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)

ANNEX I U.K. RECOGNITION OF BREED SOCIETIES AND BREEDING OPERATIONS AND APPROVAL OF BREEDING PROGRAMMES REFERRED TO IN CHAPTER II

PART 1 U.K. Requirements for the recognition of breed societies and breeding operations referred to in Article 4(3)(b)

A. Breeders' associations, breeding organisations, private undertakings operating in closed production systems and public bodies shall: U.K.

1.

have legal personality in accordance with the legislation in force in the [F1 constituent territory of the United Kingdom] where the application for recognition is made;

2.

have sufficient and qualified staff and adequate facilities and equipment to implement efficiently the breeding programmes in respect of which it intends to apply for approval in accordance with Article 8(3) F2 ... ;

3.

be capable of carrying out the checks necessary for recording pedigrees of the breeding animals to be covered by those breeding programmes;

4.

have, in respect of each breeding programme, a sufficiently large population of breeding animals F3 ...;

5.

be capable of generating, or have had generated for them, and be capable of using data collected on breeding animals necessary for carrying out those breeding programmes.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Annex 1 Pt. 1 Point A.1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 15(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Words in Annex 1 Pt. 1 Point A.2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 15(2)(ba) (as inserted by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 28(14)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in Annex 1 Pt. 1 Point A.4 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 15(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)