Order No. 498 of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy introducing identification and registration of sheep and goats. Country/Territory Ukraine Document type Regulation Date 2004 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Livestock Keyword Sheep/goats Registration Certification Animal production Animal health Herd book Traceability/product tracing Geographical area Black Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia Abstract The Regulation establishes the modalities of identification and registration of sheep and goats. All sheep and goats that are bred or kept in Ukraine shall be subject to compulsory identification and registration. The purpose of identification and registration of sheep and goats shall be: 1) access to reliable information on sex, age, breed and location of animals; 2) protection of the national territory against epizootic disease; 3) sanitary supervision of the sheep-breeding and goat-breeding farms and quality control and traceability of meat products; 4) veterinary supervision, prevention, cure of the infectious, invasive and non-contagious diseases; 5) observance of the pedigree standards in animal husbandry; 6) reliability of information in the process of certification of pedigree (genetic) resources. Identification and registration of sheep and goats shall include the following operations: 1) registration of sheep-breeding and goat-breeding farm; 2) numeration of animals by attaching tag containing the identification number; 3) registration of the identified animals in the herd book; 4) legalization and issuing of the registration certificate; 5) registration in the herd book of data regarding transfer, loss of animals, slaughtering, recycling etc. All the animals shall be identified by two tags that shall be attached to each ear and shall be kept for the whole animal life. Each tag must contain the same identification number. Identification number shall be composed of twelve symbols structured in the following manner: 1) positions one and two shall contain country code in letters; 2) positions three and four shall contain province code in figures; 3) positions five to twelve shall contain the last eight figures of the identification number of the animal of which the last five figures shall correspond to the working number of the animal. The official number of the identification tag for sheep shall be yellow and for goats chlorine. Full text Ukrainian Website www.rada.kiev.ua References - Legislation Repealed by Order No. 20 of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy validating the Regulation on identification and registration of sheep and goats. Legislation | Ukraine | 2018 Keyword: Sheep/goats, Marking/identification, Registration, Animal reproduction, Slaughtering, Certification, Animal production, Animal health, Herd book, Classification/declassification Source: FAO, FAOLEX