CHAPTER IV

Entry of breeding animals in breeding books and breeding registers and acceptance for breeding
Section 2

Registration of hybrid breeding pigs in breeding registers and acceptance for breeding

Registration of hybrid breeding pigs in breeding registers
Article 23
1
Breeding operations shall, at the request of their breeders, register in their breeding register any hybrid breeding pig of the same breed, line or cross that fulfils the requirements set out in Part 2 of Annex II.
2
Breeding operations shall not refuse to register in their breeding registers any hybrid breeding pigs that have been registered in accordance with Part 2 of Annex II in a breeding register established for the same breed, line or cross by a breeding operation recognised in accordance with Article 4(3) in the United Kingdom or by a breeding body in a third country included in the list provided for in Article 34.

Acceptance of hybrid breeding pigs and their germinal products for breeding
Article 24
1
A breeding operation carrying out a breeding programme, approved in accordance with Article 8(3), and, where applicable, Article 12, on hybrid breeding pigs of a breed, line or cross shall accept:
a
for natural service, any hybrid breeding pig of the same breed, line or cross as defined in that breeding programme;
b
for artificial insemination, semen collected from hybrid breeding pigs which have undergone, where required by the breeding programme, approved in accordance with Article 8(3), and, where applicable, Article 12, performance testing or genetic evaluation in accordance with Article 25;
c
for embryo transfer, oocytes collected and used for in vitro production of embryos and in vivo derived embryos conceived by use of semen referred to in point (b), provided that those oocytes and embryos have been collected from hybrid breeding pigs which have undergone, where required by the breeding programme, approved in accordance with Article 8(3), and, where applicable, Article 12, performance testing or genetic evaluation in accordance with Article 25;
d
for the testing of male hybrid breeding pigs, semen collected from those hybrid breeding pigs which have not undergone performance testing or genetic evaluation, provided that that semen is solely used for the purpose of testing of those hybrid breeding pigs within the quantity limits necessary for that breeding operation to carry out such tests in accordance with Article 25.
2
Male hybrid breeding pigs which are registered in a breeding register established by a breeding operation carrying out a breeding programme, approved in accordance with Article 8(3), and, where applicable, Article 12, and the germinal products thereof, shall be accepted by another breeding operation carrying out a breeding programme on the same breed, line or cross in the United Kingdom under the same conditions and quantity limits for performance testing, and, where applicable, genetic evaluation, as applied to its own hybrid breeding pigs.
3
For the purpose of paragraphs 1 and 2, the germinal products of hybrid breeding pigs referred to in those paragraphs shall be collected, produced, processed and stored at a semen collection or storage centre, or by an embryo collection or production team, approved by the competent authority in accordance with animal health law in force in the constituent territory of the United Kingdom.
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Words in Art. 23(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 6(3) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 28(4)(c)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 24(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 6(4)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 28(4)(d)(i)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 24(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 6(4)(b) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 28(4)(d)(ii)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Art. 24(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 6(4)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)