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Article 1

United Kingdom

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Regulation (EC) No 716/96 is amended as follows:

  1. 1..

    in Article 1, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

    ‘1.

    The United Kingdom competent authority shall be authorised to purchase any bovine animal born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1 August 1996, which does not show any clinical sign of BSE, presented to it by any producer or his agent, which was, during a period of at least six months prior to its sale, present on a holding located on the territory of the United Kingdom.’

  2. 2..

    Article 2 is amended as follows:

    1. (a)

      Paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

      ‘1.

      The price to be paid to producers or their agents by the United Kingdom competent authority pursuant to Article 1(1) shall be:

      • EUR 360 per animal for purchases made until 31 December 2006,

      • EUR 324 per animal for purchases made during the period from 1 January 2007 until 31 December 2007,

      • EUR 292 per animal for purchases made during the period from 1 January 2008 until 31 December 2008.’

    2. (b)

      paragraph 2 is deleted.

    3. (c)

      the first subparagraph of paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:

      ‘For each purchased animal destroyed in accordance with the provisions in Article 1, the Community shall co-finance the expenditure incurred by the United Kingdom for the purchases referred to under Article 1(1) at a rate of:

      • EUR 180 per animal for purchases made until 31 December 2006,

      • EUR 162 per animal for purchases made during the period from 1 January 2007 until 31 December 2007,

      • EUR 146 per animal for purchases made during the period from 1 January 2008 until 31 December 2008.’

    4. (d)

      paragraph 4 is deleted.