The European designation system (European Mentality System): the WCF standard for recording a cat's breed, colour and traits on its birth certificate and pedigree.
Each code is made up of several groups. The first three capital letters are the breed, then come lower-case letters for the colour, then pairs of digits that specify further traits.
The suffix s after a colour letter means the silver series, and y the golden series. For example, ns means black smoke and ny black golden.
| 01 | van | Van |
| 02 | harlequin | Harlequin |
| 03 | bicolour | Two-coloured, bicolour |
| 04 | mitted / white point | With white markings (for colourpoints) |
| 05 | snowshoe | Snowshoe |
| 09 | little white spots | White spots of 1–2 cm (a fault in longhairs) |
| 11 | shaded | Shaded (the top quarter of each hair is coloured) |
| 12 | tipped / shell | Shell (the top eighth of each hair is coloured) |
| 21 | tabby / agouti | Tabby, agouti factor |
| 22 | blotched / marble | Classic tabby |
| 23 | mackerel / tiger | Mackerel (tiger) |
| 24 | spotted | Spotted tabby |
| 25 | ticked | Ticked / Abyssinian |
| 31 | burmese colour | Burmese |
| 32 | tonkinese colour | Tonkinese |
| 33 | himalayan / siamese | Himalayan / Siamese |
| 34 | singapura colour | Singapura |
| 35 | abyssinian colour | Abyssinian, ticking |
| 51 | rumpy | Tailless |
| 52 | rumpy riser | Tail stub: 1–2 vertebrae |
| 53 | stumpy | Bob: 7–13 cm of curled tail |
| 54 | longy | Long / normal tail |
| 61 | blue | Blue |
| 62 | yellow / golden | Yellow, orange, golden |
| 63 | odd-eyed | Odd eyes |
| 64 | green | Green |
| 65 | burmese | Burmese eye colour |
| 66 | tonkinese | Tonkinese eye colour |
| 67 | himalayan / siamese | Himalayan and Siamese eye colour |
| 71 | straight ears | Straight: upright ears |
| 72 | curled ears | Curl: ears curled back |
| 73 | folded ears | Fold: ears folded forward |
Codes for every breed, searchable by name, are on a separate page: Cat breed codes (in Russian).
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