The Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) Regulations 1996

PART I CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY

1.  The herd shall be an all beef herd.

2.  Any other beef herd in the same ownership or kept on the same holding shall be managed as a separate herd, so that none of the following are common to the herds; calving facilities, housing or grazing, or bulls, if used. Separate records shall be kept under the Bovine Animals (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1995.

3.  No animals kept, reared and used for milk production shall have been present on the same holding within the seven years prior to the application.

4.  Any animals born or reared in a dairy herd shall be removed from the herd before it is registered.

5.  There shall have been no confirmed cases of BSE—

(a) in the herd;

(b) in any animal originating from the herd; or

(c) in any herd to which animals now in the herd to which the application relates have ever belonged.

6.  The herd shall have been in existence for four years, which shall be verifiable from farm records.

7.  Over the seven year period prior to the date of application, to the best of the applicant’s knowledge no animal in the herd shall have been fed any feed containing meat and bone meal. In order to satisfy himself on this point the applicant shall make all necessary enquiries of suppliers of feed to the holding.

8.  Over the four year period prior to the date of application, no animal in the herd shall have been fed any compound feed other than—

(a) home mixed feed using no meat and bone meal; or

(b) proprietary feed from a mill which only produced feed for ruminants.