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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-999/annex-VII/chapter-B/division-4",
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  "legislation": "eur/2001/999",
  "legislation_title": "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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-999",
  "path": "annex/VII/chapter/B/division/4",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Following the decision to implement option 3 laid down in point 2.2.2(d) or the derogation provided for in point 2.2.2(c)(iii) the following measures shall immediately apply to the holding:",
  "text": "4.1. The holding shall be subject to an intensified TSE monitoring protocol. This shall include the testing for the presence of TSE in animals over the age of 18 months which:\nhave been slaughtered for human consumption,\nhave died or been killed on the holding but not in the framework of a disease eradication campaign.\nOvine animals of the ARR/ARR genotype and caprine animals carrying at least one of the K222, D146 or S146 alleles are exempt. Testing shall be carried out in accordance with the laboratory methods and protocols set out in Annex X, Chapter C, Part 3, point 3.2.\n4.2. The conditions set out in points 3.2 and 3.3 shall apply.\nNothing in this Regulation prevents the appropriate authority from deciding that instead of the measures in points 3.2 and 3.3 the authority may decide to allow the introduction and use in the holding of\nmale ovine animals and their semen carrying at least one ARR allele and no VRQ allele including for breeding,\nfemale ovine animals carrying no VRQ allele,\nembryos carrying no VRQ allele,\nsubject to compliance with the following conditions:\nthe breed of the animal kept on the holding is an endangered breed,\nthe breed of the animal kept on the holding is subject to a breeding programme aiming at the preservation of the breed carried out by a breed society as defined in Article 2(5) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1012 or a competent authority in accordance with Article 38 of that Regulation, and\nthe frequency of the ARR allele within that breed is low.\n4.3. Movement of animals from the holding shall be allowed for the purposes of destruction or to go directly for slaughter for human consumption or shall be subject to the following conditions:\n(a) rams and ewes of the ARR/ARR genotype and caprine animals carrying at least one of the K222, D146 or S146 alleles, may be moved from the holding for all purposes, including breeding, provided that they are moved to other holdings which are subject to the application of measures in accordance with points 2.2.2(c) (option 2) or 2.2.2(d) (option 3);\n(b) if the appropriate authority so decides, lambs and kids may be moved to one other holding located within its territory solely for the purposes of fattening prior to slaughter subject to compliance with the following conditions:\nthe holding of destination does not contain any ovine or caprine animals other than those being fattened prior to slaughter,\nat the end of the fattening period, the lambs and kids shall be transported directly to a slaughterhouse located within the United Kingdom to be slaughtered not later than when they are 12 months of age.\n4.4. The appropriate authority shall ensure that no semen, embryo and ova are dispatched from the holding.\n4.5. Common grazing of all ovine and caprine animals in the holding with ovine and caprine animals of other holdings shall be prohibited during the lambing and/or kidding period.\nOutside of the lambing and/or kidding period, common grazing shall be subject to restrictions to be determined by the appropriate authority, based on a reasoned consideration of all the epidemiological factors.\n4.6. The restrictions set out in points 4.1 to 4.5 shall apply for a period of two years following the detection of the last TSE case, other than atypical scrapie, on the holdings where option 3 laid down in point 2.2.2(d) has been implemented. If a case of atypical scrapie is confirmed during this two-year period the holding shall also be subject to the measures referred to in point 2.2.3.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 630/2013 of 28 June 2013 amending the Annexes 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)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/772 of 11 June 2020 amending Annexes I, VII and VIII to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards eradication measures for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in goats and endangered breeds (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Annex 7 Ch. B point 4.2 substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/170, reg. 2(51) (as substituted 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)(q))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Annex 7 Ch. B point 4.3(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/170, reg. 2(51a)(i) (as substituted 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)(q))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Annex 7 Ch. B point 4.3(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/170, reg. 2(51a)(ii) (as substituted 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)(q))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Annex 7 Ch. B point 4.4 substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/170, reg. 2(52) (as substituted 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)(q))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Annex 7 Ch. B point 4.5 substituted (13.12.2022) by The Animals and Animal Health, Feed and Food, Plants and Plant Health (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1315), regs. 1(1), 14(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Annex 7 Ch. B point 4.6 omitted (E.) (1.4.2025) by virtue of The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/249), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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