Marking of eggs for hatching and their packaging
Article 3
1. Eggs for hatching, used for chick production, shall be marked individually. 2. The individual marking of eggs for hatching, used for chick production, shall be carried out at the producer establishment, which shall print its distinguishing number on the eggs. The letters and figures shall be indicated in indelible black ink at least 2 mm high and 1 mm wide. 3. Member States may authorise, by derogation, the marking of eggs for hatching in a different manner from that presented in paragraph 2, provided that it is in black, indelible, clearly visible, and at least 10 mm 2 in area. Such marking shall be carried out prior to insertion into the incubator, either at a producer establishment, or at a hatchery. Member States exercising this power shall inform the other Member States and the Commission thereof and shall communicate to them the provisions made to that end. 4. Eggs for hatching shall be transported in perfectly clean packs, containing only eggs for hatching of the same species, category and type of poultry, originating in one establishment, and bearing one of the markings listed in Annex II. 5. In order to comply with the provision in force in certain importer third countries, eggs for hatching intended for export and their packaging may bear particulars other than those provided for in this Regulation, provided that they are not likely to be confused with the latter and with those provided for in Article 121(d) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 and its implementing Regulations. 6. Packs or containers of any type in which these eggs are transported shall bear the distinguishing number of the producer establishment. 7. Only eggs for hatching marked in accordance with this Article may be transported or traded between Member States. 8. Eggs for hatching from third countries may be imported only if they bear, in type at least 3 mm high, the name of the country of origin and the printed words ‘à couver’, ‘broedei’, ‘rugeaeg’, ‘Bruteier’, ‘προς εκκόλαψιν’, ‘para incubar’, ‘hatching’, ‘cova’, ‘para incubação’, ‘haudottavaksi’, ‘för kläckning’, ‘líhnutí’, ‘haue’, ‘inkubācija’, ‘perinimas’, ‘keltetésre’, ‘tifqis’, ‘do wylęgu’, ‘valjenje’, ‘liahnutie’, ‘за люпене’, ‘incubare’. Their packaging must contain only eggs for hatching of the same species, category and type of poultry from the same country of origin and sender, and must bear at least the following particulars: (a) the information shown on the eggs; (b) the species of poultry from which the eggs come; (c) the sender's name or business name and address.