TITLE IIdentification and registration of bovine animals

Article 7

1

With the exception of transporters, each keeper of animals shall:

  • keep an up-to-date register,

  • F1report to the competent authority all movements to and from the holding and all births and deaths of animals of the holding, together with the dates of those events, within a maximum period fixed by the F3appropriate Minister concerned; that maximum period shall be at least three days and not exceed seven days following the occurrence of one of those events; F4....

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3

Each keeper shall supply the competent authority, upon request, with all information concerning the origin, identification and, where appropriate, destination of animals, which he has owned, kept, transported, marketed or slaughtered.

4

The register shall be in a format approved by the competent authority, kept in manual or computerised form, and be available at all times to the competent authority, upon request, for a minimum period to be determined by the competent authority but which may not be less than three years.

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By way of derogation from paragraph 4, keeping a register shall be optional for any keeper who:

a

has access to the computerised database provided for in Article 5 which already contains the information to be included in the register; and

b

enters the up-to-date information, or has it entered, directly into the computerised database provided for in Article 5.

6

To ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information to be included in the holding register provided for in this Article, the F6appropriate Minister may make regulations to lay down the necessary rules concerning that information F7....