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Article 38Exclusion from and delay of the slaughter of an equine animal for human consumption#
1.Equine animals shall be deemed to be intended for slaughter for human consumption unless they are irreversibly excluded from slaughter for human consumption by the completing and signing of the relevant entry in Part II of Section II of the model identification document for equine animals set out in Part 1 of Annex II by either:
(a)the veterinarian responsible prior to a treatment in accordance with Article 39(2) of this Regulation; or
(b)the competent authority:
(i)in the case of issuing a new single lifetime identification document in accordance with Article 21(3) for an equine animal for which the previous exclusion from slaughter for human consumption was recorded either in the single lifetime identification document or in the computer database;
(ii)in the case of issuing a duplicate single lifetime identification document in accordance with Article 25 or a replacement single lifetime identification document in accordance with Article 26;
(iii)in the case of equine animals which entered the Union from a third country or territory not listed for equine animals in the Annex to Commission Decision 2011/163/EU, or for which the public health attestation in point II.6 of the official certificate for entry into the Union of equine animals not intended for slaughter (MODEL ‘EQUI-X’) accompanying the equine animal to the border laid down in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/403 was not certified for other reasons.
2.The slaughter of a food-producing equine animal shall be delayed for a period of at least six months:
(a)by the veterinarian responsible prior to a treatment with a medicinal product containing a substance included in the list of substances set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1950/2006 and documented in Part III of Section II of the model identification document for equine animals set out in Part 1 of Annex II to this Regulation;
(b)by way of derogation from paragraph 1(b)(ii), and by decision of the competent authority, documented in Part V of Section II of the model identification document for equine animals set out in Part 1 of Annex II to this Regulation, in the event of the issuing of a duplicate identification document within a period of 30 days from the date of the declared and substantiated loss of the single lifetime identification document, where the operator can satisfactorily substantiate that the status of the equine animal as intended for slaughter for human consumption has not been compromised by any medicinal treatment.
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