Division B In addition to the requirements referred to in point A:
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breeders' associations, breeding organisations and public bodies shall:
- (a)
have a sufficient number of breeders participating in each of their breeding programmes;
- (b)
have adopted rules of procedure:
- (i)
regulating the settlement of disputes with breeders participating in their breeding programmes;
- (ii)
ensuring equal treatment of breeders participating in their breeding programmes;
- (iii)
setting out the rights and obligations of breeders participating in their breeding programmes and of the breed society or breeding operation;
- (iv)
setting out the rights and obligations of member breeders where membership of breeders is provided for;
- (i)
- (a)
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nothing in the rules of procedure referred to in point 1(b) shall prevent the breeders participating in the breeding programmes from:
- (a)
exercising free choice in the selection and breeding of their breeding animals;
- (b)
having the offspring descended from those breeding animals entered in the breeding books or registered in the breeding registers in accordance with the rules provided for in Chapter IV of this Regulation;
- (c)
having the ownership of their breeding animals.
- (a)