The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2010

Made: 11th March 2010

Laid before Parliament: 16th March 2010

Coming into force: 6th April 2010

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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 or registrations

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Occupier’s duty

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Suspension and amendment

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Revocations of approvals, authorisations, licences or registrations

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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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Amendment of the Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations 1995

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Consequential amendment

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Revocations

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SCHEDULE 1 — Ambulatory References

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SCHEDULE 2 — TSE Monitoring

PART 1 — Monitoring for TSE

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

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

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Persons collecting and delivering

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Destruction without sampling

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Retention of bodies of bovine animals pending test results

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Remote Areas

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Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal

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Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (slaughterhouses)

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Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (other places of slaughter)

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Approval of laboratories

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Approved sampling sites

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Slaughter of bovine animals

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Retention of products and disposal

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TSE sampling of sheep, goats and deer

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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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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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Use of milk and milk products following confirmation of classical scrapie

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Inability to exclude BSE in sheep or goats

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Confirmation of atypical scrapie in sheep or goats

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Derogation

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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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Compensation for milk and milk products compulsorily destroyed in accordance with paragraph 9

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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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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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Fishmeal for feeding to unweaned, 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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Bovine animals, sheep and goats in other places of slaughter

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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 13(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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Security of specified risk material

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Prohibition on the sale, supply or possession for sale or supply of specified risk material for human consumption

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SCHEDULE 8 — Restrictions on placing on the market and export

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

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

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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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Further offences relating to placing on the market and export

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Signed

Jim Fitzpatrick — Minister of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 2010-03-08

Tony Cunningham — Frank Roy — Two of the Lord Commissioners of — Her Majesty’s Treasury — 2010-03-11

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations, which apply in England, revoke and remake with amendments the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/1881).

These Regulations enforce Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (OJ No L 147, 31.5.2001, p 1) as amended (“the EU TSE Regulation”). They also enforce—

• (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The main Regulations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Schedule 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Schedule 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Schedule 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Schedule 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Schedule 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Schedule 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Schedule 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Schedule 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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 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).

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

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

[^f00007]: 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 (OJNoL 226, 25.6.2004, p 22), which should be read with a further Corrigendum (OJ No L 204, 4.8.2007, p 26), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1020/2008 amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin and Regulation (EC)No 2076/2005 as regards identification marking, raw milk and dairy products, eggs and egg products and certain fishery products (OJ No L 277, 18.10.2008, p 8).

[^f00008]: Established by the Food Standards Act 1999 c. 28.

[^f00009]: 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 (OJNoL191, 28.5.2004, p 1), which should be read with a further Corrigendum (OJ No L 204, 4.8.2007, p 29). Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 was last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1029/2008 amending Regulation (EC)No882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council to update a reference to certain European standards (OJNo. L 278, 21.10.2008, p 6).

[^f00010]: 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).

[^f00011]: OJ No L 172, 30.6.2007, p 84 as last amended by Commission Decision 2009/830/EC (OJ No L 295, 12.11.2009, p 11).

[^f00012]: OJ No L 256, 29.9.2009, p 35, as last amended by Commission Decision 2010/66/EU (OJ NoL 35, 6.2.2010, p 21).

[^f00013]: S.I. 1994/867 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

[^f00018]: OJ No L 157, 30.4.2004, p 33. The revised text of Directive 2004/41/EC is now set out in a Corrigendum (OJNoL195,2.6.2004, p 12).

[^f00019]: OJ No L 271, 15.10.2005, p 17.

[^f00020]: OJ No L 338, 22.12.2005, p 27, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1022/2008 amending Regulation (EC)No 2074/2005 as regards the total volatile basic nitrogen (TVB-N) limits (OJ No L 277, 18.10.2008, p 18).

[^f00021]: OJ No L139 30.4.2004 p 1).

[^f00022]: OJ No L 338, 22.12.2005, p 83, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1023/2008 amending Regulation (EC)No 2076/2005 as regards the extension of the transitional period granted to food business operators importing fish oil for human consumption (OJ No L 277, 18.10.2008, p 21).

[^f00023]: S.I. 1995/614, as last amended by S.I. 2009/1119.

[^f00024]: S.I. 2009/3255.

[^f00025]: S. I. 2008/1881.

[^f00026]: S. I. 2008/2269.

[^f00027]: S. I. 2008/3295.

[^f00028]: ISBN 92-1-139097-4.

[^f00031]: OJ No L 204, 11.8.2000, p 1, last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ No L363, 20.12.2006, p 1).

[^f00032]: Colour Index is published online by the Society of Dyers and Colourists at Perkin House, 82 Grattan Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 2JB. See www.colour-index.org.

[^f00033]: OJ No L 155, 15.6.2007, p74.

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[^key-98834ffb26298673be328a7c80ecba98]: Regulations revoked (19.7.2018) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/731), reg. 1(1), Sch. 9 (with reg. 23)

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