Sheep and Goats Identification (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (S.S.I. No. 418 of 2000).

These Regulations make provisions for records concerning sheep and goats and for the marking of sheep and goats. They implement the provisions relating to sheep and goats of Council Directive 92/102/EC on the identification and registration of animals. The Regulations require a person to notify the Scottish Ministers, and the Scottish Ministers allocate to keepers a flockmark in case of sheep and a herdmark in case of goats (reg. 3). The Regulations require anyone keeping sheep or goats to keep movement records. Sheepmeat producers who are granted premium under Council Regulation 3493/90/EC laying down general rules for the grant of premium to sheepmeat and goatmeat producers are required to keep additional records relating to specified events (regs. 4 to 6). The Regulations make provision for marking sheep and goats either by an eartag or by a tattoo. Subject to certain exceptions and transitional provisions, marking is required for all sheep and goats born or first moved off the holding of birth after the coming into force of the Regulations, and for all sheep and goats imported into Scotland from outside the European Union (regs. 7 and 8). The Regulations prohibit bringing sheep or goats into Scotland from another Member State or from another part of the British Islands, unless they are marked in accordance with the legislation in force in those places (regs. 9 and 10). The Regulations require marking sheep and goats when they are consigned to a destination outside Great Britain (reg. 11). They provide for marking sheep or goats with a temporary mark when moved to a destination within Great Britain and provide for documentation to be carried during such movements, both subject to certain exceptions (regs. 12 and 13).