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Annex III

United Kingdom

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In Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 28/2012, the model health certificate for import into the European Union of composite products intended for human consumption is amended as follows:

  1. (1)

    In Point II.2.A of Part II, Health Information, point (E) is replaced by the following:

    1. (E)

      ‘If containing material from bovine, ovine or caprine animals, the fresh meat and/or intestines used in the preparation of the meat products and/or treated intestines shall be subject to the following conditions depending on the BSE risk category of the country of origin:

    2. (1) [(E.1)

      for imports from a country or a region classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC as a country or region posing a negligible BSE risk:

      1. 1..

        the animals, from which the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin are derived, have passed ante mortem and post mortem inspection;

      2. 2..

        the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin do not contain and are not derived from specified risk material as defined in point 1 of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council (11);

      3. 3..

        the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin do not contain and are not derived from mechanically separated meat obtained from the bones of bovine, ovine or caprine animals, except for products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin derived from animals that were born, continuously reared and slaughtered in a country or region classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC as a country or region posing a negligible BSE risk in which there have been no BSE indigenous cases;

      4. 4..

        the animals, from which the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin are derived, were not slaughtered after stunning by means of gas injected into the cranial cavity or killed by the same method or slaughtered by laceration after stunning of central nervous tissue by means of an elongated rod-shaped instrument introduced into the cranial cavity, except if the animals were born, continuously reared and slaughtered in a country or region classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC as a country or region posing a negligible BSE risk;

      5. 5..

        if the animals, from which the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin are derived, originate from a country or region classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC as posing an undetermined BSE risk, those animals were not fed with meat-and-bone meal or greaves, as defined in the Terrestrial Animal Health Code of the World Organisation for Animal Health, and the products were produced and handled in a manner which ensures that it did not contain and was not contaminated with nervous and lymphatic tissues exposed during the deboning process.]

    3. (1) or [(E2)

      for imports from a country or a region classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC as a country or region posing a controlled BSE risk;

      1. 1.

        the animals, from which the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin are derived, have passed ante mortem and post mortem inspection and were not 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;

      2. 2.

        the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin do not contain and are not derived from specified risk material as defined in point 1 of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, or mechanically separated meat obtained from the bones of bovine, ovine or caprine animals.

      3. (1) (4) 3.

        In the case of intestines originally sourced from a country or a region with a negligible BSE risk, imports of treated intestines have been subject to the following conditions:

        1. (a)

          the country or region was classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC as a country or region posing a controlled BSE risk;

        2. (b)

          the animals, from which the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin are derived, were born, continuously reared and slaughtered in the country or region with a negligible BSE risk and have passed ante mortem and post mortem inspections;

        3. (1) (c)

          if the intestines are sourced from a country or region where there have been BSE indigenous cases:

          1. (i)

            the animals were born after the date from which the ban on the feeding of ruminants with meat-and-bone meal and greaves derived from ruminants was enforced; or

          2. (ii)

            the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin do not contain and are not derived from specified risk material as defined in point 1 of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001.]

    4. (1) or [(E.3)

      for imports from a country or a region classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC as a country or region with an undetermined BSE risk:

      1. 1.

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

      2. 2.

        the animals, from which the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin are derived, were not 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. 3.

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

        1. (a)

          specified risk material as defined in point 1 of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;

        2. (b)

          nervous and lymphatic tissues exposed during the deboning process;

        3. (c)

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

      4. (1) (4) 4.

        In the case of intestines originally sourced from a country or a region with a negligible BSE risk, imports of treated intestines have been subject to the following conditions:

        1. (a)

          the country or region was classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC as a country or region posing a undetermined BSE risk;

        2. (b)

          the animals, from which the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin are derived, were born, continuously reared and slaughtered in the country or region with a negligible BSE risk and have passed ante mortem and post mortem inspections;

        3. (1) (c)

          if the intestines are sourced from a country or region where there have been BSE indigenous cases:

          1. (i)

            the animals were born after the date from which the ban on the feeding of ruminants with meat-and-bone meal and greaves derived from ruminants was enforced; or

          2. (ii)

            the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin do not contain and are not derived from specified risk material as defined in point 1 of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001.]’

  2. (2)

    In Part II of the Notes, the following footnote (11) is added:

    ‘(11)

    The removal of specified risk material is not required if the products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin derive from animals born, continuously reared and slaughtered in a third country or region of a third country classified in accordance with Decision 2007/453/EC as posing a negligible BSE risk.’