Food safety: computer databases for identification of bovine animals and swine

PURPOSE: to amend Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards computer databases which are part of the surveillance networks in the Member States.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Directive 2014/64/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 64/432/EEC as regards computer databases which are part of the surveillance networks in the Member States.

CONTENT: Council Directive 64/432/EEC on animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine applies to trade in bovine animals and swine within the Union. That Directive provides that the competent authority in a Member State may introduce a system of surveillance networks. Those networks include a computer database which is to contain at least a number of elements laid down in Directive 64/432/EEC, inter alia the identification code of each animal.

Regulation No 653/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council amended Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 as regards electronic identification of bovine animals.  Accordingly this Directive amends 64/432/EEC as regards computer databases which are part of the surveillance networks in the Member States. The new text includes changes relating to electronic means of identification.

The date of death or slaughter should also be included in the list of elements of the database.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 17.07.2014.