Good news,
I have several Q's os with BPEX at the moment an many more that i have not yet asked, so knowing what is happening would be good.
The site certainly needs updating (still says on the homepage they are sending out next week the letter which we all got in August)
The guides only cover registration - guides needed for farm to farm to farm, farm to market (and farm to show in due course), and a decent one for farm to slaughter - so that people can know ahead of doing it what info is needed, and covering both sender and receiver being on computer, sender on PC - receiver not, sender not on PC but receiver is, moves between E&W and Scotland (who still have paper at the mo), and import/export moves.
Additionally you are required to have a herdmark before you register, but the Defra guide to keeping pigs says to get this after you have got pigs, so if you follow the defra guide you get a very snotty letter from AHVLA saying that you are liable to a £5,000 fine. All AH's will now need to issue herdmarks before people get, so they can register with e-aml. And can someone stop this really awful letter being sent - it will just lead to less not more compliance, and makes AH look like a load of...
The system all over the place says "slapmark" which is only used for moves to slaughter (and then it is only one option), the correct term should be herdmark. Not being pedantic, many new pig keepers won't know what a slapmark is, or think they must slap a live to live move.
If you do a farm to farm e-aml, and know the registration no. of the haulier, and complete this, you STILL have to input it again to confirm move, there needs to be a check to say if you have already done it, and not to require it being re-input. Systems should not require the same data twice.
Any future communications should not repeat the "takes no longer than one minute" - this is simply not correct ! If receiver if not registered, it takes longer than a minute before you even start the form, and the form takes longer than one minute in nay case. You don't win friends by stretching the truth.
There should be an option to make the haulier the same as either the sender or receiver and as a result populate the address field - most smallholder moves are done by one or the other, and to have to type this is again leads to wasted time, and chance of error.
How will force majeaure be dealt with for those without PC's - eg I arrive on land and it is flooded, need to move pigs urgently, but have to give two days notice to BPEX and await a form before I can move.
Are BPEX sending out email forms to non-pc users first class?
Why are pigs with temporary marks required to complete "holding of birth" - I can see nothing in the legislation that requires this, and I may not know this in any case.
There seems to be no option for having one form with different types of pigs, so if I am taking 3 finishers and a cull sow to the abattoir or selling live do i have to fill in two forms? (and again i see nothing in law requiring the type of pigs being moved, so why is this being gathered?)
Has Wales yet passed the legislation that e-aml requires - i cannot trace this legislation.
Overall major question, why do those without computers now have to give at least two working days notice of a move, and await forms, when someone with a pc but not working printer, can use a pro-forma and handwrite the info that they have typed in. At least then those moving pigs at the weekend would only need to decide this on Friday at 4.45pm phone the details through and then do a hand pro-forma, not have to decide Wednesday or otherwise have to break the law.
That's my list so far.
Look forward to the answers.
PS and while I think of it, presume BPEX covers Scotland (as part of Britain!), so when will the new Scottish movement rules (and system?) come in requiring notification on the day, and how will it work?
