Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2168 of 21 September 2021 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2035 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards rules for establishments keeping terrestrial animals and hatcheries, and the traceability of certain kept terrestrial animals and hatching eggs (Text with EEA relevance)

By way of derogation from Article 94(1)(a), (c) and (d) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429, operators of the following types of establishments shall not be required to apply to the competent authority for approval of their establishments in accordance with Article 96(1) of that Regulation: (a) establishments for assembly operations of equine animals where those animals are gathered for the purposes of competitions, races, shows, training, collective leisure or work activities or in the context of breeding activities; (b) hatcheries of captive birds; (c) hatcheries from which consignments of less than 20 hatching eggs of poultry or less than 20 heads of poultry are moved to another Member State; (d) establishments keeping poultry from which consignments of less than 20 heads of poultry intended for purposes other than slaughter or consignments of less than 20 hatching eggs of poultry are moved to another Member State.’;

1 Operators of establishments keeping poultry and operators of hatcheries of poultry shall ensure that each hatching egg that is moved to another Member State is marked with the unique approval number of the establishment of origin of the hatching eggs.

2 Paragraph 1 shall not apply to: (a) operators of establishments keeping poultry from which consignments of less than 20 hatching eggs of poultry other than ratites are moved to another Member State; (b) operators of hatcheries from which consignments of less than 20 hatching eggs of poultry other than ratites are moved to another Member State.’;

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.