Animal labelling

2024

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation approved the labeling of service animals with chips

At the end of September 2024, it became known that MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia it approved the procedure for marking and recording service animals - horses and dogs. We are talking about the use of special implantable microchips.

The document says that service horses are subject to registration in the combat units of the patrol and guard service of the police of the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Dogs (puppies) should be taken into account in the cynological units of the internal affairs bodies, in the federal state government institution "Expert and Forensic Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation" and in the expert and forensic units of the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

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The labeling procedure is carried out by a specialist in the field of veterinary medicine. For this purpose, special single-use injection systems and sterile packed microchips that have not expired should be used. At the same time, the following requirements are imposed on the chips themselves:

• Resistance to external conditions, including changes in temperature in the range from minus 40 to plus 45 degrees Celsius;
• Safety for animal health;
• Electronic readability for the entire life of the service animal;
• Not reusable.

In dogs and puppies, the microchip is implanted on the left side of the neck between the ear and shoulder, in horses - in the area of ​ ​ the elm ligament in the middle between the withers and the back of the head or at the base of the animal's ear. After completing the procedure, the functionality of the chip should be checked by reading information from it using a special scanner. After marking, each service animal is subject to registration in the cavalry unit, cynological unit, forensic unit under the identification number programmed in the microchip.^[1]

Mandatory labeling of farm animals began to operate in Russia

On March 1, 2024, mandatory labeling of farm animals began to operate in Russia. They will be assigned a unique alphanumeric identification number, which is prescribed to be entered into the federal state information system "VetIS." This number will be valid during the life of the beast. Re-accounting of an individually labeled animal is prohibited. In Russia, it is necessary to label:

• cattle (including zebu, buffalo and yak);
• horses;
• donkeys, mules and loshaks;
• camels;
• bees;
• pigs;
• sheep and goats;
• poultry (including chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, quail, ostriches);
• deer;
• fur beasts (including foxes, sables, minks, ferrets, arctic foxes, raccoon dogs, nutria);
• rabbits;
• fish and other aquaculture objects.

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Until September 1, 2024, cattle and pigs should be marked and registered at enterprises and personal subsidiary farms (private farms), as well as poultry and horses in the industrial sector.

Until March 1, 2025, it is necessary to register horses in private farms, and until September 1 of the same year - bees and fur animals in farms of all forms of ownership, as well as camels, deer and rabbits in the industrial sector.

Until March 1, 2026, it is necessary to register fish (except for private farms), and until September 1 of the same year - all small cattle, as well as camels, deer, rabbits and poultry kept in private farms. Moreover, for poultry and rabbits there is the following clarification - by September 1, 2026, it is necessary to mark and register animals in farms where there are over 10 heads. If there are fewer birds and rabbits, then for owners the deadline was shifted until September 1, 2029.

According to the authors of the initiative, it will prevent the spread of contagious animal diseases, as well as identify the sources and ways of spread of pathogens.^[2]

2023: A law on the mandatory labeling of livestock, fish, birds, bees and service dogs came into force in Russia. Data will be stored in GIS

On September 1, 2023, a law on the mandatory labeling of farm animals and service dogs entered into force in Russia. In particular, cows, horses, donkeys, pigs, bees, camels, sheep, goats, poultry, deer, fur animals, rabbits, fish are subject to individual or group labeling and accounting.

Each animal or group of animals will be assigned a unique identification number (UIN) consisting of letters and numbers. It will operate throughout the life of the animal or throughout the existence of a group of animals. The animal card in the system will contain, in particular, information about its gender, age, biological form and breed, as well as information about the means of its marking, place of detention and data of the owner. The import date will be entered into the card of animals imported into Russia, among other things. Information on labeled animals will be entered into the state information system of the Rosselkhoznadzor in the field of veterinary medicine "VetIS"

Law on mandatory labeling of farm animals and service dogs comes into force

Cattle (cattle), as well as horses, donkeys, mules are subject to individual labeling no later than September 1, 2024 (cattle in personal subsidiary farms (private farms) - also before this date, the rest - until March 1, 2025). Individual labeling of camels - no later than September 1, 2025, for those contained in private household plots - no later than September 1, 2026.

Pigs are subject to group labeling and accounting until September 1, 2024, bees no later than September 1, 2025, and small cattle no later than September 1, 2026; poultry must be accounted for in this way no later than September 1, 2024 (individual accounting is possible at the request of the owner of the animal, the terms for private household plots are the same, with the exception of poultry).

As the head of the National Meat Association Sergei Yushin told RBC Rostov, mandatory labeling will have a positive effect on all livestock companies in the country.

Mandatory labeling of animals will affect everyone equally and, above all, positively. Because it is difficult to imagine a country that produces meat so much that it is in fourth place in the world, and, at the same time, does not know where which animals are. There are some statistics from farms that do not come with the same regularity as we would like. Because of this, animal diseases occur, their illegal transportation and transportation. We must become civilized, not only produce huge volumes of meat, but also understand what is happening in the industry. Labelling is a long overdue necessity and time requirement, "he commented.[3]

2022

Reindeer were marked with Silflex electronic ear tags 3D-A

20,000 deer of the three western regions of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug - Priuralsky, Shuryshkarsky and Yamalsky - were marked in the summer of 2022 with Silflex 3D-A electronic ear tags. This was reported by the Siltek Group of Companies on July 26, 2022. Read more here.

Putin signed a law on the mandatory labeling of agricultural animals and the placement of this data in a single GIS

In June 2022, the president Russia Vladimir Putin signed a law on the mandatory labeling of farm animals and the placement of relevant data in the unified database of the Federal state Information System in the field of veterinary medicine. More. here

2020

Ministry of Agriculture plans to introduce mandatory digital labeling of pets

On August 24, 2020, it became known that the Ministry of Agriculture will introduce mandatory digital labeling of pets. For her absence, citizens will be fined in the amount of 500-1000 rubles.

According to Izvestia, the ministry is preparing the second version of the document for the summer. In the presidential administration, the first version of the document caused complaints, in connection with which the document was returned back to the Ministry of Agriculture.

The press service of the ministry told the publication that the labeling is carried out by the owners at their own expense, but they have the right to independently choose the type of labeling means from those that will be provided for by veterinary rules depending on the type of animal. Among them is chipping.

The unified database will include information about almost all human-owned animals, including cats, co-animals, cows, pigs, birds, sheep and goats, horses, rabbits, reindeer, donkeys, mules and loshaks, camels and fur animals.

The Ministry of Agriculture will introduce mandatory digital labeling of pets

The ministry expects that the law will work from January 1, 2021. The State Duma is ready to support the initiative if the Ministry of Agriculture finalizes it, said Vladimir Burmatov, head of the lower house committee on ecology. He proposed to postpone the entry into force of the norms on fines, so that the Russians had time to make the animals marked, and the authorities - to create the necessary infrastructure.

The Ministry of Agriculture should think not about fines, but about creating a registration and labeling procedure that is as convenient and accessible as possible for citizens so that a person can leave the house and register his pet, and not go to the city from the village 60 kilometers with his cat, Burmatov said.

The labeling bill was developed in accordance with the instructions of the president of September 2015. Such a system is necessary to ensure veterinary safety in the country, as well as to track animals and livestock products on the principle of "from farm to counter," the Ministry of Agriculture said.

Mandatory registration is needed to earn the law on responsible treatment of animals. Identification will make it possible to establish and suppress the foci of the spread of veterinary diseases that pets carry.^[4]

Cattle in Primorye began to implant chips

On July 7, 2020, it became known about the start of chipping farm animals in Primorye. The main goal of the livestock identification and automation project of the livestock industry is to ensure the anti-episootic and food security of the agro-industrial complex. Read more here.

2019: Domestic and homeless animals in Russia will be digitally labeled

At the end of November 2019, it became known that mandatory digital labeling of pets will be introduced in Russia. The corresponding bill was developed by the Ministry of Agriculture and sent for consideration to the government commission.

Thanks to the use of chips and special tattoos, official accounting and identification of pets will appear in Russia, including cats and dogs, small and cattle, pigs, fur animals, poultry, bees, fish, "other aquatic animals," as well as camels, deer, horses, donkeys, mules and loshaks.

The Ministry of Agriculture is preparing a system for identifying pets

In addition, mandatory labeling will also apply to homeless animals, Vladimir Burmatov, head of the State Duma Committee on Ecology and Environmental Protection, told RIA Novosti.

According to him, without such labeling, corruption in the field of number regulation cannot be defeated. The identification of stray animals will have to be carried out in shelters, he added.

Burmatov recalled that the State Duma has already made amendments to the Administrative Code on punishment for leaving animals on the street, as well as a law on municipal shelters. However, they, according to the parliamentarian, will not work without the mandatory labeling of pets.

According to Alexei Mayorov, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Agrarian and Food Policy , fines  for evading the implementation of the law must be introduced in order for the law on compulsory animal identification to actually act.

The labelling of the animal is expected to be handled by state veterinary services. The procedure itself is the application of visual signs or the introduction of electronic microcircuits into the animal's body. The Committee on Ecology demanded that the procedure be free and accessible "even for grandmothers from the village."^[5]

Total Turnover Control System

• State Information System for Marking Goods
• Counterfeit Goods Monitoring System
• National Commodity Traceability System (NSP)
• CRPT: National Catalogue
• System of accounting (marking) of tobacco products
• Monitoring of Drug Product Movement
• Digital labeling of footwear products
• Mineral and potable bottled water labeling
• Labeling of dairy products
• RFID-labeling of alcohol in Russia
• Perfume labelling
• State system in the field of control over the turnover of precious metals, precious stones and products from them (GIIS DMDK)
• Marking of fur coats and fur products
• Animal labelling

• A system of total control of trade turnover is being created in Russia

See also

• Digitalization in the agro-industrial complex of Russia
• IT in the agro-industrial complex in the world

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