| THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY --------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom – Happiness -------------- |
| No. 16/2004/PL-UBTVQH11 | Hanoi, March 24, 2004 |
ORDINANCE
ON LIVESTOCK BREEDS
Pursuant to the 1992 Constitution of Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which was amended and supplemented under Resolution No. 51/2001/QH10 of December 25, 2001 of the 10th session of the Xth National Assembly;
Pursuant to Resolution No. 21/2003/QH11 of November 26, 2003 of the 4th session of the XIth National Assembly on the 2004 law- and ordinance-making program;
This Ordinance prescribes livestock breeds.
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- Scope of regulation
This Ordinance prescribes the management and conservation of livestock gene sources; research into, selection, creation, assay, testing and recognition of, new livestock breeds; production and trading of livestock breeds; management of the quality of livestock breeds.
Article 2.- Subjects of application
This Ordinance applies to Vietnamese organizations and individuals, foreign organizations and individuals, that are engaged in the field of livestock breeds in the Vietnamese territory.
In cases where international agreements which Vietnam has signed or acceded to contain provisions different from those of this Ordinance, such international agreements shall apply.
Article 3.- Interpretation of terms
In this Ordinance, the terms below are construed as follows:
1. Livestock breed means a population of livestock of the same species and the same stock, having similar appearance and genetic structure, having been generated, consolidated and developed by human manipulations; a livestock breed must have a certain number of individuals for multiplication and inheritance of its characteristics by offspring generations.
Livestock breeds include cattle, poultry, bee, silkworm and aquatic animal breeds and their breeding products such as sperms, embryos, breeding eggs, larva and breeding genomes.
2. Purebred livestock breed means a breed stable in terms of genetics and productivity; identical in terms of genotype, appearance and disease resistance.
3. Prototypal breed stock means a stock of purebred domestic animals or a stock already selected, created or reared for production of grandparental stocks.
4. Grandparental breed stock means a stock of domestic animals multiplied from prototypal stock for production of parental stocks.
5. Parental breed stock means a stock of domestic animals multiplied from grandparental stock for production of commercial stocks.
6. Nucleus stock used in large-scale cattle breeding means the best stock, with a clear source and origin, reared and selected according to a certain process in order to obtain a high genetic advance, for the purpose of producing breeding stocks.
7. Breeding stock used in large-scale cattle breeding means the stock descended from nucleus stock for production of commercial breeds or selected for addition to nucleus stock.
8. A commercial breed means a stock of domestic animals descended from parental stock or breeding stock.
9. Fake breeds mean breeds inconsistent with labeled breed names.
10. Breed selection means the use of technical measures to select and keep as breeds individuals having favorable properties which satisfy human requirements.
