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Division 3 Monitoring in ovine and caprine animals not slaughtered for human consumptionF1F2F3

United Kingdom

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F4The appropriate authorities shall test, in accordance with the sampling rules set out in point 4 and the minimum sample sizes indicated in Table A and Table B, ovine and caprine animals which have died or been killed, but which were not:

  • killed in the framework of a disease eradication campaign, or

  • slaughtered for human consumption.

Table A

Minimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the ovine populations F5... and are intended to provide achievable targets.

F6...Population of ewes and ewe lambs put to the ram Minimum sample size of dead ovine animals f1
> 750 000 10 000
100 000 - 750 000 1 500
40 000 - 100 000 100 % up to 500
< 40 000 100 % up to 100

Table B

Minimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the caprine population F7... and are intended to provide achievable targets.

F8...Population of goats which have already kidded and goats mated Minimum sample size of dead caprine animals f2
> 750 000 10 000
250 000 - 750 000 1 500
40 000 - 250 000 100 % up to 500
< 40 000 100 % up to 100

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2245/2003 of 19 December 2003 amending Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards monitoring of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in ovine and caprine animals.

F2

Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 36/2005 of 12 January 2005 amending Annexes III and X to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards epidemio-surveillance for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in bovine, ovine and caprine animals (Text with EEA relevance).

F3

Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 727/2007 of 26 June 2007 amending Annexes I, III, VII and X to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (Text with EEA relevance).

F4

Words in Annex 3 Ch. A Pt. 2 point 3 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and Animal By-Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/170), regs. 1, 2(22)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F5

Words in Annex 3 Ch. A Pt. 2 point 3 Table A omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of S.I. 2019/170, reg. 2(22)(b)(iii) (as inserted by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(a), 20(2)(j)(ii))

F6

Words in Annex 3 Ch. A Pt. 2 point 3 Table A substituted (31.12.2020) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and Animal By-Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/170), regs. 1, 2(22)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F7

Words in Annex 3 Ch. A Pt. 2 point 3 Table B omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of S.I. 2019/170, reg. 2(22)(b)(iii) (as inserted by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(a), 20(2)(j)(ii))

F8

Words in Annex 3 Ch. A Pt. 2 point 3 Table B substituted (31.12.2020) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and Animal By-Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/170), regs. 1, 2(22)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1

Minimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the ovine populations ... and are intended to provide achievable targets.

f2

Minimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the caprine population ... and are intended to provide achievable targets.

Notes on the whole EU Regulation

Textual amendments

F1

Inserted by Regulation (EC) No 1923/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (Text with EEA relevance).