
2010 No. 801
Animals, EnglandAnimal Health
The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2010  (revoked)
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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Service of 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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Review of these Regulations
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SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
Ambulatory References
Regulation 2(3)

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SCHEDULE 2
TSE Monitoring
Regulation 5(a)
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
Regulation 5(b)
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(c)
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
Regulation 5(d)
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
Regulation 5(e)
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
Regulation 5(f)
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
Regulation 5(g)
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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