This Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, which is composed of 16 articles, establishes the conditions under which breeders’ organizations maintaining or establishing herd books for hybrid breeding pigs, shall be officially recognized. The organization must meet requirements relating to human resources (art. 4), technical conditions (art. 5) and conditions on control and registration of pedigrees (art. 6). In order to be officially recognized, a breeders' organization which maintains or establishes herd books must submit the application to the Minister responsible for livestock production.