Regulation on zootechnical standards applicable to pure-bred breeding animals of bovine species.

This Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food lays down the zootechnical standards applicable to pure-bred breeding animals of bovine species, their semen, ova and embryos. For the purposes of these provisions pure-bred breeding animal means each animal of the bovine species, including buffalo, which meets conditions for breeding cattle in accordance with the regulation on animal husbandry, and whose parents and grandparents are entered in the herd book of the same breed, and is itself entered in the book. This Regulation is composed of 11 articles divided into the following Sections: General provisions (Sec. 1); Pedigree status (Sec. 2); Mixed seed (Sec. 3); Conditions on marketing of pure-bred breeding material (Sec. 4).