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Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 of 17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC · European Union

The eartags and the other means of identification must contain the following characters: the first characters identify the Member State of the holding where the animal was first identified. For this purpose two-letter or three-digit country codes(1) are to be used in accordance with ISO 3166, the country code is followed by an individual one of no more than 13 digits. In addition to the information provided for in this paragraph, the competent authorities of the Member States may authorise a bar code and the addition of supplementary information by the keeper, provided that the legibility of the identification number is not affected.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-09 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.