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1.Member States of dispatch shall take the necessary measures to ensure that:
[F1(a) the holders of livestock and products referred to in Article 1 comply with the national or Union health requirements referred to in this Directive at all stages of production and marketing;]
(b)the animals and products referred to in Annex A are checked at least as carefully, from a veterinary viewpoint, as if they were intended for the national market, unless specifically provided otherwise by Community rules;
(c)animals are transported in suitable means of transport which satisfy hygiene rules.
2.The competent authority of the Member State of origin which issued the certificate or document accompanying the animals and products shall communicate, on the day on which they were issued and by means of the computerized system provided for in Article 20, to the central competent authority of the Member State of destination and to the competent authority of the place of destination, data to be determined by the Commission, according to the procedure provided for in Article 18.
[F13. Member States of dispatch shall take the appropriate measures to penalise any infringement of veterinary legislation by natural or legal persons where it is found that Union rules have been infringed, and in particular where it is found that certificates, documents or identification marks do not correspond to the status of the animals or to their holdings of origin or to the actual characteristics of the products.]
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F1 Substituted by 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).
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