Division 2 By way of derogation from point 1 of this Chapter and point 1(a)(i) of Chapter I, an appropriate authority or, if it so decides, its competent authority referred to in Article 4(3), may authorise a breed society which carries out a breeding programme on purebred breeding animals of an endangered breed of the bovine, porcine, ovine or caprine species or of a ‘hardy’ sheep breed to enter in the main section of its breeding book, an animal descending from parents and grandparents entered or recorded in the main or supplementary sections of a breeding book of that breed.F1

An appropriate authority, or, if it so decides, its competent authority authorising a breed society to make use of that derogation, shall ensure that:

1. (a)

   that breed society has justified the need for making use of that derogation, in particular by demonstrating the lack of male purebred breeding animals of that breed available for breeding purposes;

2. (b)

   that breed society has established one or more supplementary sections in its breeding book;

3. (c)

   the rules under which the breed society enters or records animals in the main or supplementary sections of that breeding book are laid down in the breeding programme approved in accordance with Article 8(3), and, where applicable, Article 12.

F2A competent authority making use of this derogation shall make publicly available the breeds which are granted such a derogation in the list referred to in Article 7.