Article 23 Record-keeping obligations of operators of establishments keeping bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine animals
United Kingdom
Operators of registered establishments keeping bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine animals shall record the following information concerning those animals:
the date of birth of each animal kept on the establishment;
the date of natural death, slaughter or loss of each animal on the establishment;
the type of electronic identifier or tattoo and its location, if applied to the animal;
the initial identification code of each identified animal, where such code has been changed and the reason for that change.
Operators of establishments keeping ovine and caprine animals, shall record the information referred to in paragraph 1(a) in a format of the year of the birth of each such animal kept on the establishment.
Operators of establishments keeping porcine animals shall be exempted from recording the information referred to in paragraph 1(a).
Where ovine, caprine or porcine animals kept on the establishment are only identified by the unique identification number of their establishment of birth, the operators of establishments shall record the information referred to in paragraph 1 for each group of animals having the same unique identification number of their establishment of birth and the total number of animals in that group.
Where porcine animals kept on the establishment are not identified in accordance with Article 53, the operators of establishments shall:
not be required to record the information referred to in paragraph 1;
record for each group of animals moved from their establishment, the information referred to in Article 102(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 and the total number of animals in that group.