Content and structure of Swedish animal welfare legislation and private standards for dairy cattle

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Table I. Percentage of requirements classified as pure resource-, management-, or animal-based, or as a mixture of these, in the animal welfare legislation and three private standards in Sweden. The sums do not reach 100% for each regulation due to the existence of requirements about administration or other not-classifiable requirements.

Type of requirement	Legislation (%)	KRAV (%)	Seal of quality (%)	Arlagården (%)
Pure resource-based	35	17	19	11
Pure manage-based	23	30	28	40
Pure animal-based	0	1	1	4
Resource- and management-based	13	22	21	17
Resource- and animal-based	9	4	3	13
Animal- and management-based	6	6	15	11
Resource-, management- and animal-based	7	14	6	2

Figure 1. Percentage of requirements in the animal welfare legislation and private standards that contains of resource-, management- and animal-based requirements. The total sum is above 100% due to mixtures between these categories in several paragraphs.