Derogations concerning the identification of certain equidae living under wild or semi-wild conditions
Article 13
1. By way of derogation from Article 12, the competent authority may decide that equidae constituting defined populations living under wild or semi-wild conditions in certain areas, to be defined by the competent authority, shall be identified by an identification document issued in accordance with Article 9 or Article 17(4) only when they are: (a) removed from such populations, excluding the transfer under official supervision from one defined population to another; or (b) brought into domestic use. 2. Member States intending to make use of the derogation provided for in paragraph 1 shall notify the Commission, with a reference to this Article, of the populations and the areas concerned which they have defined in accordance with paragraph 1 before making use of that derogation.