Implementing Regulations of The Agriculture Law

The Ministry or its designee may, in the context of preserving local animal breeds, carry out any of the following procedures: 1. Imposing restrictions on sale, purchase, donation, transfer, slaughter, circulation, or disposition in any manner whatsoever of any type of animal resources and products or waste, as required by the Ministry; 2. Prohibiting the importing or exporting of any living or dead animal, its products or waste in the event that its exportation, importation, circulation or transfer could endanger animal resources in the Kingdom; 3. Laying down the necessary controls to regulate the transfer of animal resources within and into the Kingdom; it may, in this respect, cooperate with the relevant government and private agencies; 4. Regulating the importing or exporting of semen, fertilized eggs, frozen embryos or genetic material of any type of animal resources; 5. Conducting tests to determine the lineage and genetic code of animal species; preserving, registering, documenting, mainstreaming, improving and developing genetic resources of local animal breeds; and setting controls therefor; 6. Communicating with the relevant agencies inside and outside the Ministry to direct and support research on animal production and animal health and to improve production systems in the Kingdom; 7. Setting principles and controls for organizing and licensing public exhibitions, competitions, or animal shows for commercial or any other purposes; 8. Setting conditions and standards for mandatory animal welfare practices for all types of animals, as per their nature and types, and enabling NGOs operating in the same field to contribute to this issue; and 9. Drawing up a list of animal diseases to be reported to the Ministry and methods of 48| Implementing Regulations of the Agriculture Law dealing therewith and updating the same pursuant to the epidemiological situation of animal diseases in the Kingdom.