In the Republic of Kazakhstan and on the territory of our district, an identification procedure for farm animals is carried out annually, the purpose and objectives of which are aimed at creating a database, strengthening control over the state of animal health, its movement, tracking situations, and is also a tool to ensure the effectiveness of preventive measures, quarantine and elimination of foci of acute infectious diseases, prevention of theft of animals. Agricultural animals located on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan are subject to identification.
The young of farm animals are identified no later than fourteen working days from the date of reaching the following age: calves, lambs, goats, camels – after seven days from the date of birth; foals, young ungulates – from the age of four months (with branding), after seven days from the date of birth (with chipping); Breeding piglets, piglets intended for further breeding and reproduction, and piglets that are kept in households of the population – after seven days from the date of birth.
The whole procedure of identification of farm animals is a public service. The state service is provided by veterinary organizations. To receive a public service, an individual or legal entity (hereinafter referred to as the service recipient) submits an application to the veterinary organization, or through the portal, in the form according to the appendix.
In case of damage or loss of products (means) for identification of farm animals (in case it is impossible to determine the individual number of an agricultural animal), the animal is isolated by the owner until the individual numbers of other farm animals are verified with veterinary passports and a database.
After the slaughter of farm animals at slaughter sites (slaughter sites), slaughterhouses and meat processing enterprises, as well as in case of animal death, veterinary passports and products (means) are transferred to veterinary organizations according to the inventory and destroyed.
If it is necessary to obtain an extract from the veterinary passport, the service recipient submits an application to the veterinary organization, or through the portal. The veterinarian of the veterinary organization considers the application within thirty minutes and issues an extract from the veterinary passport, or a reasoned refusal to provide a public service. The grounds for refusal to provide a public service are:
1) establishing the unreliability of the documents submitted by the service recipient for obtaining a veterinary passport, and (or) the data (information) contained therein;
2) non-compliance of the service recipient and (or) the submitted data and information necessary for the provision of public services with the requirements established by these Rules;
3) in relation to the service recipient, there is a court decision (verdict) that has entered into legal force on the prohibition of activities or certain types of activities that require obtaining a veterinary passport.
However, despite the seemingly simplicity of the identification procedure, in practice we have to face such facts as refusal to carry it out, incomplete provision of farm animals by type and quantity from the available livestock, etc. This fact is a violation of Article 25 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Veterinary Medicine", for violation of which an administrative fine is provided according to Part 3 of Article 406 Administrative Code "Failure to conduct or improper conduct of veterinary measures, as well as violation of the terms of their conduct" – for individuals in the amount of twenty–five, for officials, small businesses or non–profit organizations – in the amount of one hundred and twenty-five, for medium-sized businesses - in the amount of two hundred and fifty, for large businesses - in the amount of five hundred monthly calculation indices.
In this regard, we kindly ask the residents and heads of agricultural formations of our district to take seriously the procedure for identifying farm animals.
For more detailed information on the procedure for the identification of farm animals, you can contact the State Institution "Uzunkolskaya district Territorial Inspection of the Committee for Veterinary Control and Supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan" at the address: Uzunkol village, G. Musrepova str., 25. Tel.: 8(71444) 2-44-41, 2-15-60.