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Article 11 Permitted additional ear tags

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(1)

Subject to paragraph (2) below, save in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph, it shall not be lawful to attach to any bovine animal an additional ear tag which could be confused with an ear tag attached—

(a)

under any other provision of this Order;

(b)

in compliance with the Directive in accordance with provisions of the law of another member State or an EEA State; or

(c)

in compliance with the 1990 Order.

(2)

Nothing in paragraph (1) above shall preclude the attaching to an ear of an animal of an additional tag comprising information similar in all respects—

(a)

to that comprised in an ear tag attached under article 8(1) save for the country code ‘UK’; or

(b)

to that comprised in an ear tag which has been attached in compliance with the Directive in accordance with provisions of the law of another member State or an EEA State.