Paragraph 2 Administration under the cascade

If there is no authorised veterinary medicinal product in the United Kingdom for a condition the veterinary surgeon responsible for the animal may, to avoid unacceptable suffering, treat the animal concerned with the following (“the cascade”), cascaded in the following order—

In the case of a veterinary medicinal product imported from another member State, if the veterinary surgeon has not obtained a certificate from the Secretary of State under regulation 25(5) permitting him to import it, he must obtain a certificate from the Secretary of State before he administers it.

For the purposes of this paragraph a food-producing animal includes an animal belonging to the equidae family unless it has been declared, in accordance with Commission Decisions 93/623/EEC (establishing the identification document (passport) accompanying registered equidae^f1) and 2000/68/EC (amending Decision 93/623/EEC and establishing the identification of equidae for breeding and production^f2), as not being intended for slaughter for human consumption.

Any pharmacologically active substances included in a medicinal product administered to a food-producing animal under the cascade must be listed in Annex I, II or III to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2377/90.