The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) Regulations 2008

Made: 9 December 2008

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales: 10 December 2008

Coming into force: 31 December 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

10

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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

14

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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

20

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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

2

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Slaughter of a suspect animal

3

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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

4

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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 export

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

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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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Signed

Elin Jones — Minister for Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers — 2008-12-09

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 2008/1792.

[^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]: 1973, c. 51. Functions transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 59(5) of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).

[^f00006]: S.I. 2007/842 (W.74).

[^f00007]: OJ No L 155, 15.6.2007, p.74.

[^f00008]: 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).

[^f00009]: OJ No L 172, 30.6.2007, p.84.

[^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).