CHAPTER III

PREVENTION OF TSE

Monitoring system
Article 6
1
The appropriate authority
shall carry out an annual monitoring programme for TSEs based on active and passive surveillance in accordance with Annex III. If available for the animal species, that programme shall include a screening procedure using rapid tests.
Rapid tests shall be approved for that purpose in accordance with
any regulations made under Article 24
and listed in Annex X.
1a
The annual monitoring programme referred to in paragraph 1 must cover as a minimum the subpopulations listed in Article 2(1) of Commission Decision 2009/719.
The first subparagraph of this paragraph 1a does not prevent the exercise by the appropriate authority of any power to disapply the requirement for the annual monitoring programme with respect to animals mentioned in that point in remote areas with a low animal density, where no collection of dead animals takes place, provided that the total number of animals excluded from the monitoring programme in the United Kingdom as a whole is not more than 10% of the bovine population in the United Kingdom.
1b
Annual monitoring programmes may be revised by the appropriate authority to determine the effectiveness of the measures in place and ensure protection of human and animal health based on a comprehensive risk analysis.
2
The Secretary of State must inform the OIE of the emergence of a TSE other than BSE.
3
All official investigations and laboratory examinations shall be recorded in accordance with Annex III, Chapter B.
4
The appropriate authority must, where possible, submit to their relevant Parliament an annual report covering at least the information referred to in Annex III, Chapter B, Part I. The report for each calendar year shall be submitted at the latest by 31 March of the following year. ...
5
Rules for the implementation of this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 24(2).
Inserted by Regulation (EC) No 1923/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (Text with EEA relevance).
Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 1923/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (Text with EEA relevance).
Words in Art. 6(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and Animal By-Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/170), regs. 1, 2(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 6(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and Animal By-Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/170), regs. 1, 2(4)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 6(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and Animal By-Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/170), regs. 1, 2(4)(c)(i) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 20(2)(c)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 6(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and Animal By-Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/170), regs. 1, 2(4)(c)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 6(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 4(5)(a) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 6(1a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 4(5)(b)(i) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 6(1a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 4(5)(b)(ii) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Art. 6(1b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 4(5)(c) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)