The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (No. 2) Regulations 2006

Made: 2nd May 2006

Laid before Parliament: 2nd May 2006

Coming into force: 3rd May 2006

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PART 1 — General provisions

Title, application 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 2 — Introduction of Schedules

The Schedules

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PART 3 — 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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Offences by bodies corporate

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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 1 — 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 2 — 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

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Death while under restriction

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Placing on the market of bovine progeny

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When compensation is payable

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Amount of compensation payable

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Exceptions

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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 another holding

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Common grazing

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Multiple flocks on a holding

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Subsequent occupiers

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Introduction of animals onto a holding

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Use of ovine germinal products

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Movement of animals from a holding

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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 BSE affected sheep and goats

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Notification while the holding is 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 1 — 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 animals

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Compensation

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Slaughter or sale for human consumption

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PART 2 — 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 petfood or feedingstuffs

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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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Local authorities’ duties 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 local authorities

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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 another 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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SCHEDULE 7 — Restrictions on dispatch to other member States and to third countries

Restrictions on dispatch to other member States and to third countries

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Exports to third countries

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Signed

Bach — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 2006-05-02

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c. 68.

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

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

[^f00004]: S.I. 1998/871, as amended by S.I. 1998/2969 and S.I. 1999/1339.

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

[^f00006]: S.I. 1994/867 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

[^f00007]: ()OJ No. L 165 , 30.4.2004 , p.1. The revised text of Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 is now set out in a Corrigendum (OJ No. L 191, 28.5.2004, p. 1).

[^f00008]: ()OJ No. L 139 , 30.4.2004, p. 55. The revised text of Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 is now set out in a Corrigendum (OJ No. L 226, 25.6.2004, p. 22).

[^f00009]: OJ No. L 273, 10.2.2002, p. 1 as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 93/2005, OJ No. L19, 21.1.2005, p. 34.

[^f00010]: S.I. 2006/68.

[^f00011]: S.I. 2005/404.

[^f00012]: S.I. 1999/1103.

[^f00013]: OJ No. L 173, 27.6.2001, p. 12.

[^f00014]: OJ No. L 177, 30.6.2001, p. 60.

[^f00015]: OJ No. L 45, 15.2.2002, p. 4.

[^f00016]: OJ No. L 225, 22.8.2002, p. 3.

[^f00017]: OJ No. L 37, 13.2.2003, p. 7.

[^f00018]: OJ No. L 95, 11.4.2003, p. 15.

[^f00019]: OJ No. L 152, 20.6.2003, p. 8.

[^f00020]: OJ No. L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 33.

[^f00021]: OJ No. L 160, 28.6.2003, p. 1.

[^f00022]: OJ No. L 160, 28.6.2003, p. 22.

[^f00023]: OJ No. L 173, 11.7. 2003, p. 6.

[^f00024]: OJ No. L 265, 16.10.2003, p. 10.

[^f00025]: OJ No. L 283, 31.10.2003, p. 29.

[^f00026]: OJ No. L 333, 20.12.2003, p. 28.

[^f00027]: OJ No. L 162, 30.4.2004, p. 52.

[^f00028]: OJ No. L 271, 19.8.2004, p. 24.

[^f00029]: ()OJ No. L 274, 24.8.2004, p. 3.

[^f00030]: ()OJ No. L 344, 20.11.2004, p. 12.

[^f00031]: OJ No. L 10, 13.1.2005, p. 9.

[^f00032]: OJ No. L 37, 10.2.2005, p. 9.

[^f00033]: OJ No. L 46, 17.2.2005, p. 31.

[^f00034]: OJ No. L 163, 23.6.2005, p. 1.

[^f00035]: OJ No. L 204, 5.8.2005, p. 22.

[^f00036]: OJ No. L 205, 6.8.2005, p. 3.

[^f00037]: OJ No. L 317, 3.12.2005, p. 4.

[^f00038]: OJ No. L 44, 15.2.2006, p. 9.

[^f00039]: OJ No. L 55, 25.2.2006, p. 5.

[^f00040]: OJ No. L 116, 29.4.2006, p. 9.

[^f00041]: OJ No. L 99, 20.4.96, p. 14, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2109/2005 (OJ No. L 337, 22.12.2005, p. 25).

[^f00042]: ISBN 92-1-139097-4.

[^f00043]: OJ No. L 139 , 30.04.2004, p. 55. The revised text of Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 is now set out in a Corrigendum (OJ. No. L 226, 25.6.2004, p. 22).