The TSE (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2006

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Regulations amend the TSE (Scotland) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/255) (“the principal Regulations”) which gave effect in Scotland to the enforcement and administration of Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalophies (O.J. No. L 147, 31.5.01, p.1) (“the Community TSE Regulation”).

The Regulations apply a derogation available to member States in point 13 of Annex XI of the Community TSE Regulation.

They provide that the occupier of a slaughterhouse may consign the un split carcase of a sheep or goat over the age of 12 months or which had at least one permanent incisor erupted through the gum at the time of slaughter to a cutting premises in another member State, provided that the Food Standards Agency has entered into a written agreement with the competent authority of that member State. Dispatch of the carcase must be in accordance with that agreement (regulation 3(b)).

The Regulations disapply or amend provisions of the principal Regulations relating to the transport, possession and placing on the market of carcases which contain specified risk material to carcases consigned to a cutting premises in another member State (regulation 3(d)).

They also give inspectors or persons assisting such inspectors power to issue written directions to the occupier of a slaughterhouse requiring the proper dispatch of un-split carcases (regulation 4).

They also amend regulation 33(2)(b) of the principal Regulations to make provision for the removal of specified risk material from sheep and goats (regulation 3(a)).