Explanatory note

(This Note is not part of the Order)

This Order adds meat recovered by mechanical means from the vertebral column of a bovine animal to the list of animal products the export of which to destinations outside the European Community is prohibited by the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994, except where the goods are not intended for human consumption.

The Order also—

(a)

brings the definition of “bovine offal” in the 1994 Order into line with the definition of “specified bovine offal” in the Specified Bovine Offal Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/1928);

(b)

removes the prohibition contained in the 1994 Order on the export of certain live animals from Northern Ireland to member states of the European Community other than Ireland;

(c)

removes references to the United Nations Protected Areas in Croatia from the exclusions in the 1994 Order from the provisions in that Order on goods in transit.