners, is the most appropriate way to operate a badger control policy?

　

Question 4 – Do you agree with the proposed licensing criteria for culling and vaccination?

　

Question 5 – Do you agree that the proposed methods of culling are effective and humane?

　

Question 6 – Do you agree with the proposed use of vaccination, particularly its focus on mitigating the perturbation effects of culling?

　

Question 7 – Should anything further be done to encourage the use of vaccination?

　

Question 8 – Do you agree with the proposed monitoring?