The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) Regulations 2018 No. 968 (W. 195) xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
Introductory Text
PART 1 General Provisions
1.Title, application and commencement
2.Interpretation
3.Appointment of competent authority
4.Animals intended for research
PART 2 TSE Controls
5.The TSE Requirements
6.Application of the Schedules
PART 3 Administration and Enforcement
7.Approvals, authorisations, licences or registrations
8.Occupier’s duty
9.Suspension and amendment
10.Revocations of approvals, authorisations, licences or registrations
11.Appeals procedure
12.Valuations
13.Appointment of inspectors
14.Powers of entry
15.Powers of inspectors
16.Notices
17.Service of notices
18.Notices restricting movement
19.Other offences
20.Penalties
21.Corporate offences
22.Enforcement
23.Consequential amendments
24.Revocations
25.Transitional provisions
Signature
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
The TSE requirements
SCHEDULE 2
TSE monitoring and approval of laboratories
1.Delivery of the body of a bovine animal for the purpose of monitoring
2.Destruction without sampling
3.Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (approved sampling sites)
4.Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (slaughterhouses)
5.Approval of testing laboratories
6.Approved sampling sites
7.Retention of products and disposal
8.TSE sampling of ovine, caprine and cervid animals
9.Compensation
SCHEDULE 3
Control and eradication of TSE in bovine animals
1.Notification
2.Restriction on movements pending investigation
3.Killing of a suspect animal
4.Identification and restriction of other bovines, cohorts and offspring
5.Action following confirmation
6.Death while under restriction
7.Placing on the market of bovine progeny
8.Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal
9.When compensation is payable
10.Compensation based on average market price
11.Exceptions: compensation based on market value
SCHEDULE 4
Control and eradication of TSE in ovine and caprine animals
1.Notification
2.Restriction on movements pending investigation
3.Killing of a suspect animal
4.Movement restrictions
5.Confirmation of TSE (excluding BSE and atypical scrapie) in ovine or caprine animals
6.Inability to exclude BSE in ovine or caprine animals
7.Confirmation of atypical scrapie in ovine or caprine animals (BSE and classical scrapie excluded)
8.Killing and destruction following confirmation
9.Infected animals from another holding
10.Common grazing
11.Multiple flocks or herds on a holding
12.Subsequent occupiers
13.Death while under restriction
14.Placing on the market of progeny of ovine and caprine animals
15.Compensation for an ovine or caprine animal killed as a suspect animal or on confirmation of any TSE
16.Valuations
17.Compensation for milk and milk products compulsorily destroyed
SCHEDULE 5
Control and eradication of TSE in animals that are not bovine, ovine or caprine
1.Notification
2.Restriction of a notified animal
3.Killing of a suspect animal
4.Compensation
SCHEDULE 6
Feedingstuffs
PART 1 Restrictions on feeding proteins to animals
1.Prohibition on feeding animal protein
2.Movement prohibitions and restrictions
3.Killing of animals
4.Compensation
5.Restriction and disposal of unlawful feedingstuffs
PART 2 Production of protein and feedingstuffs
6.Premises producing compound feed intended for non-ruminant farmed animals
7.Fishmeal intended for non-ruminant farmed animals
8.Dicalcium and tricalcium phosphates intended for non-ruminant farmed animals
9.Blood products intended for non-ruminant farmed animals
10.Processed animal protein other than fishmeal and processed animal protein derived from farmed insects for feeding to aquaculture animals
11.Processed animal protein derived from farmed insects for feeding to aquaculture animals
12.Milk replacers containing fishmeal for feeding to unweaned ruminants
13.Processed animal protein, including fishmeal, derived from non-ruminants
14.Feed materials and compound feed
15.Export of processed animal protein to third countries
SCHEDULE 7
Specified risk material, mechanically separated meat and slaughtering techniques
1.Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority
2.Training
3.Mechanically separated meat
4.Pithing
5.Tongue harvesting
6.Head meat harvesting
7.Removal of specified risk material
8.Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse
9.Ovine and caprine animals in a slaughterhouse
10.Bovine, ovine and caprine animals in other places of slaughter
11.Young lamb and goat stamps
12.Removal of spinal cord from ovine and caprine animals
13.Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency
14.Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)
15.Carcases from a Member State
16.Staining and disposal of specified risk material
17.Security of specified risk material
18.Prohibition on the sale, supply or possession for sale or supply of specified risk material for human consumption
SCHEDULE 8
Restrictions on placing on the market and export
1.Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine products
2.Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine animals
Explanatory Note