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) (c. 1012)

CHAPTER VII U.K. Zootechnical certificates

Article 31 U.K. Derogations from requirements concerning the issuing, content and format of zootechnical certificates for trade in breeding animals and their germinal products

1. By way of derogation from Article 30(2)(a), the competent authority may authorise that germinal products are to be accompanied by a zootechnical certificate issued, on the basis of the information received from the breed society or breeding operation, by a semen collection or storage centre, or by an embryo collection or production team, approved [F1 by the competent authority in accordance with animal health law in force in the constituent territory of the United Kingdom].

2. By way of derogation from Article 30(6)(b), the competent authority may authorise the non-use of the model forms referred to in Article 30(6)(b) provided that:

(a) in the case of breeding animals of the bovine, porcine, ovine and caprine species, the information set out in Chapter I of Part 2 of Annex V or Chapter I of Part 3 of Annex V is contained in other documents accompanying those breeding animals, issued by the breed society or breeding operation;

(b) in the case of germinal products of the bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine and equine species:

(i)

the information related to the donors of those germinal products is contained in other documents or in copies of the original zootechnical certificate accompanying those germinal products or, before or after the dispatch of those germinal products, it is, on request, made available by the breed society or breeding operation or the other operators referred to in paragraph 1;

(ii)

the information related to the semen, oocytes or embryos is contained in other documents accompanying that semen, those oocytes or those embryos, issued by the breed society or breeding operation or the other operators referred to in paragraph 1.

3. By way of derogation from Article 30(7)(a) and (b) and Article 30(8)(a) and (b), where the results of performance testing or genetic evaluation are publicly available on a website, breed societies, breeding operations or the other operators referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article may, in the zootechnical certificate or in the documents referred to in point (a) of paragraph 2 of this Article, refer to the website where those results can be accessed.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 31(1) substituted (31.12.2020) The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 8(2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 28(5)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)