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Article 66 Obligations on operators of kept equine animals as regards the single lifetime identification documents

United Kingdom

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1.

Operators of kept equine animals shall ensure that those animals are at all times accompanied by their single lifetime identification document.

2.

By way of derogation from paragraph 1, operators shall not be required to ensure that kept equine animals are accompanied by their single lifetime identification document when those animals are:

(a)

stabled or on pasture, and the single lifetime identification document can be presented without delay by the operator of the kept equine animal or the operator of the establishment on which the animal is kept;

(b)

temporarily ridden, driven, led or taken either:

  1. (i)

    in the vicinity of the establishment on which the animal is kept within a Member State;

or

  1. (ii)

    during transhumance of animals to and from registered summer grazing grounds provided that the single lifetime identification documents can be presented at the establishment of departure;

(c)

unweaned equine animals and accompanying their dam or foster mare;

(d)

participating in a training or test of an equestrian competition, race or event which requires them to leave temporarily the establishement on which the training, competition, race or event takes place;

(e)

moved or transported in an emergency situation relating to the animals themselves or to the establishment where they are kept.

3.

Operators of kept equine animals shall not move an equine animal accompanied by the temporary document referred to in Article 61(2) to the slaughterhouse.

4.

Operators of kept equine animals shall return the single lifetime identification document to the issuing competent authority, or the issuing body to which the task was delegated, as decoded from the unique code after the death or loss of the equine animal.