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Apply online for a CPH number for land or buildings you'll use to keep livestock, including those kept as pets, in England.
How to get a flock or herd mark for livestock (including those kept as pets) and keep your registered details up to date.
What cattle keepers must record and report when they move cattle, bison or buffalo and the deadlines.
Get a breed code to register a cattle, bison or buffalo birth.
What livestock keepers must do when they intend to use someone else's land or buildings temporarily.
Who to contact if you keep livestock (including as pets) when your registered details change.
What a cattle movement is, what you need to do before you move cattle, and when you must not move cattle.
What you must record in your holding register (also known as a herd register or farm records), when you must do this and what you can use for your records.
How to apply for, correct or replace a cattle passport and what to do if you miss the application deadline or it has not arrived.
Cattle keepers must tag a newborn calf, add its details to their holding register and register its birth within legal deadlines.
How to order official cattle ear tags, what to do if your animal is untagged, its tags have been damaged or it has been tagged incorrectly.
What cattle keepers must do with the barcode labels sent by the British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS) and how to get more if you run out.
What you need to do when you send cattle, bison or buffalo to a slaughterhouse.
Cattle owners and keepers must follow the conditions of this licence when they move their animals.
Rules and standards for running an approved breeding programme and keeping a breed book or register of purebred animals, hybrid pigs and germinal products.
You must get a movement licence for animals that have been refused a passport, animals born before 1 August 1996 and unregistered calves.
Farm software companies that have successfully passed testing for the Cattle Tracing Service (CTS) Web Services.
Inspectors may visit your holding to check that you’re following the rules for cattle, bison and buffalo identification and record keeping.
What an agent must do to communicate with the Cattle Tracing System on behalf of a keeper of cattle, bison or buffalo.
What happens when Rural Payments Agency field officers visit your holding, including checks on tagging, holding registers and movement records.
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