Decree No. 17 of the Ministry of Agriculture validating Veterinary and Sanitary Regulation on sheep breeding.

This Veterinary and Sanitary Regulation establishes mandatory requirements for legal and natural persons, including individual entrepreneurs, related to safety of works and services concerning keeping, breeding, reproduction, movement, trade, slaughtering of livestock, disposal, burial and destruction of carcasses of animals. Before the transfer of sheep to pasture keeping, the pastures shall be examined and cleaned of debris, poisonous plants. Drinking water for sheep must comply with sanitary requirements, rules and regulations related to drinking water. Feedstuffs shall be inspected and examined before feeding and shall be kept in dry storage facilities free of insects and rodents. Straw shall be used as littering material. It is strictly forbidden to apply moldy, frozen, wet litter. Artificial insemination shall be applied at sheep breeding farms.