Article 44 Specific conditions for authorising movements for slaughter of kept animals of listed species within, from and to the surveillance zone
United Kingdom
The competent authority may authorise movements of kept animals of listed species originating in the surveillance zone to a slaughterhouse located:
as near as possible to the establishment of origin, within the restricted zone; or
outside the restricted zone, as near as possible to the surveillance zone, when it is not possible to slaughter the animals in the restricted zone, and after carrying out a risk assessment.
The meat obtained from animals referred to in paragraph 1 shall be subject to the measures provided for in Article 49.
The competent authority may authorise movements of kept animals of listed species originating outside the surveillance zone to a slaughterhouse situated in the surveillance zone.
The competent authority may authorise the processing and use of animal by-products, obtained from animals slaughtered in accordance with paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 as category 3 material in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 in a plant approved for processing or disposal of animal by-products, located on their territory, or in another Member State, where it is not feasible to process or dispose them in an approved plant in the territory of the Member State where the outbreak occurred.
In case the animal by-products referred to in the first subparagraph are moved to a plant located in another Member State, the Member State of destination and the Member States of passage shall authorise such dispatch and the competent authority of destination shall authorise the processing and use of those animal by-products as category 3 material in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009.