An animal movement notification was received from the person named on 29 January 2003 in respect of a movement that took place on 13 January 2003. The notification in question was returned with a query to the person named as the tag number supplied was not a valid tag number. To date, the person named has not supplied the correct tag number for this animal. As a result, this movement cannot be entered on the cattle movement monitoring system, CMMS.
The revised permit arrangements for notification of farm-to-farm movements of cattle, which were introduced on 15 December last, now require a CMMS certificate of compliance prior to movement. As part of these revised arrangements, the person named should now contact his local district veterinary office with the correct tag number for the animal in question to have this movement entered on CMMS.