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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-622/annex-II",
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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)",
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  "path": "annex/II",
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  "number": "II",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Annex III to Decision 2007/777/EC is amended as follows:\nThe model veterinary certificate Meat products, treated stomachs, bladders and intestines is amended as follows:\n(a) In Part II.2 Public health attestation, point II.2.9 is replaced by the following:\n‘(2) II.2.9.\nif containing material from bovine, ovine or caprine animals, the meat products and treated intestines are 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 and intestines used in the preparation of the meat products and treated intestines of bovine, ovine and caprine origin were derived, have passed ante mortem and post mortem inspections;\n(2) either [(3) the animals, from which the fresh meat and intestines used in the preparation of the meat products and treated intestines of bovine, ovine and caprine origin were 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 and intestines used in the preparation of the meat products and treated intestines of bovine, ovine and caprine origin were 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 products of bovine, ovine and caprine origin do not contain and are 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 products of bovine, ovine and caprine origin do not contain and are not derived from mechanically separated meat, obtained from bones of bovine, ovine and caprine animals;]\n(2) or [(5) the meat products of bovine, ovine and caprine origin are 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 and intestines used in the preparation of the meat products and treated intestines of bovine, ovine and caprine origin were 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 and intestines used in the preparation of the meat products and treated intestines of bovine, ovine and caprine origin were 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 meat products were produced and handled in a manner which ensures that they did not contain and were 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 and intestines used in the preparation of the meat products and treated intestines of bovine, ovine and caprine origin were derived, have passed ante mortem and post mortem inspections;\n(3) the animals from which the fresh meat and intestines used in the preparation of the meat products and treated intestines of bovine, ovine and caprine origin were 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 products of bovine, ovine and caprine origin do not contain and are 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) (4) [(5) in the case of intestines originally sourced from a country or a region with a negligible BSE risk, the treated intestines are subject to the following conditions:\n(a) the animals from which the intestines of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin were derived were born, continuously reared and slaughtered in a country or region with a negligible BSE risk and have passed ante mortem and post mortem inspections;\n(b) for intestines sourced from a country or region where there have been BSE indigenous cases:\n(2) either [(i) the animals were born after the date from which the ban on the feeding of ruminants with meat-and-bone meal and greaves derived from ruminants has been enforced;]\n(2) or [(i) the meat products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin do not contain and are not derived from specified risk material as defined in point 1 of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001.]]]\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 and intestines used in the preparation of the meat products and treated intestines of bovine, ovine and caprine origin were derived, have passed ante mortem and post mortem inspections;\n(3) the animals from which the fresh meat and intestines used in the preparation of the meat products and treated intestines of bovine, ovine and caprine origin were 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 and intestines used in the preparation of the meat products and treated intestines of bovine, ovine and caprine origin were 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 products of bovine, ovine and caprine origin do not contain and are 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 or caprine animals;\n(2) (4) [(6) in the case of intestines originally sourced from a country or a region with a negligible BSE risk, the treated intestines are subject to the following conditions:\n(a) the animals from which the intestines of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin were derived were born, continuously reared and slaughtered in a country or region with a negligible BSE risk and have passed ante mortem and post mortem inspections;\n(b) for intestines sourced from a country or region where there have been BSE indigenous cases:\n(2) either [(i) the animals were born after the date from which the ban on the feeding of ruminants with meat-and-bone meal and greaves derived from ruminants has been enforced;]\n(2) or [(i) the meat products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin do not contain and are not derived from specified risk material as defined in point 1 of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001.]]]’\n(b) In Part II of the Notes, footnote 3 is deleted.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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