Paul Lawless (Mayo, Aontú)
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718. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide any formal documentation or statutory basis for the designation of an organisation (details supplied) as a national breeding programme operator; and to clarify the scope and legal authority of this designation. [65513/25]

Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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The European Communities (Trade in Bovine Breeding Animals, Their Semen, Ova and Embryos) Regulations 1996 (Statutory Instrument 112 of 1996)(‘the 1996 Regulations’) transposed the Commission Decision 86/130/EC.

The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) was granted approval under these 1996 Regulations as a body competent for the purposes set out in the Annex to the Decision. ICBF carries out the breeding components of the named organisation's activities.