The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) Regulations 2008

Confirmation of BSE in sheep or goats

8.—(1) This paragraph applies if TSE is confirmed in a suspect sheep or goat, or a body of a sheep or goat monitored under Annex III to the Community TSE Regulation, and BSE cannot be excluded by the results of a ring trial carried out in accordance with the procedure set out in Chapter C, point 3(2)(c) of Annex X to that Regulation.

(2) The Welsh Ministers, after carrying out the inquiry specified in Article 13(1)(b) of the Community TSE Regulation and point 1(b) of Annex VII to that Regulation, must serve a notice on the occupier of the holding informing them of the Welsh Ministers' intention to have the animals killed and destroyed, and the embryos and ova destroyed, in accordance with Article 13(1)(c), and point 2(3)(a) of Annex VII to that Regulation.

(3) The appeals procedure in regulation 10 applies.