S.L. 439.12 Art. 5Training and guidance for persons dealing with chickens.

(1) The competent authority shall ensure that keepers who are natural persons have received sufficient training in their tasks and that appropriate training courses are available.

(2) The training courses referred to in sub-regulation (1) shall focus on welfare aspects and cover in particular the matters listed in Schedule IV.

(3) The competent authority shall ensure that a system is established for the control and approval of training courses. The keeper of the chickens shall hold a certificate which is recognised by the competent authority attesting to the completion of such a training course or to having acquired experience equivalent to such training.

(4) The competent authority may recognise experience acquired before 30th June, 2010 as being equivalent to participation in such training courses and shall issue certificates attesting to such equivalence.

(5) The competent authority may provide that the requirements set out in sub-regulations (1) to (4) shall also apply to owners.

(6) The owner or keeper shall provide instructions and guidance on the relevant animal welfare requirements, including those concerning the methods of gathering practised in holdings, to persons employed or engaged by them to attend to chickens or to catch and load them.