**5. Conclusions**

This was the first study documenting farm animal movements from Northern Europe to Greece transiting through a control post and their subsequent welfare outcomes as assessed by OVs. Only 0.8% of the trucks reported a case of mortality or morbidity and lambs transported with minimal space allowance proved to be at higher risk of poor welfare. Due to the aforementioned limitations, our findings should be considered preliminary. Further studies should be carried out in more CPs and in other countries to confirm our data. Further studies should also assess welfare on individual transported animals to identify risk factors and to analyze welfare outcomes among transported animals, comparing the welfare assessment based on official reports versus the scientific welfare assessments suggested in more recent literature.

**Supplementary Materials:** The following are available online at http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/8/9/155/s1, Figure S1: Trends of the number of trucks by year and species and by month and species, Figure S2: Association between species and nationality of Transport Company and destination, Table S1: Wald test *p*-values generated from univariate regression analysis, Table S2: Results of the GLM with year, month, season, species and category as factors and number of animals transported per truck (NATT) as dependent variables. Results expressed as Least Square means ± standard error.

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, B.P. and D.T.; Methodology, D.T.; Formal Analysis, B.P. and S.C.; Investigation, D.T.; Data Curation, D.T., S.C.; Writing—Original Draft Preparation, B.P.; Writing—Review & Editing, B.P., D.T, S.C., and G.B.; Visualization, S.C.; Supervision, G.B.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Acknowledgments:** The authors thank the director, Francesco Siciliani, and technicians at the control post for their valuable help during the work and for the consent to publish the data. The authors are also grateful to Anthony Green for his assistance with the editing of the manuscript.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
