Table 11.

Distribution of farms in which cows have access to an outdoor loafing area and/or pasture reported in epidemiological studies for individual EU‐MSs

Country (Region)	Sample size	% Farms	Access to	Reference
AT	1,851	50.0 (a)	Outdoor loafing area	Pöllinger et al. (2018)
DE (North)	253	5.9 (85.4) (b)	Outdoor loafing area and/or pasture	PraeRi (2020)
DE (East)	252	17.5 (71.4) (b)
DE (South)	260	8.8 (48.8) (b)
NL	174	9.2	Outdoor loafing area	de Vries et al. (2015)

^(a)Only outdoor areas < 10 m² per cows were counted as outdoor loafing area.

^(b)Farms providing only access to outdoor loafing area (in brackets farms providing outdoor loafing area and/or pasture).