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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/annex-IXa/1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/annex-IXa/1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/1307",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 637/2008 and Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307",
  "path": "annex/IXa/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Animal health and welfare plan",
  "text": "(1) An animal health and welfare plan (in this paragraph, a “plan”) must have been prepared not more than one year before the start of the claim year to which it relates.\n(2) A plan must include information about animals kept on the holding, including in particular the number and sex of each species of animal.\n(3) A plan must include the name and address of, and contact information for, each person who manages animals on the holding.\n(4) A plan must include—\n(a) the name and address of, and contact information for, any attending veterinary surgeon; and\n(b) information about the veterinary services expected to be provided in respect of animals on the holding.\n(5) A plan must include information about animals kept on the holding for breeding, including in particular—\n(i) the number and species of such animals; and\n(ii) the number and species of animals expected to be born on the holding during the claim year.\n(6) A plan must include information about animal management activities expected to be carried out during the claim year, including in particular—\n(a) the type of activity (for example, scanning a pregnant animal); and\n(b) the period during which the activity is expected to be carried out.\n(7) A plan must include information about the method by which an animal would where necessary or appropriate be euthanised, including in particular—\n(a) the killing method;\n(b) the name of, and contact information for, the person who will kill the animal;\n(c) the qualification or training which enables that person to euthanise the animal.\n(8) A plan must include information about how fallen stock is managed.\n(9) A plan must include information about how animal disease is managed, and in particular must specify for each disease that may in the opinion of the person who manages an animal (acting reasonably) occur on the holding—\n(a) the likelihood of the disease occurring;\n(b) the risks to animal health of the disease;\n(c) the measures that are considered necessary or appropriate—\n(i) to prevent the onset or spread of a disease; and\n(ii) to prevent or mitigate harm from a disease.\n(10) In this paragraph—\n(a) a reference to an animal means an alpaca, an animal of a bovine species, a goat, a llama, a pig, or a sheep;\n(b) a reference to a disease includes a parasite; and\n(c) a reference to a person who manages an animal includes, but is not limited to, the keeper.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulation revoked (E.) (1.1.2024) by The Agriculture (Delinked Payments and Consequential Provisions) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1430), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 3 para. 1 Table 1 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Annex 9a inserted (S.) (5.3.2025) by The Rural Support (Improvement) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/59), regs. 1, 3(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1307/annex/IXa/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:07.272502+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."
}