The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Made: 2nd May 2006

Coming into operation: 3rd May 2006

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PART I — GENERAL PROVISIONS

Citation and commencement

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Interpretation

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Appointment of competent authority

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Exception for research

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PART II — INTRODUCTION OF SCHEDULES

The Schedules

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PART III — ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT

Approvals, authorisations, licences and registrations

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Occupier’s duty

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Suspension and amendment

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Revocations of approvals, etc.

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Appeals procedure

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Valuations

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Appointment of inspectors

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Powers of entry

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Powers of inspectors

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Notices

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Notices restricting movement

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Obstruction

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Penalties

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Enforcement

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Revocations

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SCHEDULE 1 — INSTRUMENTS RELEVANT TO COMMUNITY TSE REGULATION

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SCHEDULE 2 — TSE MONITORING

PART I — MONITORING FOR TSE

Notifications for the purposes of monitoring under Article 6 of the Community TSE Regulation

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Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal

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Brain stem sampling of bovine animals

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Slaughter of bovine animals over 30 months of age

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Retention of products and disposal

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Compensation

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PART II — CONTENTS OF AN RMOP

Animal identification and separation

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Brain stem sampling

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Correlation of sample to carcase and all other parts of the body

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Retention of carcases

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Retention of parts of the body

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Disposal before receipt of the result

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Other measures following sampling

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Removal of vertebral column

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SCHEDULE 3 — CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN BOVINE ANIMALS

Control and eradication of TSE - notification

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Restriction of a notified animal

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Slaughter of a suspect animal

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Identification and restriction of offspring and cohorts

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Action following confirmation of BSE

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Action where BSE is not confirmed

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Death while under restriction

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Placing on the market of bovine progeny

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Compensation

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Compensation for a suspect animal

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Compensation for a cohort animal

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Compensation for an offspring animal

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Compensation for Buffalo and Bison

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Assessment of market value

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Definitions

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SCHEDULE 4 — CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN SHEEP AND GOATS

Notification of TSE

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Restriction of a notified animal

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Slaughter of a suspect animal

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Movement restrictions

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Action where TSE is not confirmed

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Confirmation of TSE in sheep

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Confirmation of TSE in goats

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Confirmation of BSE in sheep or goats

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Time for appeals

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Killing and destruction following confirmation

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Infected animals from other premises

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Common grazing

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Multiple flocks on any premises

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Subsequent occupiers

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Introduction of an animal onto any premises

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Use of ovine germinal products

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Movement of an animal from any premises

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Time of movement restrictions

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Death while under restriction

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Placing on the market of progeny of a BSE affected sheep or goat

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Notification while any premises are under restriction

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Derogations

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Compensation for a sheep or goat slaughtered as a suspect animal

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Compensation for animals killed or products destroyed following confirmation of TSE

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Valuations

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SCHEDULE 5 — FEEDINGSTUFFS

PART I — RESTRICTIONS ON FEEDING PROTEINS TO ANIMALS

Prohibition on feeding animal protein to ruminants

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Prohibition on feeding animal protein to non-ruminants

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Exceptions

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Movement prohibitions and restrictions of animals

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Slaughter of an animal

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Compensation

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Slaughter or sale for human consumption

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PART II — PRODUCTION OF PROTEIN AND FEEDINGSTUFFS

Fishmeal for feeding to non-ruminant farmed animals

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Offences relating to fishmeal and feedingstuffs containing fishmeal

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Feedingstuffs containing dicalcium phosphate or tricalcium phosphate for feeding to non-ruminant animals

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Offences relating to feedingstuffs containing dicalcium phosphate or tricalcium phosphate for feeding to non-ruminant animals

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Blood products and blood meal

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Offences relating to feedingstuffs containing blood products or blood meal

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Change in use of equipment

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Conditions applying to the storage and transport of bulk quantities of protein products and feedingstuffs containing such proteins

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Conditions applying to the manufacture and transport of feedingstuffs, including petfood

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Export of processed animal protein to third countries

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Fertilisers

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Record keeping for transport etc. of reject petfood

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Cross-contamination of materials originating from premises where processed animal proteins (except fishmeal) are in use

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SCHEDULE 6 — Specified risk material, mechanically separated meat and slaughtering techniques

Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority

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District council obligations with regards to butcher shops

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Training

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Mechanically recovered meat

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Pithing

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Tongue harvesting

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Head meat harvesting

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Removal of specified risk material

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Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse

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Sheep and goats in a slaughterhouse

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Young lamb and goat stamps

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Removal of spinal cord from sheep and goats

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Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency

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Authorisation and registration of butcher shops by District Councils

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Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)

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Removal of bovine vertebral column that is specified risk material at a cutting plant not authorised under paragraph 13(1)(a)

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Removal of bovine vertebral column that is specified risk material at a butcher shop authorised and registered under paragraph 14

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Meat from Great Britain or a member State

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Staining and disposal of specified risk material

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Scheme animals

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Security of specified risk material

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Prohibition on the supply of specified risk material for human consumption

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It is an offence to sell or supply—

• (a) any specified risk material, or any food containing specified risk material for human consumption; or

• (b) any specified risk material for use in the preparation of any food for human consumption.

SCHEDULE 7 — RESTRICTIONS ON DISPATCH TO MEMBER STATES AND TO THIRD COUNTRIES

Restrictions on dispatch to member States and to third countries

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Exports to third countries

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SCHEDULE 8 — REVOCATIONS

Instrument	Reference	Extent
The Specified Risk Material Order (Northern Ireland) 1997	S.R. 1997 No. 551	The whole Order.
The Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997	S.R. 1997 No. 552	The whole Regulations.
The Bovines and Bovine Products (Trade) Regulations 1999	S.R. 1999 No. 308	The whole Regulations.
The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999	S.R. 1999 No. 157	The whole Regulations.
The Specified Risk Material (Inspection Charges) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999	S.R. 1999 No. 431	The whole Regulations.
The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000	S.R. 2000 No. 78	Regulation 6(8) and (11), Schedule 4 Parts VIII and XI. Schedule 8 Part III
The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2000	S.R. 2000 No. 295	The whole Regulations.
The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001	S.R. 2001 No. 1	The whole Order.
The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001	S.R. 2001 No.48	The whole Regulations.
The Restriction on Pithing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001	S.R. 2001 No. 186	The whole Regulations.
The Specified Risk Material (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001	S.R. 2001 No. 196	The whole Regulations.
The Bovines and Bovine Products (Trade) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001	S.R. 2001 No. 210	The whole Regulations.
The Specified Risk Material (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001	S.R. 2001 No. 376	The whole Regulations.
The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001	S.R. 2001 No. 377	The whole Order.
The Processed Animal Protein Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001	S.R. 2001 No. 405	The whole Regulations.
The TSE Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002	S.R. 2002 No. 225	The whole Regulations.
The Bovines and Bovine Products (Trade) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002	S.R. 2002 No. 278	The whole Regulations
The Animal By-Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003	S.R. 2003 No. 495	Regulation 50 Schedule 4
The TSE (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003	S.R. 2003 No. 509	The whole Regulations.
The TSE (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004	S.R. 2004 No. 388	The whole Regulations.
The TSE (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005	S.R. 2005 No. 25	The whole Regulations.
The Animal and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005	S.R. 2005 No. 78	Regulation 5(5)
The TSE (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005	S.R. 2005 No. 200	The whole Regulations.
The TSE (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005	S.R. 2005 No. 436	The whole Regulations.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on

Liam Mc Kibben — A senior officer of the — Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c. 68

[^f00002]: S.I. 1999/2027

[^f00003]: O.J. No. L 31, 1.2.2002, p.1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 1642/2003 (O.J. No. L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 4)

[^f00004]: S.R.1999 No. 324 as amended by S.R. 2001 No. 292 and S.R. 2004 No. 420

[^f00005]: O.J. No. L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1

[^f00006]: O.J. No. L 99, 20.4.1996, p. 14, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2109/2005 (O.J. No. L 337, 22.12.2005, p.25)

[^f00007]: O.J. No. L 165, 30.4.2004, p.1. The revised text of Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 is now set out in a Corrigendum (O.J. No. L191, 28.5.2004, p.1)

[^f00008]: O.J. No. L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55. The revised text of Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 is now set out in a Corrigendum (O.J. No. L226, 25.6.2004, p.22)

[^f00009]: 1954 c. 33 (N.I.)

[^f00010]: O.J. No. L273, 10.10.2002, p. 1 as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 208/2006, O.J. No. L36, 8.2.2006, p. 25

[^f00011]: O.J. No. L 173, 27.6.2001, p. 12

[^f00012]: O.J. No. L 177, 30.6.2001, p. 60

[^f00013]: O.J. No. L 45, 15.2.2002, p. 4

[^f00014]: O.J. No. L 225, 22.8.2002, p .3

[^f00015]: O.J. No. L 37, 13.2.2003, p. 7

[^f00016]: O.J. No. L 95, 11.4.2003, p. 15

[^f00017]: O.J. No. L 152, 20.6.2003, p. 8

[^f00018]: O.J. No. L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 33

[^f00019]: O.J. No. L 160, 28.6.2003, p. 1

[^f00020]: O.J. No. L 160, 28.6.2003, p. 22

[^f00021]: O.J. No. L 173, 11.7. 2003, p. 6

[^f00022]: O.J. No. L 265, 16.10.2003, p. 10

[^f00023]: O.J. No. L 283, 31.10.2003, p. 29

[^f00024]: O.J. No. L 333, 20.12.2003, p. 28

[^f00025]: O.J. No. L 162, 30.4.2004, p. 52

[^f00026]: O.J. No. L 271, 19.8.2004, p. 24

[^f00027]: ()O.J. No. L 274, 24.8.2004, p. 3

[^f00028]: ()O.J. No. L 344, 20.11.2004, p. 12

[^f00029]: O.J. No. L 10, 13.1.2005, p. 9

[^f00030]: O.J. No. L 37, 10.2.2005, p. 9

[^f00031]: O.J. No. L 46, 17.2.2005, p. 31

[^f00032]: O.J. No. L 163, 23.6.2005, p. 1

[^f00033]: O.J. No. L 204, 5.8.2005, p. 22

[^f00034]: O.J. No. L 205, 6.8.2005, p. 3

[^f00035]: O.J. No. L 317, 3.12.2005, p. 4

[^f00036]: O.J. No. L 44, 15.2.2006, p. 9

[^f00037]: O.J. No. L 55, 25.2.2006, p.5

[^f00038]: O.J. No. L 116, 29.4.2006, p 9

[^f00039]: O.J. No. L 99, 20.4.1996, p. 14, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2109/2005 (O.J. No. L 337, 22.12.2005, p.25)

[^f00040]: ISBN 92-1-139097-4

[^f00041]: O.J. No. L204, 5.8.2005, p. 22

[^f00042]: O.J. No. L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55. The revised text of Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 is now set out in a Corrigendum (O.J. No. L226, 25.6.2004, p.22).

[^f00043]: O.J. No. L 99, 20.4.1996, p. 14, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2109/2005 (O.J. No. L 337, 22.12.2005, p.25)

[^f00044]: O.J. No. L 273, 10.10.2002, p. 1 as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 208/2006 (O.J. No. L36, 8.2.2006, p. 25

[^f00045]: S.R. 2003 No. 495

Editorial notes

CONTENTS

1.	Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority
2.	District councils’ obligations with regard to butcher shops
3.	Training
4.	Mechanically separated meat
5.	Pithing
6.	Tongue harvesting
7.	Head meat harvesting
8.	Removal of specified risk material
9.	Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse
10.	Sheep and goats in a slaughterhouse
11.	Young lamb and goat stamps
12.	Removal of spinal cord from sheep and goats
13.	Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency
14.	Authorisation and registration of butcher shops by District Councils
15.	Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)
16.	Removal of bovine vertebral column that is specified risk material at a cutting plant not authorised under paragraph 13(1)(a)
17.	Removal of bovine vertebral column that is specified risk material at a butcher shop authorised and registered under paragraph 14
18.	Meat from Great Britain or a member State
19.	Staining and disposal of specified risk material
20.	Scheme animals
21.	Security of specified risk material
22.	Prohibition on the supply of specified risk material for human consumption
23.	Definitions of Community legislation

Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority

District council obligations with regards to butcher shops

Training

Mechanically separated meat

Pithing

Tongue harvesting

Head meat harvesting

Removal of specified risk material

Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse

Sheep and goats in a slaughterhouse

Young lamb and goat stamps

Removal of spinal cord from sheep and goats

Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency

Authorisation and registration of butcher shops by district councils

Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)

Removal of bovine vertebral column that is specified risk material at a cutting plant not authorised under paragraph 13(1)(a)

Removal of bovine vertebral column that is specified risk material at a butcher shop authorised and registered under paragraph 14

Meat from Great Britain or a member State

Staining and disposal of specified risk material

Scheme animals

Security of specified risk material

Prohibition on the supply of specified risk material for human consumption

Definitions of Community legislation

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In this Schedule—

• “Regulation 853/2004” means Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 1791/2006 and as read with Directive 2004/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1688/2005, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2074/2005 (itself amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1664/2006) and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2076/2005 (itself amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1666/2006);

• “Regulation 854/2004” means Regulation (EC) No. 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 1791/2006 and as read with Directive 2004/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2074/2005 (itself amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1664/2005), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2075/2005 (itself amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1665/2006) and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2076/2005 (itself amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1666/2005); and

• “Regulation 882/2004” means Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 1791/2006 and as read with Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2074/2005 (itself amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1664/2005) and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2076/2005 (itself amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1666/2005)”.

Training

Mechanically separated meat

Pithing

Tongue harvesting

Head meat harvesting

Removal of specified risk material

Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse

Sheep and goats in a slaughterhouse

Young lamb and goat stamps

Removal of spinal cord from sheep and goats

Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency

Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 12(1)

Meat from another member State

Staining and disposal of specified risk material

Scheme animals

Security of specified risk material

Prohibition on the dispatch of heads and un-split carcases to other member States

Prohibition on the supply of specified risk material for human consumption

Transitional provisions

Definitions of Community legislation

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