{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2000-1760/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2000-1760/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2000/1760",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 July 2000 establishing a system for the identification and registration of bovine animals and regarding the labelling of beef and beef products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 820/97",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2000-1760",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. With the exception of transporters, each keeper of animals shall:\nkeep an up-to-date register,\nreport to the competent authority all movements to and from the holding and all births and deaths of animals of the holding, together with the dates of those events, within a maximum period fixed by the appropriate Minister concerned; that maximum period shall be at least three days and not exceed seven days following the occurrence of one of those events; ....\n...\n2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n3. Each keeper shall supply the competent authority, upon request, with all information concerning the origin, identification and, where appropriate, destination of animals, which he has owned, kept, transported, marketed or slaughtered.\n4. The register shall be in a format approved by the competent authority, kept in manual or computerised form, and be available at all times to the competent authority, upon request, for a minimum period to be determined by the competent authority but which may not be less than three years.\n5. By way of derogation from paragraph 4, keeping a register shall be optional for any keeper who:\n(a) has access to the computerised database provided for in Article 5 which already contains the information to be included in the register; and\n(b) enters the up-to-date information, or has it entered, directly into the computerised database provided for in Article 5.\n6. To ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information to be included in the holding register provided for in this Article, the appropriate Minister may make regulations to lay down the necessary rules concerning that information ....",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU) No 653/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 as regards electronic identification of bovine animals and labelling of beef."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Livestock (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/814), regs. 1, 4(11)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Livestock (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/814), regs. 1, 4(11)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 3(7)(a) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 7(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 3(7)(b) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Inserted by Regulation (EU) No 653/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 as regards electronic identification of bovine animals and labelling of beef."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(6) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 3(7)(c)(i) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(6) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 3(7)(c)(ii) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2000/1760/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:57:17.412867+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}