Identification and Registration

vit is the competent authority for I & R in Lower Saxony and Bremen

    • according to information delivered by local veterinary administration:
      • assign an unique id to a farm
      • put id and farm data in the the central data base HIT
    • inform the farmer about the id
    • issue access information (pin) to the farmer
    • supply of official eartags to registered cattle farmers
    • checking and processing of cattle birth notifications and issuing of a master data certificate / cattle passport
    • checking ans processing of replacement eartags orders
    • checking and processing of cattle movement and catlle death notifications
    • supply of official eartags (with farm id) to registered pig farmers
    • checking and processing of pig stock and movement notifications
    • supply of official eartags with and without transponders with animal id or farm id to registered sheep and goat farmers
    • checking and processing of sheep and goat stock and movement notifications
    • supply of official transponders with unqique ids to registered equid keepers
    • issueing equidae passports for non-registered equidae (equidae for breeding and production)
    • issueing of duplicate and replacement equid passports
    • processing of antibiotics apllication notifications of fattening cattle, pigs and poultry farmers