Decision 1996/463 - 96/463/EC: Council Decision of 23 July 1996 designating the reference body responsible for collaborating in rendering uniform the testing methods and the assessment of the results for pure-bred breeding animals of the bovine species

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  2. Key information
  3. Key dates
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  5. Original proposal
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Current status

This decision was in effect from July 31, 1996 until October 31, 2018.

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Key information

official title

96/463/EC: Council Decision of 23 July 1996 designating the reference body responsible for collaborating in rendering uniform the testing methods and the assessment of the results for pure-bred breeding animals of the bovine species
 
Legal instrument Decision
Number legal act Decision 1996/463
Original proposal COM(1995)733 EN
CELEX number i 31996D0463

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Key dates

Document 23-07-1996
Publication in Official Journal 02-08-1996; Special edition in Czech: Chapter 03 Volume 019,Special edition in Polish: Chapter 03 Volume 019,Special edition in Lithuanian: Chapter 03 Volume 019,Special edition in Romanian: Chapter 03 Volume 019,Special edition in Latvian: Chapter 03 Volume 019,Special edition in Bulgarian: Chapter 03 Volume 019,OJ L 192, 2.8.1996,Special edition in Hungarian: Chapter 03 Volume 019,Special edition in Slovak: Chapter 03 Volume 019,Special edition in Croatian: Chapter 03 Volume 029,Special edition in Slovenian: Chapter 03 Volume 019,Special edition in Maltese: Chapter 03 Volume 019,Special edition in Estonian: Chapter 03 Volume 019
Effect 31-07-1996; Entry into force Date notif.
End of validity 31-10-2018; Repealed by 32016R1012
Notification 31-07-1996

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Legislative text

2.8.1996   

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 192/19
 

COUNCIL DECISION

of 23 July 1996

designating the reference body responsible for collaborating in rendering uniform the testing methods and the assessment of the results for pure-bred breeding animals of the bovine species

(96/463/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to Council Directive 87/328/EEC of 18 June 1987 on the acceptance for breeding purposes of pure-bred breeding animals of the bovine species (1), and in particular Article 5 thereof,

Whereas, in order to render uniform the testing methods and the assessment of the results when pure-bred breeding animals of the bovine species are accepted for breeding purposes, a reference body should be designated;

Whereas the powers and duties of that body should be defined;

Whereas, in the light of experience gained, the Interbull Centre should be designated as the reference body responsible for collaborating in rendering uniform the testing methods and the assessment of the results for pure-bred breeding animals of the bovine species,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

  • 1. 
    The body referred to in Annex I shall be designated as the reference body responsible for collaborating in rendering uniform the testing methods and the assessment of the results for pure-bred breeding animals of the bovine species.
  • 2. 
    The duties of the body designated in paragraph 1 shall be as set out in Annex II.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 23 July 1996.

For the Council

The President

  • I. 
    YATES
 
 

ANNEX I

Name of the body:

 

INTERBULL Centre

Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Box: 7023;

S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden.
 

ANNEX II

The duties of the body designated in Article 1 (1) of the Decision are as follows:

 

1.

to be the documentation and information centre for the methods of testing and assessing the genetic value of pure-bred breeding animals of the bovine species for the Member States of the European Union as laid down in Decision 86/130/EEC (1). This duty will be accomplished by:

 

—

regularly receiving the results of genetic assessments and the data on which they were based,
 

—

comparing the various methods of testing and assessing the genetic value of pure-bred breeding animals of the bovine species;
 

2.

at the request of the Member States of the Commission:

 

(a)

to provide assistance in order to contribute to the harmonization of the various methods of testing and assessing the genetic value of pure-bred breeding animals of the bovine species, in particular by recommending the calculation methods to be used;
 

(b)

to provide assistance in order to permit the comparison of the results of the methods of testing and assessing the genetic value of animals in the various Member States, in particular by:

 

—

developing control protocols, to enable assessments to be made in the various Member States so as to improve the relevance of results and the effectiveness of selection programmes,
 

—

carrying out an international assessment of livestock on the basis of the genetic assessments made in the various Member States,
 

—

disseminating the individual results of the international assessments,
 

—

publishing the conversion formulae and all related genetic work;
 

(c)

to help the bodies referred to in point I of...


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