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EU bovine animal identification code (ear tag number)

ID eu_bovine_id

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Unique code carried by the two ear tags or the electronic identifier of a kept bovine animal in the European Union under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/520. It is the country code of the Member State where the animal was first tagged, as ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 letters (EL for Greece, XI for Northern Ireland) or three digits, followed by an individual code of at most 12 digits. Ear tags often print the digits in groups. Older alphanumeric codes of some countries are not covered.

Categories
Agriculture, livestock and food
Countries
European Union
Languages
Common to most languages
Quality
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Regular expression

^(?:[A-Z]{2}|\d{3}) ?(?:\d ?){0,11}\d$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
UK 555555 3 00002Illustration of a UK ear tag number from ScotEID
UK555555200001Illustration of a UK ear tag number from ScotEID, without spaces
DE0123456789012 invalidThe individual code has 13 digits

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