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Commission Regulation (EC) No 504/2008 of 6 June 2008 implementing Council Directives 90/426/EEC and 90/427/EEC as regards methods for the identification of equidae (Text with EEA relevance) (repealed)
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1.This Regulation lays down rules on the identification of equidae:
(a)born in the Community; or
(b)released for free circulation in the Community in accordance with the customs procedure defined in Article 4(16)(a) of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92.
2.This Regulation shall be without prejudice to:
(a)Regulation (EEC) No 706/73 and Decision 96/78/EC; and
(b)measures taken by Member States to register holdings keeping equidae.
1.For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions in Article 2(a) and (c) to (f), (h) and (i) of Directive 90/426/EEC and Article 2(c) of Directive 90/427/EEC shall apply.
2.The following definitions shall also apply:
(a)‘keeper’ means any natural or legal person having ownership of, or in the possession of, or charged with the keeping of, an equine animal, whether or not for financial reward, and whether or not on a permanent or on a temporary basis, including during transportation, at markets, or during competitions, races or cultural events;
(b)‘transponder’ means a read-only passive radio frequency identification device:
complying with standard ISO 11784 and applying HDX or FDX-B technology; and
capable of being read by a reading device compatible with standard ISO 11785, at a minimum distance of 12 cm;
(c)‘equidae’ or ‘equine animals’ means wild or domesticated soliped mammals of all species within the genus Equus of the family Equidae, and their crosses;
(d)‘unique life number’ means a unique 15-digit alphanumeric code compiling information on the individual equine animal and the database and country where such information is first recorded in accordance with the coding system of the Universal Equine Life Number (UELN) and comprising:
a six-digit UELN-compatible identification code for the database referred to in Article 21(1); followed by
a nine-digit individual identification number assigned to the equine animal.
(e)‘smart card’ means a plastic device with an embedded computer chip capable of storing data and transmitting them electronically to compatible computer systems.
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