Getting your RFID approved

If you are manufacturing, selling or preparing for sale identification devices for cattle and deer for use under the NAIT scheme, you need to apply for approval to the NAIT organisation.

The NAIT standard for animal identification devices sets out requirements for both cattle and deer NAIT tags.

Applying for approval

You must complete and submit the ‘NAIT device approval application’ at the back of 'NAIT guidelines for animal identification device approval'. As part of preliminary information, you need to provide:

• proof that you are legal New Zealand entity
• an overview of your business and services – including information about the full range of devices you manufacture or supply, and any other countries where you supply identification devices and for what purposes.

Refer to the guidelines for all the other information you must provide with your application form.

The NAIT approval process for RFID

The NAIT organisation follows a two-stage approval process.

1. In the first stage, it assesses your application form, the accompanying documentation and the submitted device to determine whether your device is likely to comply with the required physical and performance requirements in the Device Standard and the NAIT Act.
2. The second stage of the assessment process involves a 3-year field trial of the device’s performance.
   The NAIT organisation has to be satisfied your device meets the requirements in this standard and any associated guidelines.

Depending on what point the field trails your device have reached, it may give one of the three levels of approval for use of NAIT devices: trial, provisional and full approval.