Division 4 32000 R 1760: 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 (OJ L 204, 11.8.2000, p. 1), as amended by:

In Article 4(1), the following sentence is added after the second sentence in the first subparagraph:

‘All animals on a holding in Bulgaria or Romania born by the date of accession or intended for intra-Community trade after that date shall be identified by an ear tag approved by the competent authority, applied to each ear.’

In Article 4(2), the following subparagraph is added after the fourth sub-paragraph:

‘No animal born in Bulgaria or Romania after the date of accession may be moved from a holding unless it is identified in accordance with the provisions of this Article.’

The following subparagraph is added after the second subparagraph in Article 6(1):

‘The competent authority in Bulgaria and Romania shall, as of the date of accession, for each animal which has to be identified in accordance with Article 4, issue a passport within 14 days of the notification of its birth, or, in the case of animals imported from third countries, within 14 days of the notification of its re-identification by the Member State concerned in accordance with Article 4(3).’

In Article 20, the following sentence is added:

‘Bulgaria and Romania shall do so no later than three months after the date of accession.’