LEGAL BASIS
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LEGAL BASIS FOR COMPANION/STRAY ANIMALS:
1. Law no. 02 / L-10 on Animal Welfare
2. Law no. 2004/21 The Veterinary Law
3. Law no. 03 / L-016 on Food
4. Law no. 03 / L-040 on Local Self-Government
5. Law no. 06 / L-113 on the Organization and Functioning of the State Administration and Independent Agencies
6. Administrative Instruction (MAFRD) -no.04 / 2017 on the Technical Conditions to be Completed by the Temporary Treatment Center for Stray
Animals – abolished
7. Administrative Instruction (MAFRD) – no.02 / 2018 on Identification and Registration of Companion Animals
8. Administrative Instruction 07/2006 on the Establishment of the Standing Committee on Animal Husbandry
9. Regulation no.03 / 2010 on the Organization of the Food and Veterinary Agency
10. Regulation GRK – No. 29/2013 On Supplementing and Amending Regulation no. 03/2010 on the Organization of the Food and Veterinary Agency.
11. Regulation (K.VU) 01. NO.87 / 15 on the Conditions of Keeping dogs and cats as well as the ways and actions in case of their abandonment or
loss
12. Regulation (K.DE) 01. NO.III.2 on the Conditions of Keeping dogs as well as the ways and actions in case of their abandonment or loss and the shelter of stray dogs
B
LEGAL BASIS FOR LIVESTOCK ANIMALS:
1. Law No. 2004/33 On Livestock
2. Law No. 2004/21 the Veterinary Law
3. Law no. 02 / L-10 on Animal Welfare
4. Administrative Instruction MA – NR 14/2007 – Production registration for determining the genetic value of breeding animals – repealed
5. Administrative Instruction MA-NR. 05/2007 – On determining the conditions of animal markets
6. Administrative Instruction NO.02 / 2009 – On the conditions of movement of non-commercial companion animals
7. Administrative Instruction no. 12/2012 – For the identification and registration of animals
8. Regulation (GRK) – No. 03/2015 on laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs
9. Regulation GRK no.17 / 2014 for the protection of animals kept for farming purposes
10. Regulation GRK no. 12/2014 on laying down minimum standards for calf protection
11. Administrative Instruction MA-NR. 31/2006 for the transport of animals
12. Administrative Instruction MA-NR. 24/2006 for humanly animal slaughter
C
LEGAL BASIS FOR WILD ANIMALS
1. Law no. 03 / L-233 – of Nature Protection
2. Administrative Instruction no. 01/2012 on the conditions of keeping, the manner of marking and identification of protected animals in captivity
3. Regulation (MESP) No. 21/2013 on the internal order of National Parks
4. Administrative Instruction no. 26/2012 on the cross-border movement and trade in wild protected species
5. Administrative Instruction no. 14/2013 on the manner of developing and implementing of the risk assessment from the introduction, reintroduction and cultivation of wild species
6. Administrative Instruction MESP-No. 15/2014 on prevention and compensation of damages caused by wild species of strictly protected animals
7. Administrative Instruction MESP-No. 12/2017 For Proclamation of Wild Species Protected and Strictly Protected
D
LEGAL BASIS FOR AQUATIC ANIMALS:
1. Law No. 02 / L-85 For Fisheries and Aquaculture
2. Law no. 02 / L-10 on Animal Welfare
3. Administrative Instruction MA-No. 24/2007 – On the Sportive-Recreative fishing means and equipment
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