20.1.2012 Official Journal of the European Union L 17/1 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 45/2012 of 19 January 2012 amending the Annex to Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 as regards the content of the movement documents (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Manual recording of non-electronic identifiers requires considerable effort on the part of keepers and represents a potential source of errors. Union, (5)  The particular situation for animals born until 31 December 2009 was taken into account as regards the requirement to record individual animal codes in the Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 of movement dfocumﬁnt. .Thle tisks 1ass;)lc1afled with 17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification fnolve?dnentzl g suc .an}tr‘na; toa ls aughter 01cllse. are and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending tmite lin d o not ﬁl stéy the supplementary a H.nmi_ Regulation (EC) No 17822003 and Directives 92/102/EEC tra“"‘ji o, Posed Y t }alt fq‘”rm}em' hAmmaS and 64/432[EEC (1), and in particular Article 10(1) thereof, moved directly to a slaughterhouse in  the same Member State were therefore exempted from that requirement regardless of the date of movement of the animals. Whereas: (6)  In order to further reduce the administrative burden for operators, the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 21/2004, as (1) Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 provides that each Member amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No State is to establi.sh a system.for the ideqtification and 933/2008 (3, provides that the requirement of registration Of ovine and caprine aplmals in accordance recording the individual animal code in the movement with the provisions of that Regulation. document is not obligatory for animals born until 31 December 2009, until 31 December 2011, for all movements other than to a slaughterhouse directly or (2)  That system is to comprise four elements, namely: means via a channelling procedure. of identification to identify each animal (‘means of identi- fication), tu%—to—date treglstgrs kept torll eac.};t holding, (7)  During the time this transitional period has been in force, movement documents and a central register or a L e : computer database. The Annex to. that Regulation cets no major failures in the system have been reported to the ph . < for th | 8 Commission services as a result of the implementation of out the requirements for those elements. this derogation. 3) Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 provides that, as from (8) However, in some Member States, due to the particular S 31 December 2009, electronic identification is to be obligatory for all animals born after that date. However, the majority of animals born until that date are still only identified with non-electronic identifiers. The individual animal code contained in the non-elec- tronic identifiers can only be recorded manually. () O] L 5, 9.1.2004, p. 8. way ovine and caprine animals are kept, data shows that animals born until 31 December 2009 will still form a substantial part of the ovine and caprine population until 31 December 2014. The risks associated with their movements would be constantly decreasing, propor- tionally to the decrease in the number of such animals. However, manual recording of non-electronic identifiers in those cases would still represent a substantial adminis- trative burden on keepers of such animals. () O] L 256, 24.9.2008, p. 5.