Bovine Animals and Swine (Amendment) Regulations, 2016

L.N. 9 of 2016

VETERINARY SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 437)

Animal Health Problems Affecting Intra-Community Trade in

Bovine Animals and Swine (Amendment) Regulations, 2016

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 8 of the

Veterinary Services Act, the Minister for Sustainable Development,

the Environment and Climate Change has made the following

regulations:-

(1)

The title of these regulations is the Animal Health Citation and

Problems Affecting Intra-Community Trade in Bovine Animals and scope.

Swine (Amendment) Regulations, 2016, and these regulations shall

be read and construed as one with the Animal Health Problems S.L. 437.48

Affecting Intra-Community Trade in Bovine Animals and Swine

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose and

implement Directive 2014/64/EU of the European Parliament and of

the Council amending Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards

computer databases which are part of the surveillance networks in the

Member States.

Sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (3) of Amends

regulation 14 of the principal regulations shall be substituted by the regulation

the principal

following

regulations.

"(i)

for each animal

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the unique identification code or codes, as

regards the cases set out in Articles 4(1), 4b, 4c(1) and 4d

of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European

Parliament and of the Council;

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date of birth;

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sex;

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breed or colour of coat;

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identification code of the mother or, in the

case of an animal imported from a third country, the unique

identification code of the individual means of

identification allocated to the animal by the Member State

of destination in accordance with Regulation (EC) No

1760/2000;

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identification number of the holding where

born;

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identification numbers of all holdings where

the animal has been kept and the dates of each change of

holding;

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date of death or slaughter;

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the type of electronic identifier, if applied to

the animal.".

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