Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/262Show full title

Article 37 U.K. Equidae intended for slaughter for human consumption and medication record

1. An equine animal shall be deemed to be intended for slaughter for human consumption except where it is, in accordance with this Regulation, irreversibly declared as not so intended in Part II of Section II of the identification document by:

(a) the signature of the owner on its own discretion, endorsed by the issuing body; or

(b) the signatures of the keeper and of the veterinarian responsible who acts in accordance with [F1 regulation 8(b) of, and Schedule 4 to, the 2013 Regulations]; or

(c) the entry made by the issuing body, when issuing a duplicate identification document in accordance with Article 29 or 30 or a replacement identification document in accordance with Article 32.

2. Prior to any treatment [F2 with a medicinal product administered in accordance with a provision specified in paragraph 3A, the veterinarian responsible for treating the equine animal] or to any treatment by use of a medicinal product authorised in accordance with Article 6(3) of that Directive, the veterinarian responsible as referred to in Article 10(1) of Directive 2001/82/EC shall ascertain the equine animal's status as either:

(a) intended for slaughter for human consumption, which shall be the default case; or

(b) not intended for slaughter for human consumption as set out in Part II of Section II of the identification document.

3. Where the treatment referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article is not permitted for an equine animal intended for slaughter for human consumption, the veterinarian responsible [F3 for treating the equine animal in accordance with regulation 8(b) of, and Schedule 4 to, the 2013 Regulations shall ensure that] the equine animal concerned is prior to the treatment irreversibly declared as not intended for slaughter for human consumption by:

(a) completing and signing Part II of Section II of the identification document; and

(b) invalidating Part III of Section II of the identification document in accordance with the instructions provided for in Part III of Section II.

[F4 3A. The provisions specified in this paragraph are—

(a) regulation 8(b) of, and Schedule 4 to, the 2013 Regulations;

(b) Commission Regulation (EU) 1950/2006.]

4. After the measures provided for in paragraph 3 have been taken, the keeper of the equine animal shall lodge the identification document with an issuing body in the [F5 constituent territory of Great Britain] where the holding of the equine animal is located, or provide the information online where such access to the database is established, within a maximum period of 14 days from the date of signature in Part II of Section II of the identification document.

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6. Where an equine animal is to be treated under the conditions referred to in [F7 Schedule 4 to the 2013 Regulations], the veterinarian responsible shall enter in Part III of Section II of the identification document the requisite details of the medicinal product containing substances essential or bringing added clinical benefit for the treatment of equidae listed in Regulation (EC) No 1950/2006.

The veterinarian responsible shall enter the date of last administration, as prescribed, of that medicinal product and shall, acting in accordance with Article 11(4) of Directive 2001/82/EC, inform the keeper of the date when the withdrawal period established in accordance with Article 10(3) of that Directive will lapse.

[F8 7. In this Article, ‘the 2013 Regulations’ means the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 37(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 39(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Words in Art. 37(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 39(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in Art. 37(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 39(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4 Art. 37(3A) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 39(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F5 Words in Art. 37(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 39(e) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 27(30)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F6 Art. 37(5) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 39(f); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F7 Words in Art. 37(6) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 39(g); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F8 Art. 37(7) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 39(h); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)