Pre-issued certificates under Article 8(3) of Regulation (EC) No 338/97
Article 63
1. For the purposes of Article 8(3)(d) of Regulation (EC) No 338/97, a Member State may make pre-issued certificates available to breeders approved for that purpose by a management authority, provided that they maintain breeding records and that they produce those records, on request, to the competent management authority. Such certificates shall, in box 20, include the following statement: ‘Certificate only valid for the following taxon/taxa: …’ 2. For the purposes of Article 8(3)(d) and (h) of Regulation (EC) No 338/97, a Member State may make pre-issued certificates available to persons who have been approved by a management authority to sell on the basis of such certificates dead captive-bred specimens and/or small numbers of dead specimens legally taken from the wild within the Community, provided that any such person meets the following requirements: (a) he maintains a record, which is produced on request to the competent management authority and which contains details of specimens/species sold, the cause of death if known, the persons from whom specimens were acquired and the persons to whom they were sold; (b) he submits an annual report to the competent management authority which contains details of sales during that year, the type and number of specimens, the species concerned and how the specimens were acquired.