Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 45/2012 of 19 January 2012 amending the Annex to Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 as regards the content of the movement documents Text with EEA relevance

Published date20 January 2012
Subject MatterInformation and verification,Sheepmeat and goatmeat
Official Gazette PublicationOfficial Journal of the European Union, L 17, 20 January 2012
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20.1.2012 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 17/1

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 45/2012

of 19 January 2012

amending the Annex to Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 as regards the content of the movement documents

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 of 17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC (1), and in particular Article 10(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 provides that each Member State is to establish a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals in accordance with the provisions of that Regulation.
(2) That system is to comprise four elements, namely: means of identification to identify each animal (‘means of identification’), up-to-date registers kept on each holding, movement documents and a central register or a computer database. The Annex to that Regulation sets out the requirements for those elements.
(3) Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 provides that, as from 31 December 2009, electronic identification is to be obligatory for all animals born after that date. However, the majority of animals born until that date are still only identified with non-electronic identifiers.
(4) The individual animal code contained in the non-electronic identifiers can only be recorded manually. Manual recording of non-electronic identifiers requires considerable effort on the part of keepers and represents a potential source of errors.
(5) The particular situation for animals born until 31 December 2009 was taken into account as regards the requirement to record individual animal codes in the movement document. The risks associated with movements of such animals to a slaughterhouse are limited and do not justify the supplementary administrative burden posed by that requirement. Animals moved directly to a slaughterhouse in the same Member State were therefore exempted from that requirement regardless of the date of movement of the animals.
(6) In order to further reduce the administrative burden for operators, the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 21/2004, as amended by
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