Electronic Identification

EUROPEAN LIVESTOCK AND MEAT TRADES UNION

UECBV

Proposal amending Regulation (EC) 1760/2000

30 August 2011: The European Commission transmitted to the Council and the European Parliament a Commission proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 as regards electronic identification of bovine animals and deleting the provisions on voluntary beef labeling. • legal framework for the introduction, on a voluntary basis, of

an EID for bovine animals (the Commission proposal allows MS to introduce a mandatory regime at national level)

• repeals the current provisions on voluntary beef labelling with the main objective is to reduce unnecessary administrative burden.

EID – BOVINE

State of play:• 11th January 2012: EP COMENVI published a Draft Report

on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 as regards electronic identification of bovine animals and deleting the provisions on voluntary beef labelling

• Rapporteur: Sophie Auconie.• The rapporteur welcomes the Commission’s legislative

proposal, which will enhance the safety of beef for consumers.

• The draft report proposing some minor amendments (clarifications).

EID – BOVINE

• the rapporteur calls for the provision of information to those operating the animal identification and registration system to be free of charge to the recipient, in order to protect small farmers and other operators in the ID system.

• in order not to hinder trade within the internal market, the Commission should inform the Member States of the solutions adopted on the territories of those Member States that have opted for compulsory EID

• the Commission, no later than five years after the entry into force of this regulation, should submit to EP and the Council a report and, where appropriate, relevant proposals for the implementation of these rules and for changes that are needed to achieve or maintain an optimum level of food safety..

EID – BOVINE

AEMB Position??

• Support the Commission proposal and the Commission approach?

• Harmonization of implementation (optional, technical)

• Why compulsory system for sheep and voluntary system for bovines?

EID – BOVINE

Background

• Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 foresees the gradual introduction of individual traceability based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).

• Following the Report from the Commission from 2007, EID for goats and sheep became compulsory.

The following steps have been set: Electronic tagging for all animals born after 31st December 2009

(Member States with small populations of sheep and goats may make EID optional for animals not involved in intra-Community trade);

Recording of individual animal codes during movements (individual tracking);

• From 1st January 2011 for all animals born after 31st December 2009; • From 1st January 2012 for all animals.

EID- Sheep and Goats

UK Proposal: Deferring the date from which individual recording begins until 31 December 2016.EX: - in Great Britain, at Dec 2010 there were 13 million older breeding sheep that are not required to be electronically identified.- There will be a year on year decrease of non EID animals until 2016 when the majority of the non EID breeding animals will have been culled.

EID- Sheep and Goats

EU Commission: On 6th December 2011, SCoFCAH experts approved a proposal to postpone until the end of 2014 the obligatory recording of the individual movement of the sheep born before 1 January 2010 when these animals are moved.

EID- Sheep and Goats

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