Databases
14.—(1) An issuing body must provide the information listed in Article 38(1)(a) to (j) and (l) to (o) in respect of each equine animal for which it issues an identification document, so far as held by the issuing body, to the Scottish Ministers, within a period of 15 days beginning with the day on which that information was recorded in the database maintained for the purposes of that Article.
(2) The Scottish Ministers must maintain a record of the information provided to them in accordance with paragraph (1).
(3) Where an issuing body’s authorisation to issue identification documents has, in accordance with Article 5(4), been withdrawn, the Scottish Ministers must ensure that equine animals continue to be identified in accordance with the Commission Regulation.
(4) For the purposes of Article 39, the Scottish Ministers must provide the information provided to them in accordance with paragraph (1) to the Secretary of State.
(5) On the slaughter or death of an equine animal, the Scottish Ministers must provide the information held by them about that equine animal to the official veterinarian, referred to in Article 34(2)(a), carrying out or supervising the measures set out Article 34(1).
(6) Where they consider it appropriate to do so, the Scottish Ministers may provide information provided to them in accordance with paragraph (1), so far as held by them, to any other person who requests that information.