Division SECTION A Imports from a country or a region with a negligible BSE riskF1

Imports of bovine animals from a country or a region with a negligible BSE risk shall be subject to the presentation of an animal health certificate attesting that:

1. (a)

   the animals were born and continuously reared in a country or region or countries or regions classified in accordance with F2this Regulation as countries or regions posing a negligible BSE risk;

2. (b)

   F3the animals are identified by a permanent identification system enabling them to be traced back to the dam and herd of origin, and are not the following bovine animals:

   1. (i)

      all BSE cases;

   2. (ii)

      all bovine animals which, during their first year of life, were reared with the BSE cases during their first year of life, and which investigation showed consumed the same potentially contaminated feed during that period; or

   3. (iii)

      if the results of the investigation referred to in indent (ii) are inconclusive, all bovine animals born in the same herd as, and within 12 months of the birth of, the BSE cases;

   and

3. (c)

   if there have been BSE indigenous cases in the country concerned, the animals were born:

   1. (i)

      after the date from which the ban on the feeding of ruminants with meat-and-bone meal and greaves derived from ruminants, as defined in the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code, has been effectively enforced; or

   2. (ii)

      after the date of birth of the last BSE indigenous case if born after the date of the feed ban referred to in indent (i).