PART IIITRACEABILITY OF KEPT TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS AND HATCHING EGGS

TITLE VTRACEABILITY OF KEPT DOGS, CATS AND FERRETS, CAMELID AND CERVID ANIMALS, CAPTIVE BIRDS AND TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS IN TRAVELLING CIRCUSES AND ANIMAL ACTS

CHAPTER 1Traceability of kept dogs, cats and ferrets

Section 1Means of identification

Article 70Obligations on operators keeping dogs, cats and ferrets as regards the means and methods of identification of those animals, their application and use

Operators keeping dogs, cats and ferrets shall ensure that:

  1. (a)

    those animals are individually identified by an injectable transponder as listed in point (e) of Annex III when they are moved to another Member State;

  2. (b)

    the injectable transponder intended for implantation in the animal is approved by the competent authority;

  3. (c)

    they provide to the competent authority and where necessary to other operators the reading device which enables at any time the verification of the individual identification of the animal where the implanted injectable transponder has not been approved by the competent authority.