# Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, 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.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The following risk factors shall be taken into account:
(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;
(b) the production of meat-and-bone meal or greaves from the BSE indigenous ruminant population;
(c) imported meat-and-bone meal or greaves;
(d) imported bovine and ovine and caprine animals;
(e) imported animal feed and feed ingredients;
(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;
(g) imported products of ruminant origin for in vivo use in bovine animals.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2001/999/annex/II/chapter/B/division/2/division/2.1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-999/annex-II/chapter-B/division-2/division-2.1
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