Austrian Greens invoke ban on protection training in Austria - End of protection sports?

[Tempus Fugit]

Wonder if this is the beginning of the end of protection sport:

 

We inform you about the regulation of the Federal Minister of Health regarding detailed provisions on the training of dogs in accordance with animal welfare regulations, Federal Law Gazette II No. 56/2012, which is amended as follows:  

The following paragraph 4 is added to Section 2: "(4) The training of dogs for protection purposes (protection dog training) as well as other comparable training and sporting activities of dogs which involve aggressive behaviour directed against humans or against objects carried by humans or biting training directed against humans are prohibited.  

 

This ban does not apply to

1. the training of dogs that are proven to be used as service dogs by the federal government,
2. biting or gnawing at objects that are clearly distinguishable from the human body, such as ropes, balls, Frisbees or similar objects, as well as
3. the continuation of these types of training if they were started with the dogs in the last six months before the entry into force of this regulation and if complete signal control over the trained behaviour has not yet been achieved; these trainings are permitted solely for the purpose of achieving signal control over the behaviour, must not encourage any further attack behaviour or biting training directed against humans and must in any event be completed by 1 September 2025 at the latest." 

[Dogsfevr]

Not a surprise at all if people are following the animal welfare aspects of Europe & people should be worried