# The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and Animal By-Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, Regulation 4: Commission Decision 2009/719/EC authorising certain Member States to revise their annual BSE monitoring programmes

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Commission Decision 2009/719/EC authorising certain Member States to revise their annual BSE monitoring programmes is amended as follows.
(2) For Article 1 substitute—
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1 The appropriate authority may revise their annual monitoring programmes as provided for in Article 6(1b) of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001.
2 In this Decision, “appropriate authority” means:
(a) in relation to England, the Secretary of State;
(b) in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;
(c) in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .”.
(3) In Article 2—
(a) in paragraph 1, in the words before point (a), for “Member States” substitute “ countries and territories ”;
(b) in paragraph 2—
(i) for “Member States” substitute “ countries or territories ”;
(ii) for the words from “in another” to “performed” substitute “ , the age limits for testing in force in Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man ”.
(c) in paragraph 3, for the words from “from 1 January” to “Annex” substitute “ the appropriate authority ”.
(4) Omit Articles 3 and 4.
(5) In the Annex, in the heading, for “Member States” substitute “ countries ”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/170/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-and-animal-by-products-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-4
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