
2006 No. 1228
ANIMALS, ENGLANDANIMAL HEALTH
The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (No. 2) Regulations 2006  (revoked)
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
Regulation 2

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SCHEDULE 2
TSE monitoring
Regulation 5
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
Regulation 5
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
Regulation 5
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
Regulation 5
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
Regulation 5
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 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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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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Definitions of Community legislation
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SCHEDULE 7
Restrictions on dispatch to other member States and to third countries
Regulation 5
Restrictions on dispatch to other member States and to third countries
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Exports to third countries
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