PURE-BRED BREEDING PIGS (ENTRY INTO HERD-BOOKS CRITERIA) REGULATIONS *

PURE-BRED BREEDING PIGS

(ENTRY INTO HERD-BOOKS CRITERIA)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 437.28

PURE-BRED BREEDING PIGS (ENTRY INTO

HERD-BOOKS CRITERIA) REGULATIONS *

31st October, 2003

LEGAL NOTICE 322 of 2003.

(1) The title of these regulations is the Pure-Bred Breeding

Pigs (Entry into Herd-Books Criteria) Regulations.

(2) The scope of these regulations is to implement the

provisions found under European Union Commission Decision 89/

502/EEC, laying down the criteria governing entry in herd-books

for pure-bred breeding pigs, which is in turn finds its legal basis

under article 6(c) of European Union Council Directive 88/661/

EEC.

(1) To qualify for entry in the main section of the book of

its breed a pure-bred breeding pig must -

(a) be descended from parents and grandparents entered in

a herd-book of that same breed;

(b) be identified after birth according to the rules of that

book;

(c) have a pedigree established in accordance with the

rules of that book.

The main section of the herd-book may be divided into

several sections according to the animals’ characteristics. Only

pure-bred breeding pigs meeting the criteria laid down in regulation

2 may be entered in one of those sections.

(1) A breeder’s association or breeding organisation

keeping a herd-book may decide that a female, which does not meet

th e c ri te ri a lai d do wn i n reg ul ati on 2 , m ay b e ent ered i n a

supplementary section of that herd-book. The female must meet the

following requirements

(a) be identified in accordance with the herd-book rules,

(b) be judged to conform to the breed standard,

(c) have minimum characteristics as laid down by the

herd-book rules.

(2) The requirements mentioned in the regulation 2(1)(b) and

(c) may be differentiated according to whether the female belongs

to the breed although it has no known origin or was obtained from a

crossing programme approved by the breeders’ association or

breeding organisation.

A female whose mother and maternal grandmother are

*These Regulations have been repealed by Legal Notice 11 of 2024.

PURE-BRED BREEDING PIGS

(ENTRY INTO HERD-BOOKS CRITERIA)

entered in a supplementary section of the herd-book as provided for

in regulation 4(1) and whose father and two grandfathers are

entered in the main section of the book in accordance with the

criteria laid down in regulation 2 shall be regarded as a pure-bred

female and entered in the main section of the book, as provided for

in regulation 2.

Where a book contains several sections a pure-bred

breeding pig from a Member State and having specific

characteristics distinguishing it from the population of the same

breed in the territory of Malta shall be entered in the section of the

book whose characteristics it meets.