(This note is not part of the Regulations)
1. These Regulations amend the Bovine Products (Restriction on Placing on the Market) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005 No. 515) by—N.I.
(a)updating the definitions of certain Community instruments that are referred to in those Regulations (regulation 2(2)(a) and (3)); and
(b)substituting a reference to the Commission Decision that has repealed and replaced an earlier Commission Decision for the reference to that earlier Decision that appears in those Regulations (regulation 2(2(b)).
2. The Bovine Products (Restriction on Placing on the Market) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 gave effect in relation to Northern Ireland to Article 1.1 of Commission Decision 2005/598/EC prohibiting the placing on the market of products derived from bovine animals born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996 for any purpose and exempting such animals from certain control and eradication measures laid down in Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 (OJ No. L204, 5.8.2005, p.22). Article 1.1 of Commission Decision 2005/598/EC provided that certain products derived from bovine animals born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996 could not be placed on the market.N.I.
3. Commission Decision 2005/598/EC has now been repealed and replaced by Commission Decision 2007/411/EC prohibiting the placing on the market of products derived from bovine animals born or reared within the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996 for any purpose and exempting such animals from certain control and eradication measures laid down in Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 and repealing Commission Decision 2005/598/EC (OJ No. L155, 15.6.2007, p.74).N.I.
4. Article 1.1 of Commission Decision 2007/411/EC is in identical terms to Article 1.1 of Commission Decision 2005/598/EC and the Bovine Products (Placing on the Market) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 as amended by these Regulations give effect in relation to Northern Ireland to Article 1.1 of Commission Decision 2007/411/EC.N.I.