# 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 SECTION C: Imports from a country or a region with undetermined BSE risk

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

Imports of bovine animals from a country or a region with an undetermined BSE risk shall be subject to the presentation of an animal health certificate attesting that:
(a) the country or region has been categorised in accordance with this Regulation as a country or region with undetermined BSE risk;
(b) the feeding of ruminants with meat-and-bone meal and greaves from ruminants, as defined in the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code, has been banned and the ban has been effectively enforced in the country or region;
(c)the 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:
(i) all BSE cases;
(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
(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;
(d) the animals were born:
(i) at least two years 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
(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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2001/999/annex/IX/chapter/B/section/C (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-999/annex-IX/chapter-B/section-C
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