Division A Breeders' associations, breeding organisations, private undertakings operating in closed production systems and public bodies shall:

have legal personality in accordance with the legislation in force in the F1constituent territory of the United Kingdom where the application for recognition is made;

have sufficient and qualified staff and adequate facilities and equipment to implement efficiently the breeding programmes in respect of which it intends to apply for approval in accordance with Article 8(3) F2... ;

be capable of carrying out the checks necessary for recording pedigrees of the breeding animals to be covered by those breeding programmes;

have, in respect of each breeding programme, a sufficiently large population of breeding animals F3...;

be capable of generating, or have had generated for them, and be capable of using data collected on breeding animals necessary for carrying out those breeding programmes.