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Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries,
Having regard to Council Directive 90/426/EEC of 26 June 1990 amended on veterinary and zootechnical controls applicable in intra-community exchanges of certain living animals and products from the perspective of the realization of the domestic market;
Having regard to Council Directive 90/427/EEC of 26 June 1990 on zootechnical and genealogical conditions governing intra-community equine exchanges;
In light of Commission decision 93/623/EEC of 20 October 1993 establishing the identification document (passport) accompanying the recorded equines, as amended by Commission decision 2000/68/EC of 22 December 1999;
Considering the rural code, including articles L. 212-9, L. 653-2, L. 653-12, R. 653-13 to R. 653-28, R. 653-82, D. 212-46 to D. 212-54 and D. 653-61;
Having regard to the amended decision of 15 February 1994 on the identification and screening of bloodshed equinees;
Having regard to the decision of 30 April 2002 on the empowerment of identifiers in kine and asine species;
In view of the decision of 21 May 2004 on the complementary identification of equinees by the installation of an electronic transponder;
Considering the opinion of the National Commission for Genetic Improvement;
On the proposal of the Chief Food Officer and the Chief Forestry and Rural Affairs Officer,
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Any equine born in France must be identified before withdrawal and no later than December 31 of its year of birth.
Any equine born abroad, introduced or imported into the national territory, must be identified in accordance with the terms defined in Titles I and II of this Order.
The identification of equinees includes:
- the identification of the characteristics of the animal including the year of birth, the reporting referred to in Article 7 of this Order and, possibly, the hemotype and DNA typing;
― the installation of an electronic transponder, made solely on an equidisequid whose characteristics were recorded in accordance with theArticle 16 of the Order of May 21, 2004 related to the complementary identification of equinees by the installation of an electronic transponder;
- where applicable, the identification of acquired trademarks such as tattoo, marking;
― the attribution of a registered number and a name;
- the establishment of an identification document on which is the race or name received by the animal and a registration card conforming to one of the models provided by the regulations in force;
― the recording and updating of these data in the central zootechnical file managed by the public establishment Les Haras national.
To carry out the identification and certification operations of the origins mentioned in this Order, the means of connection and transfer of data, made available by the public establishment The National Haras, may be used.
Identification operations shall be carried out by a person authorized to identify equities as defined by the regulations in force and referred to in this Order: "qualified person".
The owner or his or her representative is required to facilitate access to the animal by ensuring, inter alia, its contention.
The breed or the name of the animal is determined in accordance with the regulations relating to the races and appellations of the equine.
For equines whose filiation is registered, the day, month and year of birth are specified.
For equines whose filiation is not established, a year of birth is presumed. It can be estimated based on the state of the tooth.
The reporting statement shall be descriptive and possibly graphical, in accordance with the provisions of Appendix I to this Order, on one of the specific prints prepared by the National Haras Public Institution. It is dated and signed by the authorized person.
The authorized person performing the reporting statement shall issue to the owner or his or her representative a provisional identification certificate valid for three months, including when using the computer means referred to in Article 3 of this Order. The authorized person shall, within eight days, address the Public Institution Reporting Form The National Haras for the edition of the identification document.
The registration number referred to in Article 2 of this Order is assigned by the National Haras Public Institution. This number is unique and cannot be reassigned. It consists of eight digits and a letter.
For the first time in France, this issue is supplemented by the national prefix and the international code of the central equine file to dial the official international number.
The numbers assigned to the trait horses before January 1, 2002, consisting of two numbers and four letters, remain valid.
For all equines registered for the first time in France, the shipper or owner may propose three names that meet the rules set out in Article 10. These proposals are forwarded to the public establishment The National Haras which examines them in the order of their presentation and determines the name of the equine according to the criteria set out in Article 10. If none of the proposed names can be accepted, the public establishment The National Haras asks the shipper or the owner to make new proposals.
However, for pure blood products, other than pure French blood or trottors, the name is registered after acceptance by the competent authorized body:
– for pure blood and other than pure blood products: France-Galop;
― for French trotary products: the Société d'encouragement à l'exploitation du cheval français.
(a) cannot be accepted:
1. Any name that consists of more than twenty and one letters, signs or spaces or more than eighteen letters for a pure blood horse, other than pure blood or French scrubber;
2. Any name with initials, numbers, line of union, tréma or cédille.
(b) Can be refused:
1. Names that may be confusing;
2. Names of personalities, except written permission of the interested person;
3. Names whose meaning, pronunciation, consonance or spelling are considered rude or abusive;
4. The names already used.
(c) The stud-book regulations may set complementary rules for the attribution and change of names of registered equines.
In the absence of specific rules, the name of equine origins born in the same year begins with the same letter issued year after year in alphabetical order excluding the letters W, X, Y and Z. The letter of the year 2007 is T. When the regulation of the book or of the stud-book provides, it may be amended upon request of the owner and, if applicable, with the agreement of the dwarf, to the extent that the animal concerned has not yet reproduced or participated in official races or competitions.
(d) Unless specific requirements of the stud-book regulation in which the horse is registered, the name of the horse may include a flocking affix.
The manager of the central zootechnical file manages livestock affixes on behalf of natural or legal persons who have applied for them. It ensures that only depositaries or persons authorized by them use them.
The National Haras Public Institution is responsible for establishing the equine identification document and the registration card referred to in section 2 of this Order. These documents are sent within two months of receipt of all necessary information. The models of the documents are specified by order of the Minister for Agriculture.
The horse identification document and the registration card shall be sent to the declared owner unless otherwise directed by the owner or, in the case of a condominium, to the first owner mentioned, the owner shall transmit, if any, the identification document to the holder of the equine.
The reporting verification shall be performed before any official activity of the horse or not earlier than twelve months after the reporting statement under the mother.
The authorized person performing the reporting verification must complete the graphical part and indicate any corrections or additions and, where appropriate, the "compliant reporting" statement in the part of the document reserved for that purpose. Castration must have been certified by the veterinarian who practised it and be expressly indicated with reference to the date.
On the occasion of the reporting verification, the authorized person verifies the legibility of the transponder and the consistency of his or her number with that on the identification document.
Upon verification of the report, the identification document bearing the name and address of the holder of the horse is sent by the holder to the public establishment Les Haras Nationals within eight days to be validated. After registration and application of the visa, the identification document is returned to the holder of the horse no later than two months.
A photocopy of the part of the identification document including the animal's report, valid for three months, is referred to and dated by the person authorized during the verification of the report in order to allow the holder to justify the identity of the animal during the validation period of the booklet.
If, at the time of verification, the report of the horse or the electronic transponder number does not correspond to those on the identification document, an investigation is opened.
In this case, a file with the following elements is referred to the National Haras Public Institution:
the identification document;
― the animal reporting form submitted.
The identification document must accompany the animal in all its movements and be submitted to any control of the competent authority. He follows straight the animal sold.
The registration card allows you to track the property changes of the animal. It can be dematerialized.
The registration card bears the same number as the identification document and is established on behalf of the registered owner(s). In the event of a co-ownership comprising not more than four members, mention is made of the share of each. In case of condominium comprising five or more members, it is indicated on the registration card that the equine is indivision.
At each transfer of ownership, the registration card must be completed and returned to the public establishment Les Haras national by the new owner within eight days of the transfer.
The public establishment The National Haras publishes, within a maximum of two months, a new card on behalf of the new owner(s).
The participation of the owners in the preparation costs of the documents provided for in this Order, as well as the filing and management of the livestock feeds provided for in section 10, shall be determined annually by the board of directors of the public establishment Les Haras nationales.
In the event of a loss of the identification document, a new document may be established, dependant on the applicant to prove that it is the same animal. If it cannot be established that it is the same animal, the animal is identified in accordance with the provisions of article 2 of this decree and receives the name "unrecognized origin".
In the event of a loss of the registration card, a new dependant card may be established for the owner to provide the supporting documentation required by the public establishment The National Haras.
The costs of investigating and establishing such duplicates are borne by the applicant: they are set annually by the board of directors of the public establishment Les Haras Nationals.
Without prejudice to the controls carried out by agentsArticle L. 212-13 of the Rural Codeany horse involved in an official activity related to races, sport or livestock may be subject to identity checks. The regulation of these activities provides for the terms and conditions of application.
The person in charge of the control must refer to the document and note the "compliant reporting" with date and signature and the circumstances of the control.
If the report of the presented horse does not correspond to the one on the accompanying document, the person performing the control must transmit it, accompanied by the descriptive and graphical report to the approved horse authority concerned. The latter transmits it for investigation to the public establishment Les Haras national.
The public establishment The National Haras retains any document from which it is established that it does not relate to the horse presented; notification is made to interested persons.
This provision does not preclude the application of other sanctions under the existing regulations.
Any animal introduced or imported, not intended directly to the slaughterhouse under cover of a health certificate, must be registered with the public establishment Les Haras national.
It must be subject to a registration request within eight days of its importation or introduction into the national territory.
The application for registration shall include a statement of the equine made in France in accordance with the provisions of Annex I to this order by an authorized person as well as all documents to establish the identity of the animal and, where applicable, its filiation.
The concordance between reports on national territory and those on foreign documents is validated by the public establishment Les Haras national. In the event of an anomaly, additional information is requested from the authorized person and, where appropriate, an investigation shall be initiated with the foreign authority issuing these documents.
The validity of foreign documents attesting to the origins of the equine is controlled by the public institution The National Haras, if any, under the conditions set out in the regulation of the French stud-book concerned. In particular, it ensures that:
the document is authentic;
the authority that issued the documents is an officially recognized authority;
― information relating to the filiation of the animal is certified by that authority.
As necessary, an investigation is carried out by the public establishment Les Haras national.
When the origins of the equine are certified by a recognized authority, they are taken into account. When the equine is registered in a recognized sty-book, it bears the name of the sty-book in which it is registered. Otherwise, the equine bears the name "foreign origin".
If the identification document conforms to the community model and includes a translation into French, the document is validated by the national Haras public institution.
In all other cases, a new document is edited by the National Haras public institution. To the extent possible, the original document is inserted in the new booklet.
In case of material impossibility, the original document is retained by the public institution The National Haras and is exchanged, upon request of the owner, against the identification document published by the public establishment Les Haras Nationals during the departure of the animal from the French territory.
A registration card is edited. It is established on behalf of the owner declared during the realization of the animal's report.
These documents are sent to the declared owner or holder upon request of the owner, within two months of receipt of the necessary information.
When, following an investigation conducted under sections 24 or 25, the identity or filiation of an equine born outside the national territory cannot be certified, the animal is registered and an identification document and a registration card are edited. However, no filiation is recorded, the animal is declared of unrecognized origin.
The authorized person reporting the product under the mother must, in advance:
1° Ensure the mother's identity by comparing her report and the transponder's number to those on the identification document. The reference to the control is included on the harrow identification document with date and signature;
2° To be presented either the certificate of sail, or a copy of the certificate of foreign sail, or a duplicate of the birth certificate for products from an undeclared sail.
In the event of the death of the hen, or if a premature withdrawal becomes obligatory for another reason, it is the responsibility of the owner or his representative to establish by a person authorized a product report before separation.
For equines born in France, the identification document is the certificate of origin if the equine is:
―from a regularly-reported projection to the public establishment Les Haras Nationals, a standard or a baudet approved to produce in a stud-book or a register and if no element calls into question the declared filiation;
– either from an unreported ailure and was the subject of a birth certificate and a genotype-compatible filiation control.
In all other cases, for equines born in France, filiation is not registered and the identified animal is declared of unrecognized origin.
The procedure for recording the filiation of an equinee is described in Appendix II to this Order.
At paragraph 1 of Article 10 of the Order of May 21, 2004 concerning the complementary identification of equinees, the mention "or his mother if the act is made at the birth of the animal" is deleted.
The April 30, 2002 decision on the identification and certification of equine origins is repealed.
The March 14, 2001 Order relating to the Public Ride of Stables and Horse and Asine Species is repealed.
The Chief Food Officer, the Chief Forestry and Rural Affairs Officer and the Director General of the Public Institution The National Haras are responsible, each with regard to it, for the execution of this Order, which will be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
A N N E X E I
RELATIVE TO THE SIGNALING OF EQUIDED
Chapter I
Descriptive reporting
The descriptive reporting may be carried out either in a literal or codified manner. This report indicates the sex, dress and characteristics of the animal in the following order:
1. Description of the head: marks and ears;
2. Description of the trademarks of the members, successively: prior left, prior right, posterior left, posterior right;
3. If applicable, description of other white marks, pigmentation characters, neck ears, other permanent epis and anatomical details.
Section 1
Literal reporting
This annex only cites generalities, with the detail specified in the statement of a equine, a descriptive reporting part.
The descriptive report includes sex, dress and features.
1. Sex
The determination of the sex carries: female, male or hung.
Durable characteristic anomalies must be noted during the reporting verification. Mention is made of castration.
2. The dress
The dress is composed of a basic dress and possibly mixtures of hairs, dressings and additions:
The main basic dresses are black, pangarized black, bai, isabelle, mice, burnt alzan, alezan, milk coffee, palomino, white, gray, cream and chocolate.
The hair mixtures are either:
white: the granite effect (stable) and the graying effect (scalable) are then distinguished. When one does not know if the mixture is stable or scalable, one speaks of a mixed effect;
– of a black type: we then speak of smoked effect.
The dressings are either:
– of a pee type: there are five different types (tobiano, overo, balzan, sabino and tovero);
• Spotted type: the leopard type, stainted, caped and marmorated.
For horses with panachures that are not known to determine the basic dress, it is said that the dress is pie, stainted or leopard (following the type of panachure) without indicating a basic dress.
The color of the dress can possibly be specified by additions characterizing the hairs (mule chalk, crucial strip, scapular strip, zebras, pangaré, flaked, cap de Maure, light belly), crins (washed, silvery yells, mixed yells) or skin (champagne).
All basic dresses, mixtures of hairs, panachures and additions are described in the instruction on a equine reporting statement.
3. Particularities
These features must be the subject of an independent description of the dress.
A. ― Denomination and definition
1. Continuous white markings:
Beach of white hair on depigmented skin :
(a) On the front: header (may be replaced directly by the header form).
(b) On the chamfer: list.
(c) Members:
trace, if the mark does not turn the member;
- principle, if, by making the tower, it does not reach the lower quarter of the paturon;
– bracelet, if, by making the tower, it does not descend to the crown;
Balzane, in other cases.
(d) On the other parts of the body: mark.
2. Brands or mixed beaches:
(a) Grised: either white hair disseminated on a pigmented skin at the end of the nose or white hair on a limited beach dress.
(b) Mixed: hairs of the color of the dress disseminated in a white mark or on its edge or white hairs disseminated in the base dress (to be used only when you do not know if the mixture is stable or scalable).
(c) Edged: strip of black skin under white hair on the edge of brand or lawn.
3. Unmixed marks:
(a) Snow: small touff of white hair.
(b) Stretch: small toffee on a white or grey background.
(c) Herminure: black spot in a white mark.
(d) Charcoal: black spot on a fave background.
(e) Chest of the dress: coat plate of the color of the dress on a white mark.
(f) Breathing: small black hair blows.
4. Epis:
Divergent or convergent poils around a more or less apparent point.
5. Ladre:
Skin stripped without hair. Lightning is generally located near the natural holes. The dark spots on the ladar are called marbling.
B. ∙ Form
1. The shape of the white marks is defined by comparison with simple geometric shapes, with known graphic representation, and by their characteristic contour irregularities. The same applies to brands, spots or beaches if their contours are sufficiently precise.
2. The shape of the ears:
The spike is simple (not specified) if the hairs diverge around an apparent center;
The epi is penned if it recalls a feather beginning with a single epi;
The epi is sinuous if its pennure is not straight;
The epi is confused if a one-time centre does not appear;
The spike is spiraled if the hairs diverge by turning.
C. ― Location, size, orientation
1. The location is defined in relation to external anatomical markers:
For the frontal area, the location is defined in relation to a median vertical axis, and then in relation to one of the horizontal axes passing through the salt-line, the arcades line, the upper eye line, the average eye line or the lower eye line.
For the Balzanes, the indication is made a member by member, excluding collective terms.
Comparative indication of the locations of marks or spikes, or marks between them and spikes, must be specified.
2. The dimension is given by the beginning and end indication, compared to external anatomical markers.
Quantitative adjectives should be excluded for members.
3. The orientation is given either in relation to external anatomical markers, or in relation to horizontal or vertical axes.
4. Other special signs:
Can be quoted the localized pigmentation or depigmentation characters such as vairon eye, clear eye (blue, hazel), clear ends, sabot colour: clear, dark, striated sabots.
Among the other anatomical details, should be quoted only those with non-subjective and permanent character, such as spearhead, scar.
Section 2
Codified reporting
An instruction to the persons authorized for the identification of equinees specifies, according to the equine categories, the terms of the codified reporting.
Chapter II
Graphical reporting
An instruction to persons authorized for the identification of equinees specifies the terms and conditions of the graphical reporting statement.
The graphical signaling only includes the particularities.
A N N E X E I
INSTRUCTIONS ON THE PROCEDURE
FOR THE ENREGISTING OF THE FILIATION OF
Chapter I
Products derived from reported slabs or baudets approved to produce in a stud-book or register.
Section 1
Obligations of the stallion
For any standard approved in accordance with the provisions of article R. 653-82 of the rural code, a set of sail cards, valid for a single climbing season, is delivered by the public establishment National Haras to the owner of the stallion or to persons with a mandate of the owner or who can attest to the ownership of the doses.
These maps indicate the stud-books and records for which the standard is approved.
The stallion must comply with the instructions for holding the mounting documents that are communicated to it by the public establishment Les Haras Nationales.
The participation of the proprietors of stallions at the cost of establishing the sail cards is determined annually by the board of directors of the public establishment Les Haras national.
When the stallion has to change the parking space during the climbing season, the owner of the stallion must notify the public establishment The National Haras within eight days of the change. The procedure is identical in case of mutation during the climbing season.
Thickness cards, which are issued only to stamps and baudets approved to produce in a stud-book or register, are the support used to record the filiation of their products. They are in the form of a self-slip leg consisting of several flaps including a first-run declaration (DPS).
The stallion is required to verify the identity of the juments that are presented to it prior to the sail and to affix its visa to the jument identification document. The stallion fills the DPS from the first presentation of the mare to the stallion and transmits it within fifteen days of the first jump to the public establishment Les Haras national. When the rise involves the use of artificial reproduction techniques, these responsibilities are assumed by people carrying out the insemination and harvesting and transfer of embryos.
Failure to these rules can lead to the withdrawal of the approval of the stallion. In addition, the board of directors of the public establishment The National Haras may set the deadlines beyond which the registration of the DPS results in a payment of instruction fees, of which it sets the amount.
It may also be reported electronically on the National Haras website.
Unused hedge cards and strains must be returned to the National Haras public facility before September 1. In the context of the uprising or when a junction must be cleared before its departure for the southern hemisphere, the climbing season continues until December 31 and the lattice cards must be returned before January 15 of the following year to the public establishment Les Haras national.
Section 2
Blood stallions and ponys
The liasse consists of four components:
1. First jump statement.
2. The sail certificate is delivered by the stallion to the breeder at the end of the climb. The stallion must mention each jump and certify, by its signature, the date of the last jump:
It certifies the realization of the sail and allows the prospective purchaser of the junction to be informed of the remaining amounts to be paid to the stallioner when it is a split-paying device.
It must be submitted during the reporting statement. In particular, it allows the person responsible for the reporting to identify the product's sail and to certify the intervention.
It allows to declare, if any, the abortion, the vacuity or death of the mare and/or its product, and must then be returned, after being completed in the back, to the public establishment Les Haras national.
3. The certificate of sail on the back of which the declaration of birth is given to the breeder at the end of the climb. The standard store can keep this document to the full regulation of the sail price.
The birth declaration must be transmitted, after being duly completed, within fifteen days of birth to the National Haras public institution.
The shipment must be accompanied by a cheque of an amount that corresponds to an interest in the expenses incurred to establish the accompanying document and the registration card of the product increased, if any, the amount relating to the filiation control or DNA typing of the mother of the product.
It is up to the dungeon or potential constrainers to ensure that the "nouncing" is properly completed before the birth declaration is sent.
4. The sail declaration must remain attached to the archived sail book at the National Haras Public Institution.
Section 3
The stallions and donkeys
The liasse consists of three components:
1. The declaration of first jump of the year and the declaration of the result of the previous year's sail are on the same document.
The statement of the result of the sail of the previous year is supplemented by the calibration and includes, where applicable, the birth declaration of the product that must be covered by the dwarf. It is up to the dagger to ensure that the said statement is properly completed before this document is sent.
2. The sail certificate is given by the stallion to the breeder at the end of the climb. The stallion must mention each jump and certify, by its signature, the date of the last jump. The standard store can keep this document to the full regulation of the sail price.
It must be presented during the reporting statement. In particular, it allows the person responsible for the reporting to identify the product's sail and to certify the intervention.
When the junction is not presented the following year to the lattice of a lattice type, this document allows to declare the result of the lattice of the year and, where applicable, the birth of the product. It must be transmitted, after being duly completed, within fifteen days of birth to the National Haras public institution.
3. The sail declaration must remain attached to the archived sail book at the National Haras Public Institution.
Chapter II
Special cases
1. Products from undeclared buckets.
Unapproved studs and baudets do not receive sail cards.
The birth of the product must be declared using the form provided for this purpose.
The form is made up of a 2-part bundle:
― the first part must be sent within fifteen days to the public establishment Les Haras National;
― the second part is retained by the dagger, it must be presented during the reporting statement and in particular, it allows the person responsible to report it to be closer to the birth declaration of the product.
A filiation check must be performed to authenticate filiation.
2. Embryons transfers:
A junction that is at the origin of an embryonic transfer must be declared, prior to the first projection, on a form provided for this purpose completed by the owner and transmitted to the public establishment Les Haras national.
After the first jump, the stallion must hand over to the breeder the sail certificate on which the declaration of the embryonic transfer appears. The certificate must be transmitted, after being duly completed by the transfer centre, to the public establishment Les Haras national. It will be targeted and returned to the husband of the mare within eight days.
When a mare is at the origin of several transfers, it must be established as many declarations of first jump as transferred embryos.
A filiation check must be performed to authenticate filiation.
3. Special cases of reviews:
If the mare was sailed in the same year by several stallions, there are several sail documents issued. This is the document that corresponds to the last standard to be used to establish the birth declaration.
A filiation check must be performed to authenticate filiation.
4. For products born in France of hedge harrows abroad:
The public establishment The National Haras makes available to breeders the special documents for the juments of a product designed abroad in France.
The foreign certificate must be attached to the birth certificate and sent within fifteen days of birth to the National Haras Public Institution.
A photocopy referred to by the public establishment The National Haras of the foreign sail certificate is retained with the sail certificate to be submitted to the identifier at the time of the report of the product under the mother.
5. Investigations:
In the event of doubt as to the identity of the product and in all cases provided for in the regulations, the owner of the product must submit to the investigation opened by the public establishment Les Haras nationales. This investigation includes, where applicable, biological examinations on the hen and its product.
The financial management of the sampling and analysis costs is carried out in accordance with the provisions of the amended 15 February 1994 order referred to above.
Done in Paris, 2 April 2008.
Michel Barnier
