{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-262/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-262/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2015/262",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/262 of 17 February 2015 laying down rules pursuant to Council Directives 90/427/EEC and 2009/156/EC as regards the methods for the identification of equidae (Equine Passport Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-262",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Derogation from the completion of certain information in Sections I and IV of the identification document",
  "text": "1. By way of derogation from Article 4(1)(a)(ii) and Article 9(1)(b), the competent authority may authorise issuing bodies not to complete by drawing the information referred to in points 12 to 18 of the outline diagram of the identification document, set out in Part B of Section I of Annex I, provided that the following two conditions are fulfilled:\n(a) a transponder is implanted in accordance with Article 18...;\n(b) a photograph or print displays sufficient details to depict the equine animal.\n2. The issuing bodies referred to in Article 5(1)(a) and (b) may:\n(a) not avail of the derogation granted in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article;\n(b) adapt identification documents issued in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article to the requirements set out in Article 9(1).\n3. By way of derogation from Article 9(1)(c), the information on the owner may be provided in the format of an ownership certificate or registration card recorded in the database established in accordance with Article 38 which refers to:\n(a) the unique life number of the equine animal;\n(b) the number of the identification document, where applied, and the transponder code ....\nThe ownership certificate or registration card provided for in the first subparagraph shall be returned to the issuing body if the animal died or was sold, lost, stolen, slaughtered or killed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 13(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10(3)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 13(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/262/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:46:51.000801+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."
}