Division SECTION B Health certificate requirementsF1F2

Imports of the animal by-products and derived products of bovine, ovine and caprine origin referred to in Section A shall be subject to the presentation of a health certificate which has been completed with the following attestation:

1. (a)

   the animal by-product or derived product:

   1. (i)

      does not contain and is not derived from specified risk material as defined in point 1 of Annex V to this Regulation; and

   2. (ii)

      does not contain and is not derived from mechanically separated meat obtained from bones of bovine, ovine or caprine animals, except if the animals, from which the animal by-product or derived product are derived, were born, continuously reared and slaughtered in a country or region classified in accordance with F3this Regulation as a country or region posing a negligible BSE risk, in which there has been no BSE indigenous cases; and

   3. (iii)

      is derived from animals which have not been killed, after stunning, by laceration of the 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, except for animals born, continuously reared and slaughtered in a country or region classified as posing a negligible BSE risk in accordance with F4this Regulation;

   or

2. (b)

   the animal by-product or derived product does not contain and is not derived from bovine, ovine and caprine materials other than those derived from animals born, continuously reared and slaughtered in a country or region classified as posing a negligible BSE risk in accordance with F5this Regulation.

In addition to the requirements of point 1 of this Section, imports of the animal by-products and derived products referred to in points (d) and (f) of Section A shall be subject to the presentation of a health certificate which has been completed with the following attestation:

1. (a)

   the animal by-product or derived product originates from a country or region, which is classified as posing a negligible BSE risk in accordance with F6this Regulation, and in which there has been no BSE indigenous case;

   or

2. (b)

   the animal by-product or derived product originates from a country or region classified as posing a negligible BSE risk in accordance with F7this Regulation in which there has been a BSE indigenous case, and the animal by-product or derived product was derived from animals born 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 in that country or region.

By way of derogation from the preceding paragraph, the attestation referred to in points (a) and (b) shall not be required for the importation of processed petfood, which is packaged and labelled in accordance with F8assimilated direct legislation.

In addition to the requirements of points 1 and 2 of this Section, imports of the animal by-products and derived products referred to in Section A, containing milk or milk products of ovine or caprine animal origin and intended for feed, shall be subject to the presentation of a health certificate which has been completed with the following attestation:

1. (a)

   the ovine and caprine animals from which those animal by-products or derived products have been derived have been kept continuously since birth in a country where the following conditions are fulfilled:

   1. (i)

      classical scrapie is compulsorily notifiable;

   2. (ii)

      an awareness, surveillance and monitoring system is in place;

   3. (iii)

      official restrictions apply to holdings of ovine or caprine animals in the case of a suspicion of TSE or a confirmation of classical scrapie;

   4. (iv)

      ovine and caprine animals affected with classical scrapie are killed and completely destroyed;

   5. (v)

      the feeding to ovine and caprine animals of meat-and-bone meal or greaves of ruminant origin, as defined in the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code, has been banned and effectively enforced in the whole country for a period of at least the preceding seven years;

2. (b)

   the milk and milk products of ovine or caprine animals originate from holdings where no official restrictions are imposed due to a suspicion of TSE;

3. (c)

   the milk and milk products of ovine or caprine animals originate from holdings where no case of classical scrapie has been diagnosed during a period of at least the preceding seven years or, following the confirmation of a case of classical scrapie:

   1. (i)

      all ovine and caprine animals on the holding have been killed and destroyed or slaughtered, except for breeding rams of the ARR/ARR genotype, breeding ewes carrying at least one ARR allele and no VRQ allele and other ovine animals carrying at least one ARR allele;

      or

   2. (ii)

      all animals in which classical scrapie was confirmed have been killed and destroyed, and the holding has been subjected for a period of at least two years since the date of confirmation of the last classical scrapie case to intensified TSE monitoring, including testing with negative results for the presence of TSE in accordance with the laboratory methods set out in point 3.2 of Chapter C of Annex X, of all of the following animals which are over the age of 18 months, except ovine animals of the ARR/ARR genotype:

      • animals which have been slaughtered for human consumption; and

      • animals which have died or been killed on the holding but which were not killed in the framework of a disease eradication campaign.