Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004Show full title

Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 of 17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC

Article 15U.K.

Directive 92/102/EEC shall be amended as follows:

1.

Article 2(a) shall be replaced by the following:

‘(a)

animal shall mean any animal of the species referred to in Directive 64/432/EEC(1) other than bovine animals.

2.

Article 3(2) shall be replaced by the following:

Member States may be authorised under the procedure laid down in Article 18 of Directive 90/425/EEC to exclude from the list in paragraph 1(a) natural persons who keep one single pig which is intended for their own use or consumption, or to take account of particular circumstances, provided that this animal is subjected to the controls laid down in this Directive before any movement.;

3.

Article 4 shall be amended as follows:

(a)

paragraph 1(a) shall be amended as follows:

  • in the first subparagraph, the words ‘bovine or’ shall be deleted,

  • in the second subparagraph, the words ‘of all births, deaths and movements’ shall be replaced by ‘of movements’,

  • the fourth subparagraph shall be deleted;

(b)

paragraph 1(b) shall be deleted;

(c)

the first subparagraph of paragraph 3(b) shall be replaced by the following:

any keeper of animals to be moved to or from a market or collection centre provides a document, containing details of the animals in question, to the operator, on the market or in the collection centre, who is a keeper of the animals on a temporary basis.;

4.

Article 5 shall be amended as follows:

(a)

paragraph 2 shall be deleted;

(b)

paragraph 3 shall be amended as follows:

  • in the first subparagraph, the words ‘other than bovine animals’ shall be deleted,

  • the second subparagraph shall be replaced by the following text:

    Member States may, pending the decision provided for in Article 10 of this Directive and by derogation from the second subparagraph of Article 3(1)(c) of Directive 90/425/EEC, apply their national systems for all movements of animals in their territories. Such systems must enable the holding from which they came and the holding on which they were born to be identified. Member States shall notify the Commission of the systems which they intend to introduce for this purpose, as from 1 July 1993 for pigs. In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 18 of Directive 90/425/EEC, a Member State may be asked to make amendments to its system where it does not fulfil the aforementioned requirement.,

  • the fourth subparagraph shall be deleted;

(c)

paragraph 4 shall be deleted;

5.

the first and third indents of Article 11(1) shall be deleted.