
Article 1 
Member States may extend up to nine months the maximum period laid down by Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 820/97 regarding the application of ear-tags to bison (Bison bison spp.).
This extension shall not effect the quality of information provided by the national database.
Article 2 

1. The extension provided for in Article 1 shall be granted subject to all the conditions set out in paragraphs 2 and 3.
2. The animals shall belong to the Bison bison spp.
3. The ear-tags shall be applied when the calves are separated from their mothers and, in any case, before they are nine months old. If an animal leaves the holding on which it was born before that age, it shall be ear-tagged before leaving the holding.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 8 March 1999.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission