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Contingency planning for power and equipment failures

11.  At the end of article 28 add—

(6) When animals arrive at a market, collection centre or abattoir which—

(a)is a central point of recording, and

(b)is applying the exemptions in paragraph (1) with the consent of the local authority,

if the identity of those animals is not recorded on a movement document accompanying them in accordance article 22(4) the market must provide the keeper of the holding from which the animals have arrived written with confirmation that the failure to provide the identities of the individual animals to that keeper has been approved by the local authority..