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 3Traceability of captive birds

Article 76Obligations on operators keeping psittacidae as regards the means and methods of identification of those animals, their application and use

1

Operators keeping psittacidae shall ensure that those animals are individually identified where they are moved to another Member State by one of the following means of identification:

  1. (a)

    a leg ring as listed in point (h) of Annex III attached at least to one leg of the animal with a visible, legible and indelible display of the identification code of the animal;

or

  1. (b)

    an injectable transponder as listed in point (e) of Annex III with legible and indelible display of the identification code of the animal;

or

  1. (c)

    a tattoo as listed in point (g) of Annex III applied to an animal with a visible and indelible display of the identification code of the animal.

2

Operators keeping psittacidae shall:

a

ensure that the means of identification referred to in paragraph 1(b) is approved by the competent authority;

b

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 in case the means of identification referred to in paragraph 1(b) has not been approved by the competent authority.