Commission Regulation (EC) No 509/1999 of 8 March 1999 concerning an extension of the maximum period laid down for the application of ear-tags to bison (Bison bison spp.)
Date: 1999-03-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cattle, data recording, database, labelling

9. 3. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 60/53

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 509/1999

of 8 March 1999

concerning an extension of the maximum period laid down for the application of
ear-tags to bison (Bison bison spp.)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 820/97 of
21 April 1997 establishing a system for the identification
and registration of bovine animals and regarding the
labelling of beef and beef products (1), and in particular
Article 4(2) thereof,

Having regard to the request submitted by the United
Kingdom and France,

Whereas the United Kingdom and France have requested
for an extension to nine months of the maximum period
laid down for the application of ear-tags to bison, due to
practical difficulties;

Whereas as bison might be reared in other Member States
too, this extension should apply for all Member States;

Whereas those bovine animals are kept in such farming
conditions where calves stay always close to their mother
until they are separated at the age of nine months at the
latest;

Whereas it is justified to take into account this request,
provided that the extension of the maximum period does
not affect the quality of information provided by the
national database and that there is no movement of such
animals to which ear-tags have not been applied;

the
Whereas Member States’
commitment not
to extend this derogation to other
elements of the identification and registration system of
bison;

authorities undertake

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the
European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Member States may extend up to nine months the
maximum period laid down by Article 4(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 820/97 regarding the application of ear-tags to
bison (Bison bison spp.).

This extension shall not effect the quality of information
provided by the national database.

Article 2

1.
The extension provided for in Article 1 shall be
granted subject to all the conditions set out in paragraphs
2 and 3.

2.

The animals shall belong to the Bison bison spp.

3.
The ear-tags shall be applied when the calves are
separated from their mothers and, in any case, before they
are nine months old. If an animal leaves the holding on
which it was born before that age, it shall be ear-tagged
before leaving the holding.

Article 3

Whereas this Regulation should be without prejudice to
the decisions to be adopted regarding the fully opera-
tional character of the national databases;

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 8 March 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 117, 7. 5. 1997, p. 1.