CHAPTER III

PREVENTION OF TSE

Breeding Programmes
Article 6a
1
Appropriate 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.
2
The appropriate authority may by regulations provide for ovine breeding programmes to select breeds that show evidence of resistance to TSEs.
3
... The scientific results and overall consequences of the breeding programmes shall be evaluated regularly, and where necessary, those programmes shall be amended accordingly.
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).
Words in Art. 6a(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(5)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 6a(3) 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(5)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Art. 6a(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 4(6) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)