You do not need to buy software to take part. A keeper can register animals, move them with a permit and request certificates directly from a phone — and a keeper who uses a vendor app gets the same single record underneath. Either way, there is one identity per animal and one keeper record that follows you.
One national ID for life
When an animal is first registered it receives a national ID that is allocated once and never reissued — even if it changes hands, is merged, or its physical tag is replaced. The tag can be lost; the identity cannot. That is what stops stolen stock being laundered through retagging.
Tags and find-or-create
- A physical tag (visual or electronic/RFID) is the everyday handle; the national ID is the permanent identity behind it.
- If two people tag the same beast, the registry converges them on the same national ID instead of creating two competing identities.
- Replacing a lost tag is an authority event: the new tag is recorded against the existing ID and confirmed; the old tag is retired.
Move with a permit
- Lodge a movement: where the animals are going, and which animals are in the consignment.
- The registry checks it against the veterinary zones — so a movement that would breach a disease-control boundary is caught.
- You receive a permit reference that travels with the consignment and can be checked at a roadblock or sale.
Request and verify a certificate
You request a certificate; the competent authority inspects, attests and signs it. Every certificate carries a QR code. A buyer, an abattoir or a border officer scans it, and the answer comes straight from the registry — free, with no login, and not dependent on whatever app produced the document.