Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Dr. Paul Corkery:

What that means is that someone is obliged to record the dispensing. As a result, it also applies to licensed merchants. It applies to anybody who needs to record on the system that he or she has dispensed a product. This means it applies to all retailers equally. They must all put the products up. We are not saying that they must put the information up immediately after they sell a product. We are giving them a period during which they can put it up, which I think is standard practice across many systems. Let us say they dispensed a product just before closing time on a Friday evening. We do not expect that information to be on our database at that moment. As I understand it, we are giving them five days.