My reading of the at risk register is that the register is only
available for those who have evey animal registered with the breed
society. Those of us with unregistered sheep within their flocks will
not be covered.

Sheila and Dave
Trelawney Farm
Pensilva
Cornwall



-----Original Message-----
From: soaysheep@yahoogroups.com [mailto:soaysheep@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of gordon johnston
Sent: 03 August 2007 23:27
To: soaysheep@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [soaysheep] FMD UK Breeds at Risk Register




Subject: FMD UK Breeds at Risk Register

If you haven't done it, sign up now - it affords extra protection for
rare
breeds. Minumum numbers are 16 females and 1 male. It only takes a
couple of
minutes - see link at the bottom of the page.

Gordon.

FMD: UK Breeds at Risk Register

Article 15 of the European Union Council Directive 2003/85/EC on
community
measures for the control of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) places a
responsibility on member states to establish a list of holdings where
animals are kept for purposes related to the conservation of animals
that
are indispensable for the survival of that breed or in other words rare
breeds, so that they may benefit from any special measures that may
apply at
the time of an FMD outbreak.

Inclusion on the Breeds at Risk Register means that any special measures
prevailing in the event of an FMD outbreak to conserve rare breeds could
apply to the premises, but this does not guarantee that rare breeds on
the
premises would necessarily be spared. The measures would only apply to
rare
breed animals on the premises and breeds not considered to be rare would
be
treated with the normal procedures that come into force at the time.

Defra, Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department
(SEERAD),
Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) and Department of Agriculture and Rural
Development, Northern Ireland (DARDNI) in partnership with the Rare
Breeds
Survival Trust (RBST) and the British Pig Association (BPA) is compiling
such a list for the following domestic species:

* Cattle
* Goats
* Pigs
* Sheep

Registration is voluntary and free of charge, it is however, in the
owner's
or keeper's own interest to register the premises where rare breeds are
kept
to ensure that they can have the possibility of benefiting from any
special
measures that may apply or come into force for the conservation of rare
breeds in the event of a future FMD outbreak.

* For pigs an electronic registration form is available.
* For rare breeds other than pigs an electronic registration form is ava
ilable.

http://www.defra.
<http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/fmd/about/riskreg.htm>
gov.uk/animalh/diseases/fmd/about/riskreg.htm







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