
Article 1 

((1)) The appropriate authority may revise their annual monitoring programmes as provided for in Article 6(1b) of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001.
((2)) In this Decision,  “appropriate authority” means:
(a) in relation to England, the Secretary of State;
(b) in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;
(c) in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers.
Article 2 

1. The revised annual monitoring programmes shall apply only to bovine animals born in the  countries and territories  listed in the Annex and shall cover at least the following categories:
(a) all bovine animals above 72 months of age subject to normal slaughter for human consumption, or slaughtered in the context of a disease eradication campaign but showing no clinical signs of disease, as referred to in point 2.2 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;
(b) all bovine animals above 48 months of age subject to emergency slaughter or with observations at ante mortem inspection as referred to in point 2.1 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;
(c) all bovine animals above 48 months of age, as referred to in point 3.1 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to that Regulation, which have died or been killed but which were not:
((i)) killed for destruction pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/96;
((ii)) killed in the framework of an epidemic, such as foot-and-mouth disease;
((iii)) slaughtered for human consumption.
2. When bovine animals belonging to the animal categories referred to in paragraph 1 and born in one of the  countries or territories  listed in the Annex are tested for BSE  , the age limits for testing in force in Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man  shall apply.
3. By way of derogation from point (a) of paragraph 1, from  the appropriate authority  may decide not to test animals in the subpopulation referred to in that point.
Article 3 
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Article 4 
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ANNEX


— Belgium
— Czech Republic
— Denmark
— Germany
— Estonia
— Ireland
— Greece
— Spain
— France
— Croatia
— Italy
— Cyprus
— Latvia
— Lithuania
— Luxembourg
— Hungary
— Malta
— Netherlands
— Austria
— Poland
— Portugal
— Slovakia
— Slovenia
— Finland
— Sweden
— United Kingdom and the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man
