Regulation (EU) 2016/1012 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilDangos y teitl llawn

Regulation (EU) 2016/1012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on zootechnical and genealogical conditions for the breeding, trade in and entry into the Union of purebred breeding animals, hybrid breeding pigs and the germinal products thereof and amending Regulation (EU) No 652/2014, Council Directives 89/608/EEC and 90/425/EEC and repealing certain acts in the area of animal breeding (‘Animal Breeding Regulation’) (Text with EEA relevance)

4.The following derogations shall apply to the requirements for the recognition of breed societies of purebred breeding animals of the equine species:U.K.

(a)

F1...

(b)

By way of derogation from point 3(a) of this Part, where the principles of the breeding programme are established exclusively by an international organisation operating at a global level and where there is [F2no breed society or breeding body in the United Kingdom or a third country] that maintains the breeding book of the origin of that breed, [F3a competent authority in the United Kingdom] may recognise breed societies maintaining a filial breeding book for that breed, provided that they lay down the objectives and criteria referred to in point 1(h) of Part 2 in accordance with the principles established by that international organisation and that those principles are:

(i)

made available by that breed society to the competent authority referred to in Article 4(3) for verification purposes;

(ii)

incorporated in the breeding programme of that breed society.

(c)

By way of derogation from point 3(b) of this Part, a breed society maintaining a filial breeding book may establish additional classes according to merits, provided that the purebred breeding animals of the equine species which are entered in the classes in the main section of the breeding book of the origin of the breed or of other filial breeding books of the breed may be entered in the corresponding classes of the main section of that filial breeding book.

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