{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1041/annex", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1041/annex.json", "legislation": "eur/2006/1041", "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1041/2006 of 7 July 2006 amending Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards monitoring of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in ovine animals (Text with EEA relevance)", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1041", "path": "annex", "kind": "annex", "number": null, "heading": null, "text": "In Part II of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 points 2 and 3 of Chapter A are replaced by the following:\n‘2.\nMonitoring in ovine and caprine animals slaughtered for human consumption\n(a)\nOvine animals\nMember States shall test healthy slaughtered ovine animals in accordance with the minimum sample sizes listed in Table A of this point and the sampling rules set out in point 4.\nTable A\nMinimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the number of healthy slaughtered ovine animals and are intended to provide achievable targets. The minimum sample sizes above 30 000 allow the detection of a prevalence of 0,003 % with a 95 % confidence.\nMember State\nMinimum sample size in healthy slaughtered ovine animals\nGermany\n37 500\nGreece\n23 000\nSpain\n41 800\nFrance\n42 400\nIreland\n40 500\nItaly\n43 700\nthe Netherlands\n23 300\nAustria\n14 300\nPoland\n23 300\nPortugal\n14 300\nUnited Kingdom\n44 000\nOther Member States\nall\nBy way of derogation from the minimum sample sizes listed in Table A Cyprus may decide to test only a minimum of two ovine animals sent for slaughter for human consumption from every flock where no TSE cases have been registered.\n(b)\nCaprine animals\nMember States shall test healthy slaughtered caprine animals in accordance with the minimum sample sizes listed in Table B of this point and the sampling rules set out in point 4.\nTable B\nMinimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the number of healthy slaughtered caprine animals and the prevalence of BSE in the individual Member State. They are also intended to provide achievable targets. The minimum sample sizes above 60 000 allow the detection of a prevalence of 0,0017 % with a 95 % confidence.\nMember State\nMinimum sample size in healthy slaughtered caprine animals\nGreece\n20 000\nSpain\n125 500\nFrance\n93 000\nItaly\n60 000\nCyprus\n5 000\nAustria\n5 000\nOther Member States\nall\n(c)\nWhere a Member State experiences difficulty in collecting sufficient numbers of healthy slaughtered ovine or caprine animals to reach its allotted minimum sample size established in points (a) and (b), it may choose to replace a maximum of 50 % of its minimum sample size by testing dead ovine or caprine animals over the age of 18 months at the ratio of one to one and in addition to the minimum sample size set out in point 3. In addition a Member State may choose to replace a maximum of 10 % of its minimum sample size by testing ovine or caprine animals killed in the framework of a disease eradication campaign over the age of 18 months at the ratio of one to one.\n3.\nMonitoring in ovine and caprine animals not slaughtered for human consumption\nMember States shall test in accordance with the sampling rules set out in point 4 and the minimum sample sizes indicated in Table C and Table D, ovine and caprine animals which have died or been killed, but which were not:\nkilled in the framework of a disease eradication campaign, or\nslaughtered for human consumption.\nTable C\nMinimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the ovine and caprine populations in the individual Member States and are intended to provide achievable targets.\nMember State population of ewes and ewe lambs put to the ram\nMinimum sample size of dead ovine animals\n> 750 000\n20 000\n100 000-750 000\n3 000\n40 000-100 000\n100 % up to 1 000\n< 40 000\n100 % up to 200\nTable D\nMinimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the ovine and caprine populations in the individual Member States and are intended to provide achievable targets.\nMember State population of goats which have already kidded and goats mated\nMinimum sample size of dead caprine animals\n> 750 000\n10 000\n250 000-750 000\n3 000\n40 000-250 000\n100 % up to 1 000\n< 40 000\n100 % up to 200\n’", "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.", "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "footnote", "label": "f1", "text": "Minimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the number of healthy slaughtered ovine animals and are intended to provide achievable targets. The minimum sample sizes above 30 000 allow the detection of a prevalence of 0,003 % with a 95 % confidence." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f2", "text": "Minimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the number of healthy slaughtered caprine animals and the prevalence of BSE in the individual Member State. They are also intended to provide achievable targets. The minimum sample sizes above 60 000 allow the detection of a prevalence of 0,0017 % with a 95 % confidence." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f3", "text": "Minimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the ovine and caprine populations in the individual Member States and are intended to provide achievable targets." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f4", "text": "Minimum sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the ovine and caprine populations in the individual Member States and are intended to provide achievable targets." } ], "outstanding_effects": [], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2006/1041/annex", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:53:36.931847+00:00" }, "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0", "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/", "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives." }