Agriculture & Food

#AGRT2604599AArtificial Insemination Rules for Public Breeding in Cattle, Sheep, Goats and Pigs

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

The order sets traceability and declaration rules for artificial insemination carried out under public breeding arrangements for cattle, sheep, goats and pigs. Semen movements must stay within the authorized channels, and businesses or farmers using semen must keep updated records showing doses received, used or destroyed, including where each dose came from. Companies that place semen for public breeding must file a prior declaration with the relevant technical institute: Institut de l’élevage for ruminants and Institut du porc for pigs. Once the file is complete, the institute assigns zootechnical registration numbers and informs the company of traceability duties and separate billing rules for semen placement services.

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Key Changes

  • Limits semen movements to authorized channels for public breeding artificial insemination
  • Requires companies and farmers to keep detailed inventories of semen doses received, used or destroyed
  • Sets the prior declaration process and registration system for semen placement companies

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Limit movements of semen used for public breeding artificial insemination to the movements authorized under Article R. 653-50 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code.

semen placement companiesfarmers practicing artificial insemination within their own herd
prohibition
high

Keep an up-to-date inventory of semen doses received, placed, or destroyed, identifying the origin of each dose.

semen placement companies
ongoing
operational
high

For each breeding site, keep an up-to-date inventory of semen doses received, placed, or destroyed, identifying the origin of each dose and distinguishing public-breeding doses from private-breeding doses.

farmers practicing artificial insemination within their own herd
ongoing
operational
high

Comply with germinal product traceability requirements for bovine, porcine, ovine, and caprine animals under Article 10 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/686.

semen placement companiesfarmers practicing artificial insemination within their own herd
ongoing
operational
critical

Submit a prior declaration before practicing public-breeding artificial insemination as a semen placement company.

semen placement companies
before practicing public-breeding artificial insemination
licensing

Affected Parties

Semen placement companiesCattle, sheep, goat and pig farmers+2 more…

Tags

artificial insemination,livestock breeding,semen traceability