• In 2010/2011, critical damage worth around KRW 3 trillion occurred from malicious livestock diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease and highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)
• To ensure efficient preventive control and to improve the livestock industry, breeding farms of a certain scale or greater shall seek permit or register at the local government by fulfilling facilities, devices and completing training
• Provided the legal basis for the livestock industry permission system with the revision and notification of the Livestock Industry Act on February 22, 2012 (enforced from February 23, 2013)

• Targets of Livestock Industry Permit (Article 13 of Enforcement Decree of the Livestock Industry Act)
  • Breeding stock industry, hatchery industry and sperm, etc. processing industry shall enforce from February 23, 2013, irrelevant of the size, and livestock breeding industry shall phase in by size

• Targets of Livestock Breeding Industry Registration (12 livestock kinds) (Paragraph 2, Article 22 of the Livestock Industry Act)
  • Livestock breeding industry not included in the permit (cows, pigs, chickens and ducks) and breeding industry of sheep, goats, deers, geese, turkeys, quails, ostrich, and pheasants
• Livestock breeding industry excluded from registration target (Article 14-3 of the Enforcement Decree of the Livestock Industry Act, and Article 27-4 of the Enforcement Rule of the same act)
  • Livestock breeding industry of chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, quails, ostrich and pheasant with land area of livestock breeding facility below 10㎡
  • Livestock breeding industry of horses, mules, donkeys, rabbits, dogs, honeybees, badgers, ornamental birds (15 kinds*), and earthworms
    * Refer to MAFRA notification No. 2015-100 (Other animals defined as domestic animals)

• Facilities & Devices: Breeding, disinfecting and disease controlling facilities, etc. according to laws
• Proper Breeding Area

* Increasing the proper breeding area of cage-bred layer chickens to 0.075㎡/head

• Location Standards: New restrictions for permit include within 30m from local roads and within 500m from livestock related facilities (slaughterhouses, feed factories, fuel traps and breeding stock sites, etc.)
  • By the ordinance of local government, the distance limit may be increased or decreased within 1/2
• Training Requirements: Targets of livestock industry permit, targets of livestock breeding industry registration and livestock traders shall complete education course set by the law

• Breeding facilities holding livestock shall have a well-ventilated structure and ventilation facilities. However, fences shall be installed if livestock such as deers and sheep are bred without breeding facilities.
  * Disinfection facility standards to be supplemented