Abstract
The French cattle tracing system results from a long evolution, which began in the mid sixties for cattle selection purposes. In addition to its main objective which is cattle tracing and sanitary uses, the system is widely used by many breeder organisations for very different uses: parentage recording, performance recording, herd book keeping, breeding value calculation and animal marketing.
The organisation of this system consists on two levels: the breeder organisations level and the level of the national identification database, which is run by the Ministry of Agriculture.
The Ministry of Agriculture commits some of the breeder organisations to perform some of the tracing operations: ordering the official eartags, data collection and animal passport printing. The system is designed in order to allow the breeders to provide data only once, independently of their future utilisation as well as to facilitate access to data for other utilisation than cattle tracing. Consequently, the official animal passport gives the official parentage, and electronic data interchange between the information systems of the breeder organisations allows easy access to data of the official tracing system. At the entry of slaughterhouses, the passport corresponding to the identification number of the animal on the eartags is recorded in the local database with the unique number of slaughtering and sent to the national identification database. This number of slaughtering follows all the parts of the carcass, till the pieces of meat.
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 911/2004 of 29 April 2004 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards eartags, passports and holding registers (Text with EEA relevance)
Council Directive 92/102/EEC of 27 November 1992 on the identification and registration of animals
Council Directive 97/12/EC of 17 March 1997 amending and updating Directive 64/432/EEC on health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine
Council Directive 98/99/EC of 14 December 1998 amending Directive 97/12/EC amending and updating Directive 64/432/EEC on health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine
French decree No 2006–376 of 23 March 2006 on identification of bovine animals and modifying rural code
French decree No 98–764 of 28 August 1998 on identification of bovine animals
French departmental order of 10 February 2000 creating the national database of identification and traceability of bovine animals and their products
French departmental order of 9 May 2006 on identification of bovine animals modalities
Norm ISO 11784: 1996 Radio frequency identification of animals – Code structure
Norm ISO 11785: 1996 Radio frequency identification of animals – Technical concept
Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 July 2000 establishing a system for the identification and registration of bovine animals and regarding the labelling of beef and beef products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 820/97
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Marguin, L., Balvay, B. (2009). TRACEABILITY OF BEEF PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY IN FRANCE. In: Zhao, C., Li, D. (eds) Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture II, Volume 3. CCTA 2008. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 295. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0213-9_29
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