The Cattle Identification (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Cattle Identification (Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/842) (W.74).

Regulations 3 and 4 update references to EU legislation. Regulation 5 clarifies the role of the competent authority in relation to unidentified animals.

Regulation 6 makes provision to add a new automated telephony system to the list of methods by which keepers may register animals with the Welsh Ministers.

Regulation 7 makes provision to remove the need for the occupiers of slaughterhouses to enter certain details into the passports of animals they have slaughtered.

Regulation 8 makes provision to allow keepers to report animal movements by using the new automated telephony system as a method of notification and also to report animal deaths using electronic methods as well as paper, except in the case of animals slaughtered outside a slaughterhouse that are sent to a slaughterhouse for dressing. An animal’s passport must be returned to the Welsh Ministers within seven days of the death unless it has been retained by an inspector.

The Welsh Ministers' Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.