Article 58 Obligations on operators keeping equine animals as regards the means and methods of identification of those animals, their application and use
United Kingdom
Operators of kept equine animals shall ensure that each animal is individually identified by the following means of identification:
an injectable transponder as listed in point (e) of Annex III;
a single lifetime identification document.
Operators of kept equine animals shall ensure that:
equine animals are identified within the time periods provided for in Article 12(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2015/262;
no means of identification referred to in paragraph 1 are removed, modified or replaced without the permission of the competent authority of the establishment where those animals are habitually kept.
Operators of kept equine animals, and if such operators are not the owner of the animals, acting on behalf of and in agreement with the owner of the animal, shall submit an application for the issuing of a single lifetime identification document, referred to in Article 65 or 66, to the competent authority of the establishment where the animals are habitually kept, and shall provide the competent authority with the necessary information to complete that identification document and the records in the database referred to in Article 64.