Division 2.1 The entry assessment shall consist of assessing the likelihood that the BSE agent has either been introduced into the country or region via commodities potentially contaminated with a BSE agent, or is already present in the country or region.F1F2

The following risk factors shall be taken into account:

1. (a)

   the presence or absence of the BSE agent in the country or region and, if the agent is present, its prevalence based on the outcome of surveillance activities;

2. (b)

   the production of meat-and-bone meal or greaves from the BSE indigenous ruminant population;

3. (c)

   imported meat-and-bone meal or greaves;

4. (d)

   imported bovine and ovine and caprine animals;

5. (e)

   imported animal feed and feed ingredients;

6. (f)

   imported products of ruminant origin for human consumption, which may have contained tissues listed in point 1 of Annex V and may have been fed to bovine animals;

7. (g)

   imported products of ruminant origin for in vivo use in bovine animals.