The Farm Investment Scheme (FIS)does not achieve important improvements in the behavioural aspect of animal welfare at the farm level. Although there are some meliorations in the dairy farms, these are mainly due to the abandonment of tethered-stalls – a husbandry form which is due to become extinct even without policy intervention
in the middle run. At the pig farms, restriction of animal behaviour is a much more severe problem and the FIS can not account for any improvement.