{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2035/article-62",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2035/article-62.json",
  "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/62",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Authorisation of alternative methods of identification of kept equine animals",
  "text": "1. Member States may authorise suitable alternative methods of identification of kept equine animals, including the recording of marks, which ensure an unequivocal link between the equine animal and the single lifetime identification document and show that the equine animal has undergone the process of identification.\n2. Member States authorising alternative methods of identification as provided for in paragraph 1shall ensure that:\n(a) the alternative methods of identification are only used in exceptional cases for the identification of equine animals entered in specific breeding books or are used for specific purposes, or in case of equine animals which cannot be identified by an injectable transponder for medical or animal welfare reasons;\n(b) any authorised alternative method of identification or any combination of those methods provide at least the same guarantees as the injectable transponder;\n(c) the format of the information on the alternative method of identification applied to an equine animal must be suitable for entry in a searchable database.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/2035/article/62",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:59.211429+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}