F2Appropriate authorities may confer together and with expert scientists to introduce breeding programmes to select for resistance to TSEs in their ovine populations. Those programmes shall include a framework to recognise the TSE-resistant status of certain flocks and may be extended to include other animal species based on scientific evidence corroborating the resistance to TSE of particular genotypes of those species.

The appropriate authority may by regulations provide for ovine breeding programmes to select breeds that show evidence of resistance to TSEs.

F4... The scientific results and overall consequences of the breeding programmes shall be evaluated regularly, and where necessary, those programmes shall be amended accordingly.