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Article 40Obligations of the veterinarians in relation to documentation of the status of equine animals as intended for or excluded from slaughter for human consumption in temporary documents#
1.Where an indication concerning an equine animal identified by a temporary identification document requires a treatment with a veterinary medicinal product authorised in accordance with Article 8(4) of Regulation (EU) 2019/6, or a medicinal product applied in accordance with Article 112(4) thereof, or containing a substance included in the list of substances set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1950/2006, the veterinarian responsible shall, prior to the administration of the medicinal product:
(a)verify the identification of the equine animal based on the information provided in the temporary identification document;
(b)where access to the computer database is granted, check the status as intended for or excluded from slaughter for human consumption in the temporary identification document and in the computer database;
(c)enter, where the equine animal is not already excluded from slaughter for human consumption, the required information in the temporary identification document in the form referred to in Article 24(2) in order to either:
(i)exclude the equine animal permanently from slaughter for human consumption before administering a medicinal product applied in accordance with Article 112(4) of Regulation (EU) 2019/6; or
(ii)record the date of the last administration of the medicinal products and the essential substances incorporated in the medicinal product before administering a medicinal product containing a substance included in the list of substances set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1950/2006.
2.After the measures provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article have been completed, the veterinarian responsible shall:
(a)provide the amended temporary document to the operator of the equine animal;
(b)submit without delay, and not later than seven days from the date of its completion, a copy of the amended temporary identification document to the competent authority to which the single lifetime identification document was surrendered in accordance with Article 61(2) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2035 in order for that competent authority to adapt the single lifetime identification document and to record the information referred to in paragraph 1(c)(i) or (ii) of this Article in the computer database.
3.Paragraph 2(b) of this Article shall not apply where the veterinarian responsible has been granted direct access to the computer database to enter information details concerning the exclusion of the equine animal from having the status of an animal intended slaughter for human consumption or concerning the fact that the animals shall not be slaughtered for a period of six months from the date of administration of the medicinal product.
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