SCHEDULE 4Control and eradication of TSE in sheep and goats

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Action following confirmation of TSE in goats7

1

If it is confirmed that a suspect goat, or a body of a goat monitored under Annex III to the Community TSE Regulation, has a TSE, the Scottish Ministers, after carrying out the inquiry specified in Article 13(1)(b) of that Regulation and in point 1(b) of Annex VII to that Regulation, shall serve on the occupier of the holding a notice of their intention to cause to be killed and destroyed all the goats on the holding and all embryos and ova from those animals in accordance with Article 13(1)(c) of, and point 2(b)(i) of Annex VII, to that Regulation.

2

The appeals procedure in regulation 10 applies.