BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) (ITALPRESS) – With 558 votes in favor, 35 against and 52 abstentions, MEPs have given the definitive free way to the first EU rules regarding breeding, detention, traceability, import and management of dogs and cats. The new regulation, the result of an agreement with the Council, introduces the obligation for all dogs and cats held in the EU, including privately owned dogs, to be identified by microchip and registered in interoperable national databases. Sales, breeders and shelters will be four years from the entry into force of the legislation to adapt.
For pet owners who do not expect the sale, the obligation will enter into force after 10 years for dogs and after 15 for cats. The mating between parents and children will be prohibited, between brothers and other consanguinal couplings. It will also be forbidden to breed dogs and cats to give them exaggerated or excessive characteristics that involve significant health risks. New measures include the ban on mutilation of dogs and cats for exhibitions, exhibitions and competitions. It will also be forbidden to bind a dog or cat to an object (binding), unless necessary for medical care, and the use of strode collars or tips without integrated safety mechanisms.
To fill gaps that allow the entry of dogs and cats into the EU as non-commercial pets, and then to be destined after sale, the new legislation also extends to movements of non-commercial animals. Dogs and cats imported from extra countries EU for sale must be equipped with microchips before entering the EU and subsequently registered in a national database. All pet owners entering the EU will be obliged to pre-register their pet with microchips in a database at least five working days before arrival unless it is already registered in a database of a EU country.
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