(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which extend to Scotland only, amend the Specified Risk Material Order 1997 (“the Order”). 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 article 4(1) of the Order into line with the definition of specified risk material in the Commission Decision by including 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 in relation to these Regulations has not been prepared.