Paragraph 13 Authorisation of cutting plants by Food Standards ScotlandF3
Scotland
If Food Standards Scotland is satisfied that the provisions of Annex 5 to the EUTSE Regulation and this schedule will be complied with, Food Standards Scotland may authorise a cutting plant to:
remove those parts of the vertebral column of bovine animals that are specified risk material;
remove the spinal cord from sheep and goats aged over 12 months at slaughter, or that have a permanent incisor erupted through the gum; and
harvest the head meat from bovine animals in accordance with point 9 of Annex V.
if the Agency is satisfied that the provisions of Annex V to the EU TSE Regulation (specified risk material) and this Schedule will be complied with.
The procedures in regulations 6, 8, 9 and 10 apply, with references to the Scottish Ministers being construed as references to the F2Food Standards Scotland.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Sch. 7 para. 13(1) substituted (23.5.2019) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/118), regs. 1, 9(8)
- F2
Words in sch. 7 para. 13(2) substituted (1.4.2015) by The Food (Scotland) Act 2015 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/100), arts. 1(2), 2, sch. para. 26
- F3
Sch. 7 para. 13 heading substituted (1.4.2015) by The Food (Scotland) Act 2015 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/100), arts. 1(2), 2, sch. para. 26