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Livestock movements, identification and tracing: Cattle Identification Inspections Programme Great Britain 2004

The reporting period for the purposes of this report is from 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005

Report on the results of controls made in the bovine sector regarding European Community provisions for identification and registration (Commission Regulation (EC) No 499/2004)

1. General information on animals and inspections
Total number of holdings1 registered in EU Member State’s territory as registered at the beginning of the reporting/inspector period
86,262*
Total number of holdings inspected
12,500**
Total number of inspections made
9,274
Total number of bovine livestock as registered at the beginning of the reporting/inspection period
9,525,511
Total number of bovines in inspected holdings
1,582,639
1As defined in the second indent of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000
2. Breaches found by category
 
Affected animals
Affected holdings
1. Animal identification failure
22,020
1,974
2. Holding register discrepancies
40,333
2,542
3. Failure to notify birth, death or movement
66,495
4,205
4. Passport anomalies
27,121
3,580
5. Animals/holdings with only 1 breach as listed in point 1-4
119,455
2,121
6. Animals/holdings with more than 1 breach as listed in point 1-4
17,549
3,863
7. Animals/holdings with breaches in total (points 5 and 6)
137,004
5,984

Inspection codes in each category

  1. TG
  2. NF, MV
  3. DD, FM, NA
  4. OP, ID, LZ, DB, NP, CD

See appendix A for a breakdown of discrepancies observed.

3. Sanctions imposed according to Regulation (EC) No 494/98
 
Affected animals
Affected holdings
1. Restriction of movements of individual bovines
12,695
1,264
2. Restriction of movements of all bovines on the holding
9,826
100
3. Destruction of animals
134
5
In total
22,655
1,369

* The total number of registered holdings is lower in comparison to last year's total. This was the result of holdings being closed on the database following notification by keepers (via returned statements) that the holdings were no longer used to keep cattle
** The total number of holdings inspected is proportionately higher than the total number of inspections made as in GB often the inspection will involve more than one holding; these are usually linked holdings belonging to the same producer

Appendix A

(a) Breakdown of the selection of the holdings inspected in Great Britain according to the criteria of risk analysis and with reference to the authority that undertook these inspections
  Total holdings at the start of the inspection year
10% of holdings
England
112,617
7,661
Scotland
15,075
1,762
Wales
11,549
1,854
Total
9,715,596
11,277

Inspections were undertaken:

  • in England, by inspecting officers of the Rural Payments Agency on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
  • in Scotland, by inspecting officers of the Scottish Executive’s 16 Area Offices
  • in Wales, by inspecting officers of the National Assembly for Wales Agriculture and Rural Affairs Department's three regional offices
(b) Criteria for risk analysis
  • The CII selection for England is undertaken by the RPA using the Combined Bovine Risk Analysis (CoBRA) System, which interfaces with CTS. For the inspection year just passed and up until the current CII year (1 June 2005 to 31 May 2006) a separate IT tool had been used to select inspections for Scotland and Wales. From 2005/06 onwards the risk analysis will be run for GB using the same IT tool
  • Holdings are primarily selected by a risk assessment. The content of the risk assessment is dictated by the regulatory risk factors set out in Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1082/2003
(c) Types of discrepancy observed

On each occasion that a discrepancy is detected the individual animal is flagged on the Cattle Tracing System (CTS) database with one of the following statuses:

  • DB - Incorrect date of birth
  • NA - Passport present without animal
  • TG - Animal incorrectly tagged/missing tags
  • ID - Dam ID error with potential DBES impact
  • FM - Failure to report movement
  • NF - Animal not found in farm records
  • DD - Passport not returned for dead animal
  • MV - Movement details not recorded/incorrectly recorded
  • NP - Animal without passport

Report produced by:

Exotic Disease Prevention Control Division
Animal Health Directorate
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Statistics prepared by:

British Cattle Movement Service/Rural Payments Agency
for
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department
National Assembly for Wales Agriculture and Rural Affairs Department

31 August 2005

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