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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2035/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2019/2035",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2035 of 28 June 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules for establishments keeping terrestrial animals and hatcheries, and the traceability of certain kept terrestrial animals and hatching eggs (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2035",
  "path": "article/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Subject matter and scope",
  "text": "1. This Regulation supplements the rules laid down in Regulation (EU) 2016/429 as regards:\n(a) registered and approved establishments for kept terrestrial animals and hatching eggs;\n(b) traceability requirements for the following kept terrestrial animals:\n(i) bovine, ovine, caprine, porcine, equine, camelid and cervid animals (ungulates);\n(ii) dogs, cats and ferrets;\n(iii) captive birds;\n(iv) hatching eggs;\n(v) terrestrial animals kept in travelling circuses and animal acts.\n2. Chapter 1 of Title I of Part II lays down the requirements for the registration of transporters of kept dogs, cats and ferrets, and poultry engaged in the transportation of those animals between Member States or between a Member State and a third country.\n3. Chapter 2 of Title I of Part II provides for derogations for operators of establishments for assembly operations of certain equine animals and of hatcheries of captive birds, from the requirement to apply to the competent authority for approval.\nThat Chapter also lays down the requirements for the approval of the following types of establishments:\n(a) establishments for assembly operations of ungulates and poultry from which those animals are to be moved to another Member State or which receive those animals from another Member State;\n(b) hatcheries from which hatching eggs or day-old chicks are to be moved to another Member State;\n(c) establishments keeping poultry from which poultry intended for purposes other than slaughter or hatching eggs are to be moved to another Member State.\nThose requirements concern isolation and other biosecurity measures, surveillance measures, facilities and equipment, personnel and supervision by the competent authority.\n4. Chapter 3 of Title I of Part II lays down the requirements for the approval of the following types of establishments:\n(a) assembly centres of dogs, cats and ferrets from which those animals are to be moved to another Member State;\n(b) animal shelters for dogs, cats and ferrets from which those animals are to be moved to another Member State;\n(c) control posts;\n(d) environmentally isolated production establishments for bumble bees from which those animals are to be moved to another Member State;\n(e) quarantine establishments for kept terrestrial animals other than primates from which those animals are to be moved within the same Member State or to another Member State.\nThose requirements concern quarantine, isolation and other biosecurity measures, surveillance and control measures, facilities and equipment, and supervision by the veterinarian.\n5. Chapter 4 of Title I of Part II lays down the requirements for the approval of confined establishments from which kept terrestrial animals are to be moved within the same Member State or to another Member State in relation to quarantine, isolation and other biosecurity measures, surveillance and control measures, facilities and equipment and supervision by the veterinarian.\n6. Chapter 1 of Title II of Part II lays down the information obligations of the competent authority as regards its registers of:\n(a) establishments of kept terrestrial animals;\n(b) hatcheries;\n(c) transporters of kept ungulates, dogs, cats and ferrets, and poultry engaged in the transportation of those animals between Member States or between a Member State and a third country;\n(d) operators conducting assembly operations for kept ungulates and poultry independently of an establishment.\n7. Chapter 2 of Title II of Part II lays down the information obligation of the competent authority as regards registers of approved establishments referred to in Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of Title I of Part II.\n8. Chapter 1 of Title III of Part II lays down the record-keeping obligations of operators, in addition to those provided for in Article 102(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429, for the following types of registered or approved establishments:\n(a) all establishments keeping terrestrial animals;\n(b) establishments keeping:\n(i) bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine animals;\n(ii) equine animals;\n(iii) poultry and captive birds;\n(iv) dogs, cats and ferrets;\n(v) honeybees;\n(c) travelling circuses and animal acts;\n(d) animal shelters for dogs, cats and ferrets;\n(e) control posts;\n(f) quarantine establishments for kept terrestrial animals other than primates;\n(g) confined establishments.\n9. Chapter 2 of Title III of Part II lays down the record-keeping obligations of operators of registered or approved hatcheries, in addition to those provided for in Article 103(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429.\n10. Chapter 3 of Title III of Part II lays down the record-keeping obligations of registered transporters, in addition to those provided for in Article 104(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429.\n11. Chapter 4 of Title III of Part II lays down the record-keeping obligations of operators conducting assembly operations, in addition to those provided for in Article 105(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429, for\n(a) operators of registered or approved establishments for assembly operations of kept ungulates and poultry;\n(b) operators conducting assembly operations of kept ungulates and poultry independently from an establishment;\n(c) operators of assembly centres of dogs, cats and ferrets registered with the competent authority.\n12. Titles I to IV of Part III lay down traceability requirements for kept animals of the bovine, ovine and caprine, porcine and equine species, including the means of identification, documentation and computer databases.\n13. Chapter 1 of Title V of Part III lays down traceability requirements for kept dogs, cats and ferrets, including those for pet animals when they are moved to another Member State for other than non-commercial purposes.\n14. Chapter 2 of Title V of Part III lays down traceability requirements for kept camelid and cervid animals.\n15. Chapter 3 of Title V of Part III lays down traceability requirements for kept captive birds.\n16. Chapter 4 of Title V of Part III lays down traceability requirements for kept terrestrial animals in travelling circuses and animal acts.\n17. Title VI of Part III lays down traceability requirements for hatching eggs.\n18. Title VII of Part III lays down traceability requirements for kept bovine, ovine, caprine, porcine, equine, cervid and camelid animals after their entry into the Union.\n19. Part IV lays down certain transitional measures with regard to Directives 64/432/EEC and 92/65/EEC, Regulations (EC) No 1760/2000, (EC) No 21/2004 and (EC) No 1739/2005, Directives 2008/71/EC, 2009/156/EC and 2009/158/EC, and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/262 in relation to:\n(a) the registration and approval of establishments;\n(b) the identification of kept terrestrial animals;\n(c) the movement and identification documents for kept terrestrial animals in travelling circuses and animal acts;\n(d) the single lifetime identification document for kept equine animals.",
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