The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) (No. 3) Order 2000
Title, extent and commencement1.
This Order may be cited as the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) (No. 3) Order 2000, shall extend to England and shall come into force on 19th January 2001.
Amendment of the Specified Risk Material Order 19972.
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In this Order, “specified bovine material” means—
(a)
the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum of any bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died elsewhere than in Australia or New Zealand;
(b)
the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 6 months—
(i)
the entire head (excluding the tongue but including the brain, eyes, trigeminal ganglia and tonsils),
(ii)
the thymus,
(iii)
the spleen,
(iv)
the spinal cord; and
(v)
(in relation to such an animal which was slaughtered or has died at an age greater than 30 months, other than a bovine animal which was accompanied at the time of slaughter by a slaughter certificate issued under the Beef Assurance Scheme as described in Schedule 1 to the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) Regulations 19963), the vertebral column, including dorsal root ganglia; and(c)
the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died at an age greater than 12 months elsewhere than in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Australia or New Zealand—
(i)
the skull (including the brains and eyes),
(ii)
the tonsils, and
(iii)
the spinal cord.”.
Revocation of the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Order 20003.
This Order, which has effect in England, amends the Specified Risk Material Order 1997 and revokes the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Order 2000. It gives effect in England to article 1 of the Commission Decision 2001/2/EC (OJ No. LI, 4.1.2001, p.21) adopted on 27th December 2000 which amends Commission Decision 2000/418/EC (OJ No. L158, 30.6.2000, p. 76) regulating the use of material presenting risk as regards transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. The Order brings the definition of specified risk material into line with that contained in this Commission Decision.
A Regulatory Impact Assessment in relation to this Order has not been prepared.