Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004Dangos y teitl llawn

Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 of 17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC

Article 4U.K.

1.All animals on a holding born after 9 July 2005 [F1or for Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia the respective date of accession] shall be identified in accordance with paragraph 2 within a period to be determined by the [F2appropriate Minister] as from the birth of the animal and in any case before the animal leaves the holding on which it was born. That period shall not be longer than six months.

By way of derogation [F3the appropriate Minister] may extend the period, which may not, however, exceed nine months, for animals kept in extensive or free-range farming conditions.F4... F5...

2.(a)Animals shall be identified by a first means of identification which complies with the requirements of Section A.1 to A.3 of the Annex, and,

(b)by a second means of identification approved by the competent authority and conforming to the technical characteristics listed in Section A.4 of the Annex.

(c)However, until the date referred to in Article 9(3), the second means of identification may be replaced by the system set out in Section A.5 of the Annex, except in the case of animals involved in [F6export to a Member State].

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3.However for animals intended for slaughter before the age of 12 months and intended neither for [F6export to a Member State] nor for export to third countries, the identification method described in Section A.7 of the Annex may be authorised by the competent authority as an alternative to the means of identification mentioned in paragraph 2.

4.Any animal imported from a third country, which has undergone after 9 July 2005 [F1or for Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia the respective date of accession] the checks laid down by Directive 91/496/EEC and which remains within the territory of [F8Great Britain] shall be identified, in accordance with paragraph 2, at the holding of destination where livestock farming is carried out within a period, to be determined by the [F9appropriate Minister], of no more than 14 days from undergoing those checks and, in any event, before leaving the holding.

The original identification established by the third country shall be recorded in the holding register provided for in Article 5 together with the identification code allocated to it by the [F10competent authority].

However, the identification provided for in paragraph 1 is not necessary for an animal intended for slaughter if the animal is transported directly from the veterinary border inspection post to a slaughterhouse F11... where the checks referred to in the first subparagraph are carried out and the animal is slaughtered within five working days of undergoing those checks.

5.Any animal originating in [F12a] Member State shall retain its original identification.

6.No means of identification may be removed or replaced without the permission of the competent authority. Where a means of identification has become illegible or has been lost, a replacement bearing the same code shall be applied as soon as possible in accordance with this Article. In addition to the code and distinct from it, the replacement may bear a mark with the version number of the replacement.

However, the competent authority may, under its control, allow the replacement means of identification to bear a different code, provided that the objective of traceability is not compromised, in particular in the case of animals identified in accordance with paragraph 3.

7.The means of identification shall be allocated to the holding, distributed and applied to the animals in a manner determined by the competent authority.

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9.Until the date referred to in Article 9(3), [F14where the appropriate Minister has] introduced electronic identification on a voluntary basis in accordance with the provisions of Section A.4 and A.6 of the Annex [F15, the appropriate Minister] shall ensure that the individual electronic identification number and the characteristics of the means used are mentioned in the relevant certificate pursuant to Directive 91/68/EEC accompanying animals involved in [F6export to a Member State].

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