These Regulations, which extend to Scotland only, amend the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997 (“the principal Regulations”). They give effect to Article 1.1 of Commission Decision 2001/2/EC (O.J. No. L 1, 4.1.01, p.21), which amends Commission Decision 2000/418/EC (O.J. No. L 158, 30.6.00, p.76).

The principal amendment is to bring the definition of specified bovine material in regulation 4(1) of the principal Regulations into line with the definition of specified risk material in the Commission Decision by including the intestines of any bovine animal (which has died or was slaughtered elsewhere than in Australia or New Zealand) as specified risk material.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment, which includes an assessment of the effect that these Regulations would have on business costs, has been prepared and has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies may be obtained from the Food Standards Agency, 6th Floor, St Magnus House, 25 Guild Street, Aberdeen AB11 6NJ.