Explanatory note

This Order amends the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (No. 2) Order 1988 so as to prohibit the sale, supply and use of specified bovine offal and feedingstuffs containing specified bovine offal (which comprises the brain, spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and intestines of a bovine animal) or animal protein derived from it for feeding to any kind of mammal, except man, and any kind of four-footed beast which is not a mammal and any bird.

The Order further prohibits the exportation of feedingstuffs containing specified bovine offal or animal protein derived from it from Great Britain to a member State of the European Communities except under the authority of a licence issued by the Minister and in accordance with any conditions of the licence.