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Export Control (Meat and Meat Products) Rules 2021
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#### 3‑5 Requirements for feedlots
(1) The requirements for a feedlot are as follows:
(a) the feedlot has a property identification code;
(b) if bovine animals that are to be slaughtered to derive EU export meat are held in the feedlot—none of those animals has been, or is to be, treated with an HGP;
(c) there is a management system in place for the EU export meat production operations for which the feedlot is to be accredited.
(2) The management system required by paragraph (1)(c) must:
(a) ensure that all bovine animals held in the feedlot can be traced and identified; and
(b) ensure that all bovine animals held in the feedlot that are to be slaughtered to derive EU export meat are kept separate at all times from other animals held in the feedlot; and
(c) ensure that each bovine animal transferred to the feedlot that is to be slaughtered to derive EU export meat:
(i) has an animal identification tag attached; and
(ii) is accompanied by an original EU vendor declaration for the animal; and
(iii) can be traced to the accredited property from where the animal was transferred; and
(d) set out the manner in which the conditions of accreditation of the feedlot for export operations in relation to prescribed meat or meat products will be met.
> Note 1: For animal identification tag, see section 1‑5.
> Note 2: An EU vendor declaration may be in any form that is approved by the Secretary (see the definition of EU vendor declaration in section 1‑5).
> Note 3: It is a condition of accreditation that the management system must be implemented (see section 3‑18).