Livestock And Livestock Products Traceability Act.

The purpose of this Act is to contribute to enhancing efficiency in preventing epidemics and guaranteeing the safety of livestock products, thereby protecting and promoting consumers’ interests, and to the sound development of the livestock industry and other related industries, by prescribing matters necessary for the traceability of livestock and livestock products. Article 4 establishes that each person who operates a livestock breeding facility (including a person who directly manages a livestock breeding facility) shall apply for allocation of a farm identification number to the Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs. The text – consisting of 35 articles – deals, inter alia, with the following aspects: Reporting Birth (art. 5); Allocation of Individual Identification Numbers (art. 6); Ear Tagging (art. 7); Marking Farm Identification Numbers (art. 8); Prohibition on Movement of Livestock without Ear Tags (9); Reporting Slaughter, etc. and Indication of Serial Numbers (11); Prohibition on Forgery (15); Packaging and Trade Reporting of Meat Packers (art. 17); Preparation of Livestock and Livestock Product Identification Register (art. 19); Establishment, etc. of Traceability System (art. 27); Penalty Provisions (art. 32).