{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-622/annex-I",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2017/622",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/622 of 31 March 2017 amending the model certificate for imports of meat preparations in Annex II to Decision 2000/572/EC and the model certificate for imports of certain meat products, treated stomachs, bladders and intestines in Annex III to Decision 2007/777/EC in relation to the rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-622",
  "path": "annex/I",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Annex II to Decision 2000/572/EC is amended as follows:\nIn the model veterinary certificate Meat preparations: MP-PREP, in Part II. Health information, in Part II.1 Public health attestation, point II.1.9 is replaced by the following:\n‘(2) II.1.9.\nif containing material from bovine, ovine or caprine animals, the meat preparation is subject to the following conditions depending on the BSE risk category of the country of origin:\n(2) either [(1) the country or region of dispatch is classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC as a country or region posing a negligible BSE risk;\n(2) the animals, from which the fresh meat used in the preparation of the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin was derived, have passed ante mortem and post mortem inspections;\n(2) either [(3) the animals, from which the fresh meat used in the preparation of the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin was derived:\n(a) were born, continuously reared and slaughtered in a country or region classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC as a country or region posing a negligible BSE risk;\n(2) [(b) have been slaughtered after stunning by means of gas injected into the cranial cavity or killed by the same method or slaughtered by laceration after stunning of central nervous tissue by means of an elongated rod-shaped instrument introduced into the cranial cavity;]]\n(2) or [(3) the animals, from which the fresh meat used in the preparation of the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin was derived, have not been slaughtered, after stunning, by means of gas injected into the cranial cavity or killed by the same method or slaughtered by laceration after stunning of central nervous tissue by means of an elongated rod-shaped instrument introduced into the cranial cavity;]\n(4) the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin does not contain and is not derived from specified risk material as defined in point 1 of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;\n(2) either [(5) the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin does not contain and is not derived from mechanically separated meat, obtained from bones of bovine, ovine and caprine animals;]\n(2) or [(5) the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin is derived from mechanically separated meat, obtained from bones of bovine, ovine and caprine animals which were born, continuously reared and slaughtered in a country or region classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC as a country or region posing a negligible BSE risk and in which there has been no BSE indigenous cases;]\n(2) [(6) (a) the animals, from which the fresh meat used in the preparation of the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin was derived, originate from a country or region classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC as a country or region posing an undetermined BSE risk;\n(b) the animals, from which the fresh meat used in the preparation of the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin was derived, have not been fed with meat-and-bone meal or greaves, as defined in the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial Animal Health Code, and\n(c) the fresh meat used in the preparation of the meat preparation was produced and handled in a manner which ensures that it did not contain and was not contaminated with nervous and lymphatic tissues exposed during the deboning process.]]\n(2) or [(1) the country or region of dispatch is classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC as a country or region posing a controlled BSE risk;\n(2) the animals, from which the fresh meat used in the preparation of the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin was derived, have passed ante mortem and post mortem inspections;\n(3) the animals from which the fresh meat used in the preparation of the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin was derived, have not been killed, after stunning, by laceration of central nervous tissue by means of an elongated rod-shaped instrument introduced into the cranial cavity, or by means of gas injected into the cranial cavity;\n(4) the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin does not contain and is not derived from specified risk material as defined in point 1 of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, or mechanically separated meat obtained from bones of bovine, ovine and caprine animals.]\n(2) or [(1) the country or region of dispatch has not been classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC or is classified as a country or region with an undetermined BSE risk;\n(2) the animals, from which the fresh meat used in the preparation of the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin was derived, have passed ante mortem and post mortem inspections;\n(3) the animals from which the fresh meat used in the preparation of the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin was derived, have not been fed meat-and-bone meal or greaves derived from ruminants, as defined in the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code;\n(4) the animals from which the fresh meat used in the preparation of the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin was derived, have not been killed, after stunning, by laceration of central nervous tissue by means of an elongated rod-shaped instrument introduced into the cranial cavity, or by means of gas injected into the cranial cavity;\n(5) the meat preparation of bovine, ovine and caprine origin does not contain and is not derived from:\n(a) specified risk material as defined in point 1 of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;\n(b) nervous and lymphatic tissues exposed during the deboning process;\n(c) mechanically separated meat obtained from bones of bovine, ovine and caprine animals.]’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2017/622/annex/I",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}