The Ministry of Agriculture made a proposal to label pets different ways: tattoo, tag, chip.
A bill on mandatory identification of domestic animals will soon be submitted to the State Duma for consideration: all of them must be marked. It can be a tattoo, a tag or a chip - the owner's choice.
The service must be provided free of charge. Registration will be carried out by authorized persons of bodies and institutions included in the State Veterinary Service system. Information about marked pets will be sent to the Federal State Information System in the field of veterinary medicine.
Registration of animals will make it easier to find them in case of loss, and a unified database will make the work of veterinarians easier. It is assumed that identification marks will be placed on cats, dogs, small and large livestock, fur-bearing animals, bees, fish and “other aquatic animals”, as well as poultry, pigs, camels, deer, horses, donkeys, mules and hinnies. .
Regulations establishing mandatory registration and identification of domestic animals were adopted back in 2015 as part of the law “On Veterinary Medicine”, but there are still no by-laws. The document is currently being finalized, and the initiator of the bill, the Ministry of Agriculture, promises to submit the final version for consideration to the State Duma by the end of 2019.
Now the list includes both pets living in apartments and farm animals. The latter probably includes the high-value farm-raised fish mentioned in the document: it is unlikely that every aquarium zebrafish, guppie or barb can be labeled. "Poultry" includes chickens, but not parrots or canaries. And finally, rodents and reptiles, popular for breeding in apartments, are not mentioned.
The issue of financing also remains unclear. All points of the law “On Veterinary Medicine” that relate to the commercial sphere, that is, farm animals, are already in effect: for example, it is impossible to sell pork without labeling today. In Bashkiria in mandatory began marking all farm animals after the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. In the republic, where there are large horse populations, they are eagerly awaiting a law that will oblige all horses to be marked: now it can be difficult to find the owner of an animal that was the culprit of a car accident.
Meanwhile, approximately half of Russians have pets (about 35% have cats, 21% have dogs), and it is not clear who will mark so many representatives of the fauna for free. To this should be added stray animals, the marking of which
The authorities of St. Petersburg came out in support of the initiative of Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, who instructed the government to create by 2018 unified system identification of domestic and farm animals.
I think this is a positive decision. Animal identification must be mandatory. Failure to comply with this procedure will result in administrative liability. Identification still exists, but it is not mandatory - it is voluntary, including for urban animals, which is most relevant in St. Petersburg. Every year, more than one hundred thousand domestic dogs are brought in for vaccination against rabies. Animals that come for this procedure already have a chip or are chipped before vaccination,” Yuri Andreev, head of the St. Petersburg veterinary department, told Life.
According to him, there is already a general database where you can find an animal by chip number.
There have already been many cases when lost dogs were returned to their owners through information on this database. But this is just one of the points. There are quite a lot of situations when it is necessary to file a claim against the owner of an animal, and through identification you can get to the violator. This includes the case if the owner abandons the dog and throws it out into the street. There are no difficulties other than organizing and working with animal owners, who do not always agree to such a procedure. But if liability is introduced, they will not have the opportunity to refuse,” noted the head of the St. Petersburg veterinary department.Earlier in the press it was reported that Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich instructed the government to create a unified system for identifying domestic and farm animals by 2018. The mandatory identification list will include dogs and cats, bees and fish, horses and cattle, deer, camels, pigs, rabbits, fur-bearing animals and poultry. The roadmap for the implementation of identification must be developed before February 15, 2017.
According to the Izvestia newspaper, it is assumed that animals in Russia will receive unique 15-digit identification numbers (UIN), and their owners will have to provide them with chips, a tattoo or a brand with a UIN. In addition, in the specially created federal state information system information will be stored about the life activity of the animal (ancestors, descendants and productivity of the animal, its type, breed, sex, color, appearance, date of birth (import), place of birth, movements of the animal, etc.).
According to the draft order of the Ministry of Agriculture, it will be possible to mark both one animal and a group (for example, in the case of bees). Initial registration will need to be carried out in the first three months after the birth of the animal or its import into Russia. The system is planned to be fully introduced by the beginning of 2019.
In Russia, they propose to mark pets to make it easier for owners to find their pet if it gets lost. The corresponding bill will be submitted to the .
According to the document, a system of official registration and identification of domestic animals will be created. The identification mark will be placed on cats, dogs, small and large livestock, fur-bearing animals, bees, fish and “other aquatic animals,” as well as poultry, pigs, camels, deer, horses, donkeys, mules and hinnies.
At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture came up with a proposal to mark pets in different ways: tattoo, tag, chip. Marking is the application, attachment or insertion of a visual means of identification into the body of an animal. There is also a mixed type of identification, which is a combination of visual and electronic media. For example, the chipping procedure is the most expensive of the above.
The choice of a specific marking method is up to the pet owner. Registration will be free.
“We also demand that the procedure be free. So that the grandmother in the village, who keeps 15 cats, brings them, and they all undergo free registration.
How she will label them is another question,” the head of the State Duma Committee on Ecology and Protection told the Izvestia newspaper. environment.
Animal registration will be carried out by authorized persons of bodies and institutions included in the State Veterinary Service system, and certified specialists. Information about marked pets will also be sent to the Federal State Information System in the field of veterinary medicine.
Marking is necessary not only so that a lost pet can be quickly found and returned to its owner. As Burmatov noted, many laws relating to pets simply cannot work without mandatory identification. This concerns the law on municipal shelters and amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses already introduced in the State Duma to punish citizens for leaving animals on the street.
The parliamentarian sent a request to the Ministry of Agriculture asking what stage the development of the bill is at.
“The new version of the law will be introduced within a month and a half, that is, by the end of this year,” he said, citing the department’s official response.
The deputy recalled that the deadline for the adoption of the law has been regularly postponed since 2015, and expressed hope that this time the ministry will bring the bill to the lower house of parliament. In 2015, within the framework of the Law “On Veterinary Medicine”, regulations were adopted establishing mandatory registration and identification of domestic animals, but by-laws have not yet been adopted. Because of this, the pet identification system does not work in practice.
The reason for the delay may be the lack of a commercial component. As the parliamentarian emphasized, all points of the law that relate to the commercial sphere - that is, farm animals - are already in effect: for example, it is impossible to sell pork without labeling today.
In turn, the Ministry of Agriculture reported that the bill has already been sent to a government commission, after which it will be submitted to the State Duma.
Some regions decided not to wait for the law to be adopted at the federal level and began microchipping pets themselves.
In Bashkiria, this began to be done in 2017 after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was recorded in the republic. As of November of this year, more than 95% of farm animals have already been identified in the region. After the animal is marked, it is assigned a unique number of 11 letters and numbers, which is registered in a unified electronic database.
Authorities note that such a measure will not only help find lost livestock, but will also prevent the illegal import of animals, and also minimize the spread of rabies and other diseases among stray animals. In addition, in the republic, authorities are often faced with the need to find the owner of an animal that caused a car accident. The fact is that the region has one of the largest horse populations in the country. Every year people die in horse accidents.
On November 22, in the State Assembly of Bashkiria, parliamentarians proposed extending the region’s positive experience in identifying farm animals throughout Russia.
The authorities of the Murmansk region came up with a similar initiative - in the last case, the regional parliament sent an appeal with a request to speed up the adoption of the federal law.
The bill on this matter has been sent for consideration to the Government Commission for Administrative Reform, the Ministry of Agriculture told RG. It is assumed that labeling will be mandatory, but this is still at the discussion stage. “It’s too early to say in what form this will be implemented,” the department clarified.
Marking is the application, attachment or introduction into the body of an animal of visual and other means of identification. The marking assigns the animal an individual registration number, which can be used to verify any farm or domestic animal, as well as a group object. For example, a flock of geese, chickens, ducks, a beehive with a bee family, or a fish tank.
The introduction of labeling is necessary for veterinary and food safety, experts say. “Current legislation does not allow tracking of goods controlled by the state veterinary service, which makes it impossible to quickly identify the source of the spread of diseases, including those common to humans and animals. A unified information system in the field of veterinary medicine is necessary, and this is provided for in the bill,” the bill clarified. Ministry of Agriculture.
In addition, marking is important for dogs and cats in case they go missing. The tagging procedure is common in many countries, it is painless for animals, and a chip containing data about the name and address of the owner will help return the animal home. In addition, the chips contain information about the vaccination of animals, which is important when transporting them to another country.
After the adoption of the law, will be developed veterinary rules marking and recording of animals. Based on them, the procedure and timing of the procedure, cases of group marking and means of identification will be established.
So far, the labeling is expected to affect cats and dogs, small and large livestock, fur-bearing animals, bees, fish and “other aquatic animals,” as well as poultry, pigs, camels, deer, horses, donkeys and mules.
It is not yet known at whose expense the marking will be carried out. The Ministry of Agriculture reported that entering data into the system and registering animals will be free for their owners. But, regarding the marking procedure itself, the question remains open. By expert assessments, the wholesale cost of plastic tags ranges from 12 to 18 rubles per unit, and the cost of the service for installing a chip or one tag ranges from 50 to 70 rubles.
According to experts, Russia is the only country in the EurAsEC that has not yet begun marking and registering animals at the national level. At the same time, the country is setting ambitious goals to expand the export of meat products. According to experts, Rosselkhoznadzor could act as the operator of the labeling system.
Animals in Russia will soon receive unique identification numbers (UIN). From January 2018, Russian farmers and pet owners will have to provide them with chips, a tattoo or a brand with a UIN. Information about the animal’s life will be linked to it in a specially created federal state information system (FSIS). According to the instructions of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich (Izvestia has a copy), by February 15, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance must develop a “road map” for the implementation of identification.
As a result of a meeting with Arkady Dvorkovich at the end of last year, an order was issued to create a “road map” for the implementation of an animal identification system in Russia. The Ministry of Agriculture, together with the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance, was appointed responsible.
The press service of the Ministry of Agriculture noted that the order was given on the basis of the departmental order “On approval of the List of animal species subject to identification and registration.” According to the document, horses, cattle, deer, camels, poultry, dogs and cats, pigs, rabbits, fur-bearing animals, bees and fish are subject to identification. An exception is made for wild animals in a state of natural freedom, including natural resources continental shelf and exclusive economic zone of Russia.
Veterinary rules for the identification and registration of animals are currently being agreed upon, noted the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture. - The implementation of these measures will be entrusted to the regions.
According to the draft order of the Ministry of Agriculture, it will be possible to mark both one animal and a group. For example, in the case of bees, the entire apiary at once. The animal will be assigned a unique 15-digit alphanumeric identifier. The first two digits are capital letters RU, indicating that the animals are registered in Russia; the third category is a number indicating that we are talking about individual identification, group identification, or both at once. Fourth sign - capital letter: F - if the animal is raised for food or medical products; R - for pets, etc.
The initial registration of the animal must be carried out in the first three months after the birth of the animal or its import into Russia. The FSIS will store information about the unique number of the animal, the unique number of the marking means, the type and characteristics of the marking means, the ancestors, descendants and productivity of the animal, its type, breed, sex, color, appearance, date of birth (import), place birth, about the movements of the animal, its diseases, malformations, genetic defects, about the results diagnostic studies, veterinary treatments, applied veterinary drugs, about the owners of the animal and other information.
It is allowed to use any convenient means of marking. These can be visual (tag, tattoo, brand, ring, collar), electronic (we are talking about the implantation of chips containing information), mixed (a combination of visual and electronic) and other means of marking.
The labeling process will take place in two stages. From January 1, 2018, the order will come into force for some animals (including horses, donkeys, mules, cattle cattle, deer, camels and pigs), and from the beginning of 2019 - for small livestock (sheep and goats), dogs and cats, poultry, fur-bearing animals and rabbits, bees, fish and other aquatic animals. The draft does not indicate whether animals born before the order takes effect must be marked.
According to the head Russian Association Internet of Things Andrei Kolesnikov, if an animal is raised for slaughter, then data about it should also be available to meat buyers. It is clear that the chip itself will not reach the counter, but a QR code must be generated for buyers by scanning it mobile phone, you can see information about the animal. For example, time of slaughter, use of antibiotics, etc.
This order may be relevant for business; farms are not so numerous,” said German Klimenko, Advisor to the President of Russia on Internet Development. “But identifying animals will add more work to them.” Therefore, it would make sense to first estimate the costs of implementing accounting and data transfer to the data processing center of the Ministry of Agriculture. The attempt to introduce the system in the proposed form among the population seems untimely to me. If in cities it is at least somehow possible to imagine such accounting, then it is quite difficult to imagine how it will be implemented in villages.
