The Animal By-Products (Scotland) Regulations 2003

PART 4Mammalian blood(1)

1.  By way of derogation from Annex VII, Chapter II, paragraph 1 to the Community Regulation, mammalian blood may be processed in accordance with this Part.

2.  The Scottish Ministers may approve the use of processing methods 2 to 5 or 7 of Annex V to the Community Regulation for the processing of mammalian blood.

3.—(1) Approval shall be suspended immediately if the conditions under which it was granted are not fulfilled.

(2) Once suspended, the approval shall only be reinstated subject to fulfilment of the requirements of the Community Regulation in their entirety.

(3) Any material not processed in accordance with this Part or the Community Regulation shall be disposed of as instructed by an inspector.

4.  The approval shall only be granted if the operator was processing at those premises, using that equipment and using those methods on 1st November 2002.

5.  All other relevant provisions of the Community Regulation must be complied with.

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This Part of the Schedule implements Commission Decision 2003/321/EC on transitional measures under Regulation (EC) No. 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the processing standards mammalian blood, O.J. No. L 117, 13.5.2003, p. 30.