Regulation (EU) 2016/1012 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Article 7 U.K. Lists of recognised breed societies and breeding operations

1. [F1 The competent authority] shall draw up and keep up to date a list of breed societies and breeding operations that [F2 they] have recognised in accordance with Article 4(3) and which have at least one breeding programme that has been approved in accordance with Article 8(3). [F1 The competent authority] shall make that list available to the public.

2. The list provided for in paragraph 1 shall include the following information:

(a) the name, contact details and, where available, the website of the breed society or breeding operation;

(b) for each breed society or breeding operation on that list:

(i)

in the case of purebred breeding animals, the name of the breed, or, in the case of hybrid breeding pigs, the name of the breed, line or cross, covered by each of its breeding programmes approved in accordance with Article 8(3), and, where the breed society makes use of the derogations referred to in Article 19 or point 2 of Chapter III of Part 1 of Annex II, a reference to those derogations;

(ii)

F3 ...

(iii)

in the case of purebred breeding animals of the equine species, where applicable, the name and contact details of the breed society which maintains the breeding book of the origin of the breed;

(iv)

for each of its breeding programmes, where available, a reference to a website where information on those breeding programmes can be accessed.

[F4 3. Where the competent authority itself carries out a breeding programme, this must be included in the list provided for in paragraph 1.]

4. Where the recognition of a breed society or a breeding operation is withdrawn in accordance with point (e) of third subparagraph of Article 47(1) or the approval of a breeding programme is suspended or withdrawn in accordance with point (d) of third subparagraph of Article 47(1), [F5 the competent authority] shall, without undue delay, indicate that suspension or withdrawal in the list provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article.

Where, for a period of 24 months, that recognition remains withdrawn or that approval remains suspended or withdrawn, [F5 the competent authority] shall definitively remove that breed society, breeding operation or breeding programme from the list provided for in paragraph 1.

[F6 5. A competent authority may lay down, and publish on a website, model forms for the presentation of the information to be included in the list of recognised breed societies and breeding operations provided for in paragraph 1.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 7(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 4(4)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Word in Art. 7(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 4(4)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Art. 7(2)(b)(ii) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 4(4)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4 Art. 7(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 4(4)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F5 Words in Art. 7(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 4(4)(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F6 Art. 7(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 11(2) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)