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Division 1 Imports of products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin referred to in Section A from a country or a region with an undetermined BSE risk, shall be subject to the presentation of an animal health certificate attesting that:F1

United Kingdom

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  1. (a)

    the animals from which the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin were derived have not been fed meat-and-bone meal or greaves derived from ruminants, as defined in the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code, and passed ante mortem and post mortem inspections;

  2. (b)

    the animals from which the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin were derived have not been killed, after stunning, by laceration of central nervous tissue by means of an elongated rod-shaped instrument introduced into the cranial cavity, or by means of gas injected into the cranial cavity;

  3. (c)

    the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin do not contain and are not derived from:

    1. (i)

      specified risk material as defined in point 1 of Annex V to this Regulation;

    2. (ii)

      nervous and lymphatic tissues exposed during the deboning process;

    3. (iii)

      mechanically separated meat obtained from bones of bovine, ovine or caprine animals.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1396 of 18 August 2016 amending certain Annexes to Regulation (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).

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).

Notes on Annex IX

Textual amendments

F2

Words in Annex 9 heading substituted (16.11.2022) by The Animals, Food, Plant Health, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1090), regs. 1(1), 5(4)