CHAPTER VII U.K. Zootechnical certificates

Article 32U.K.Derogations from requirements concerning the format of zootechnical certificates issued for purebred breeding animals of the equine species

1.By way of derogation from Article 30(6), in the case of purebred breeding animals of the equine species, the information set out in Chapter I of Part 2 of Annex V shall be contained in a single lifetime identification document for equidae. The [F1appropriate authority may make regulations] concerning the content and format of such identification documents.

2.The [F2appropriate authority may make regulations], laying down model forms of the single lifetime identification document for equidae. F3...

3.By way of derogation from paragraph 1, where updated results of performance testing or genetic evaluation are publicly available on a website, the competent authorities may authorise the non-inclusion of the information set out in point (1)(m) of Chapter I of Part 2 of Annex V in the document referred to in paragraph 1, provided that the breed society refers to that website in that document.

4.By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the competent authorities may authorise that the information set out in points (1)(m) and (n) of Chapter I of Part 2 of Annex V is contained in other documents issued by the breed society for the purebred breeding animals entered in a breeding book maintained by that breed society.