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The Bovine Products (Restriction on Placing on the Market) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005
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- 2005 No. 439
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1. These Regulations give effect to Article 1.1 of Commission Decision 2005/598/EC prohibiting the placing on the market of products derived from bovine animals born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996 for any purpose and exempting such animals from certain control and eradication measures laid down in Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 (O.J. No. L204, 5.8.2005. p. 22).
2. Article 1.1 of Commission Decision 2005/598/EC provides that certain products derived from bovine animals born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996 may not be placed on the market.
3. That prohibition is given effect by regulation 3 of these Regulations.
4. These Regulations also—
(a)apply with modifications certain provisions of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (1991 No. 762 (N.I. 7)) for the purposes of these Regulations (regulation 4);
(b)provide for the inspection and seizure of products that are suspected of having been placed on the market in contravention of regulation 3 of these Regulations (regulation 5);
(c)create offences and penalties (regulation 6);
(d)make provision for their enforcement (regulation 7);
(e)make an amendment to regulation 3 of the Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 418) that is consequential on regulation 3 of these Regulations and regulation 10A(5) of the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002 No. 225), inserted by regulation 5 of the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005 No. 436) (regulation 8); and
(f)revoke the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (S.R. 1996 No. 404) (regulation 9).
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