Without prejudice to Article 25, a specimen of an animal species shall only be considered to be born and bred in captivity when a competent scientific authority of the Member State concerned is satisfied that: (a) it is, or is derived from,
the offspring, born or otherwise produced in a controlled environment, i.e. an environment that is intensively manipulated by man, which may include artificial housing, waste removal, health care, protection from predators and artificially
supplied food, for the purpose of producing specimens of the species in question and that has boundaries designed to prevent animals, eggs or gametes of the species from entering or leaving the controlled environment, either of parents that
mated or otherwise transferred gametes in a controlled environment, if reproduction is sexual, or of parents that were in a controlled environment when development of the offspring began, if reproduction is asexual; (b) the parental
breeding stock was established in accordance with the legal provisions applicable to it at the time of acquisition and in a manner not detrimental to the survival of the species concerned in the wild; (c) the parental breeding stock is
maintained without augmentation from the wild, except for the occasional addition of animals, eggs or gametes from wild populations to prevent deleterious inbreeding, with the magnitude of such addition determined by the need for new
genetic material and not by any other factors; and (d) the parental breeding stock is managed in a manner designed to maintain the breeding stock indefinitely, i.e. in a manner which has been demonstrated to be capable of reliably producing
second-generation offspring in a controlled environment.
