The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2008

Retention of bodies of bovine animals pending test results

1D.  An approved sampling site to which the body of a bovine animal has been sent for sampling in accordance with this Part must retain it in accordance with point 6(3) of Annex III to the Community TSE Regulation, and failure to do so is an offence; and

(b)after paragraph 4 insert—

Approved sampling sites

4A.(1) The Welsh Ministers must on application approve a sampling site to sample animals to which paragraph 1A applies if satisfied that the sampling site has adequate control procedures to carry out the sampling.

(2) An “approved sampling site” (“safle samplu a gymeradwywyd”) in this Part means a sampling site approved under this paragraph or a sampling site in another part of the United Kingdom approved by the competent authority to carry out sampling for the same purpose..