The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2008

Made: 15th July 2008

Laid before Parliament: 17th July 2008

Coming into force: 7th August 2008

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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

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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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Corporate offences

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Enforcement

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Revocations

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SCHEDULE 1 — Ambulatory references

The EC instruments which must be construed as amended from time to time are—

• (a) The Community TSE Regulation;

• (b) Regulation (EC) No. 1774/2002;

• (c) Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004; and

• (d) Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004.

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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Approval of laboratories

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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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Confirmation of atypical scrapie 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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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 — Control and eradication of TSE in animals that are not bovine, ovine or caprine

Notification

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Restriction of a notified animal

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Slaughter of a suspect animal

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Compensation

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Retention of products and disposal

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SCHEDULE 6 — 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 7 — Specified risk material, mechanically separated meat and slaughtering techniques

Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority

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Training

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

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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 8 — Restrictions on placing on the market and export

Export to other member States and to third countries of bovine animals and products

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• (1) It is an offence for any person to export (or offer to export) to other member States or to third countries—

• (a) in accordance with Part II of Chapter A of Annex VIII to the Community TSE Regulation, bovine animals born or reared in the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996; or

• (b) in accordance with Article 1(1) of Commission Decision 2007/411/EC, any products consisting of or incorporating any material (other than milk) derived from a bovine animal born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996.

• (2) The prohibition in sub-paragraph (1)(b) does not apply to the hides of bovine animals born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996 (including hides from bovine animals referred to in the third indent of point 1(a) of Annex VII to the Community Regulation) that have been used for leather production in accordance with Article 1(3) of Commission Decision 2007/411/EC.

• (3) In this paragraph the powers of an inspector may also be exercised by a person appointed as such in relation to a hide market or tannery by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board.

Export to member States of heads and un-split carcases

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Export to third countries of products containing specified risk material

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Signed

Jeff Rooker — Minister of State — 2008-07-15

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1999/2027.

[^f00002]: 1972 c.68. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c..51).

[^f00003]: 1973 c.51.

[^f00004]: OJ NoL 31, 1.2.2002, p1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No1642/2003 (OJ NoL 245, 29.9.2003, p 4).

[^f00005]: S.I. 2007/529.

[^f00006]: OJ No L 155, 15.6.2007, p 74.

[^f00007]: OJ No L 147, 31.5.2001, p 1, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 571/2008 (OJ No L 161, 20.6.2008, p 4).

[^f00008]: OJ No L 172, 30.6.2007, p 84.

[^f00009]: S.I. 1994/867 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

[^f00010]: OJ No L 273, 10.10.2002, p 1, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 523/2008 (OJ No L 153, 12.6.2008, p 23).

[^f00011]: OJ No L 117, 13.5.2003, p 14.

[^f00012]: OJ No L 162, 30.4.2004, p 62,as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1877/2006 (OJ No L 360, 19.12.2006, p133).

[^f00013]: OJ No L 19, 21.1.2005, p 27, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1576/2007 (OJ No L 340, 22.12.07, p 89).

[^f00014]: 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) which should be read with a further Corrigendum (OJ No L204, 4.8.2007, p 26), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1243/2007 (OJ No L 281, 25.10.2007, p 8).

[^f00015]: OJ No L 157, 30.4.2004, p 33. The revised text of Directive 2004/41/EC is now set out in a Corrigendum (OJ No L 195, 2.6.2004, p 12).

[^f00016]: OJ No L 271, 15.10.2005, p 17.

[^f00017]: OJ No L 338, 22.12.2005, p 27, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1244/2007 (OJ No L 281, 25.10.2007, p 12).

[^f00018]: OJ No L 338, 22.12.2005, p 83, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1246.2007 (OJ No L 281, 25.10.2007, p 21).

[^f00019]: 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), as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ No L 363, 20.12.2006, p 1).

[^f00020]: S.I. 2006/1228.

[^f00021]: S.I. 2005/3068.

[^f00022]: 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).

[^f00023]: ISBN 92-1-139097-4.

[^f00024]: 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).

[^f00025]: OJ No L 125, 12.05.1984, p 58.

[^f00026]: OJ No. L 84, 24.3.2007, p. 37.

[^f00027]: S. I. 2005/2347.

[^f00028]: OJ No L 204, 11.8.2000, p 1, as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ No L 363, 20.12.2006, p 1).

[^f00029]: Colour Index is published by the Society of Dyers and Colourists at Perkin House, 82 Grattan Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 2JB.

[^f00030]: OJ No L 99, 20.4.1996, p 14, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2109/2005 (OJ No L 337, 22.12.2005, p 25).

The EC instruments which must be construed as amended from time to time are—

• (a) The Community TSE Regulation;

• (b) Regulation (EC) No. 1774/2002;

• (c) Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004; and

• (d) Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004.

Editorial notes

[^key-f255be8d4d38cd1c25610f24b9d544d0]: Regulations revoked (6.4.2010) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/801), regs. 1(c), 23(a)

Notification of the body of a goat for the purpose of monitoring under Article 6 of the Community TSE Regulation

Delivery of the body of a bovine animal for the purpose of monitoring under Article 6 of the Community TSE Regulation

1A

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Persons collecting and delivering

1B

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Destruction without sampling

1C

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Retention of bodies of bovine animals pending test results

1D

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Isle of Wight

1E

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Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal

Brain stem sampling of bovine animals

Approval of laboratories

Approved sampling sites

4A

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Slaughter of bovine animals over 30 months of age

Retention of products and disposal

Compensation

Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine products

1A

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Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine animals

1B

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Export to member States of heads and un-split carcases

Export to third countries of products containing specified risk material

Appointment of Food Standards Agency inspectors

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