Article 73 Obligations on operators keeping camelid and cervid animals as regards the means and methods of identification of those animals, their application and use
United Kingdom
Operators keeping camelid animals shall ensure that those animals are individually identified by either:
- (a)
a conventional ear tag as listed in point (a) of Annex III attached to each ear flap of the animals with visible, legible and indelible display of the identification code of the animal;
or
- (b)
an injectable transponder as listed in point (e) of Annex III with legible and indelible display of the identification code of the animal.
Operators keeping cervid animals shall ensure that those animals are individually identified by one of the following means of identification:
- (a)
a conventional ear tag as listed in point (a) of Annex III attached to each ear flap of the animals with visible, legible and indelible display of the identification code of the animal;
or
- (b)
an injectable transponder as listed in point (e) of Annex III with legible and indelible display of the identification code of the animal;
or
- (c)
a tattoo as listed in point (g) of Annex III applied to an animal with indelible display of the identification code of the animal.
Operators of establishments keeping camelid and cervid animals shall ensure that:
the means of identification are applied to those animals on the establishment of birth;
no means of identification are removed, modified or replaced without the permission of the competent authority;
they provide to the competent authority and where necessary to other operators the reading device which enables at any time the verification of the individual identification of the animal where the implanted injectable transponder has not been approved by the competent authority.