The issue of kosher slaughter in Poland ‘’is currently being examined by the constitutional court,” …………

“I hope the verdict will protect religious rights, so that no one in our country feels limited. This is very important to us,” he said, after Edelstein insisted that Poland must respect religious freedom and reject laws forbidding Jewish rituals like circumcision and kosher slaughter.

Kosher and halal slaughtering were both banned in Poland after the Constitutional Court, ruling in November 2012 on a motion from animal rights groups, deemed it incompatible with animal rights legislation.

In order to enshrine ritual slaughter in Polish legislation designed to streamline the way that Polish procedures correspond with EU rules, the Polish government drafted regulations to again allow ritual slaughter. But in July, the Sjem, the Polish parliament, rejected the government bill that would have reinstated the practice.

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