3. Prerequisites for participation
3.1 Countries that participate with data must be members of Interbull, and should support the ICAR guidelines for data collection, the principles outlined in “Interbull guidelines for national & international genetic evaluation systems in dairy cattle with focus on production traits” (Interbull Bulletin no. 28) and, where applicable, “Recommended procedures for international use of sire proofs” (Interbull Bulletin no. 4).
3.2 Countries that participate with data must sign a service contract with the Interbull Centre, and sign letters of agreement covering the trait-groups, in addition to dairy-production traits, that a country participates in the evaluation with data. The service contract and letters of agreement can be found in Appendix I and for downloading at http://www.interbull.org.
3.3 Countries that participate with data must accept their responsibility as stated in these codes of practice.
3.4 Countries that do not participate with data, but wish to receive international evaluation results, must be members of Interbull, pay agreed fees (item 10), and sign a service contract and the appropriate letters of agreement with the Interbull Centre.